Hasan Hafeez Ahmed
Hasan Hafeez Ahmed | |
|---|---|
| Chief of Naval Staff of Pakistan Navy | |
| In office 3 March 1972 – 9 March 1975 | |
| Preceded by | Muzaffar Hassan |
| Succeeded by | Mohammad Shariff |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Muzaffar Hassan 1926: 3 [1] Multan, Punjab, British Indian Empire Present-day Pakistan |
| Died | 1975 (aged 48–49) Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan |
| Citizenship | British Subject (1926–1947) Pakistan (1947–1975 |
| Awards |  Hilal-i-Quaid-e-Azam Sitara-e-PakistanTamgha-e-Quaid-e-Azam (1965) |
| Nickname | H.H. Ahmed |
| Military service | |
| Branch/service |  Royal Indian Navy (1945–1947) Pakistan Navy (1947–71) |
| Years of service | 1945–1975 |
| Rank |   Vice-Admiral |
| Unit | Navy Executive Branch |
| Commands | Commander Coast (COMCOAST) Comdnt. Cadet College Petaro |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
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 three-star rank admiral who served as the first Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) of Pakistan Navy from 1972 until his death 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 Vice-Admiral Muzaffar Hassan who was dismissed from the military service.
Biography
Hassan Hafeez Ahmad was born in Multan, Punjab, British India, in 1926.: 3 [1] in an Arain Family. He was educated in a local school in Multan and was a contemporary of Mansoor Shah who would later joined 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 admirals 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 unexpectedly died while serving as naval chief and commanding the navy, at the age of 49.: 44 [9] He was the first of two chief of staff who died in the office- the other being General Asif Nawaz.
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