Hasan Hafeez Ahmed

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Vice Admiral
Hasan Hafeez Ahmed
File:Vice Admiral Hasan Hafeez Ahmed.jpg
Chief of Naval Staff of Pakistan Navy
In office
3 March 1972 – 9 March 1975
Preceded byMuzaffar Hassan
Succeeded byMohammad Shariff
Personal details
Born
Hasan Hafeez Ahmed

1926:3[1]
Multan, Punjab, British Indian Empire
Present-day Pakistan
Died1975 (aged 48–49)
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
CitizenshipBritish Subject (1926–1947)
Pakistan (1947–1975)
AwardsYellow Crescent, Symbol of Islam.png Hilal-i-Quaid-e-Azam
Order of Pakistan.png Sitara-e-Pakistan
Tamgha-e-Quaid-e-Azam (1965)
Nickname(s)H.H. Ahmed
Military service
Branch/service Royal Indian Navy (1945–1947)
Naval Jack of Pakistan.svg Pakistan Navy (1947–71)
Years of service1945–1975
RankInsignia Vice Admiral Pakistan Navy.gif Vice-Admiral
UnitNavy Executive Branch
CommandsCommander Coast (COMCOAST)
Comdnt. Cadet College Petaro
Battles/warsWorld War II

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971

Vice-Admiral Hasan Hafeez Ahmed (Urdu:حسن حفيظ احمد; b. 1926-8 March 1975:329[2]), TQA, usually shortened to H.H. Ahmed, was a senior Pakistan Navy officer who served as the first Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) of Pakistan Navy from 1972 until his death from sickness in 1975.[2]

Despite appointed to the four-star appointment, he was retained at the three-star rank and took over the command of the Navy from its Commander-in-Chief Vice-Admiral Muzaffar Hassan who was dismissed from the military service.

Biography[edit]

Hassan Hafeez Ahmad was born in Multan, Punjab, British India, in 1926.:3[1] He was educated in a local school in Multan and was a contemporary of Mansoor Shah who would later join the Pakistan Air Force in 1947.:288–289[3]

After his high school graduation in 1943, he joined the Royal Indian Navy as a petty officer and participated in World War II.:289[3] In 1945, he joined the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, England where he graduated in 1947.:3[1] Upon returning to British India, he joined the Pakistan Navy and was commissioned as a Sub-Lieutenant.:3[1] He continued his training with the Royal Navy and specialized in technical naval courses from the United Kingdom in 1947-49.:3[1]

In 1964, he attended the Joint Service Defence College in Latimer Buckinghamshire, England, and subsequently graduated with a joint staff degree in 1965.:3[1] Upon his return, he was posted in Ministry of Defence as an undersecretary as a Director of Naval Operations and participated in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965.:3[1] After the war, he was posted to the Pakistan Embassy in Washington D.C. as a military attaché which he remained until 1966.:3[1] In 1970, he was appointed as the first commandant of the Pakistan Naval Academy as a Commodore and was appointed as Commander Coast in 1971 as a Rear-Admiral. :3[1]:235[4]:Annexure[5]

After participating in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 he continued to serve as commander of the coastal defense command but demoted to Commodore in the Navy.:180[6] In 1972, he was elevated as the first Chief of Naval Staff after the dismissal of Muzaffar Hassan. He was the most junior officer and superseded five senior's including three Rear-Admirals and two Commodores.:76–77[7]

As a naval chief, his task was to reconstruct and rebuild the navy into a formidable force.:46[8] In a short spa of time, he transformed the Navy into three-dimensional force when he commissioned the naval aviation and commissioning the new Navy NHQ in Rawalpindi in the vicinity of Army GHQ in 1974.:46[8]

On 8 March 1975, he died from sickness unexpectedly while serving as naval chief and commanding the navy, at the age of 49.:44[9] He was the first of two chief's of staff who died in the office- the other being General Asif Nawaz.

Sources[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Martell, Paul; Hayes, Grace P. (1974). World military leaders. Bowker. ISBN 9780835207850. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rizvi, Hasan Askari (2000). The Military & Politics in Pakistan, 1947-1997. Sang-e-Meel Publications. ISBN 9789693511482. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Shah, PAF, Air Commodore Mansoor (2002). The Gold Bird: Pakistan and Its Air Force—Observations of a Pilot. Karachi, [pk]: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195797725. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  4. ↑ Roy, Mihir K. (1995). War in the Indian Ocean. Lancer Publishers. ISBN 9781897829110. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  5. ↑ Cardozo, Major General Ian (December 2006). The Sinking of INS Khukri: Survivor's Stories. Roli Books Private Limited. ISBN 9789351940999. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  6. ↑ Hussain, Syed Shabbir (2000). Ayub, Bhutto, and Zia: How They Fell Victim to Their Own Plans. Sang-e-Meel Publications. ISBN 9789693510805. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  7. ↑ Jafri, Maqsood (2008). The Ideals of Bhutto. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Anwar, Dr Muhammad (27 November 2006). Friends Near Home: Pakistan's Strategic Security Options. AuthorHouse. ISBN 9781467015417. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  9. ↑ Ali, S. Akhtar (1 January 1975). "Death of a Silent Admiral". Pakistan Economist. Vol. 15, no. 1–13. S. Akhtar Ali. Retrieved 3 January 2017.

External links[edit]

Military offices
Preceded by
Muzaffar Hassan 		Chief of Naval Staff
1972–1975 		Succeeded by
Mohammad Shariff

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