Ghazi Shaheed

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Ghazi Shaheed
PNS Ghazi 134 DN-SC-92-03633.JPEG
The PNS Ghazi S-134 was used as fictional Tench class submarine.
Directed by Kazim Pasha [1]
Written byAsad Mohammad Khan [1]
Produced by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)
Starring Shabbir Jan
Mishi Khan
Ayesha Khan
Humayun Saeed
Rizwan Wasti
Adnan Jilani
CinematographyTanweer Malik [1]
Edited byGhulam Qadir Khan [1]
Music byPTV Music
Production
company
PTV Studios
Distributed byTechno Time Production
Release date
  • 6 September 1998 (1998-09-06)(Karachi)
Running time
120 minutes
CountryPakistan
LanguageUrdu

Ghazi Shaheed is a 1998 thriller drama film based on the disasters that befell the PNS Ghazi in the Bay of Bengal. It was directed by Kazim Pasha and stars Shabbir Jan as Commander Zafar Khan and Adnan Jilani as Lieutenant-Commander Pervez Hameed. The film was financed and produced by the ISPR and the Pakistan Navy and was filmed mostly in the Arabian Sea.

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The Tench-class submarine in the U.S. Navy's service as Diablo in 1964. Ussdiablo.jpg
The Tench-class submarine in the U.S. Navy's service as Diablo in 1964.

This film revolves around the crew of PNS Ghazi , and the mysterious loss of this Tench class submarine of Pakistan Navy nearby the Indian coast during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. [2] It ventured into Indian waters to destroy INS Vikrant on the shores of Visakhapatnam. [3] [4] [5] 92 men were killed while serving their country aboard PNS Ghazi, the first Pakistani submarine and also the only one at that time with a long range and the ability to lay mines.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Ghazi Shaheed Cast". Pakistan Drama Library. Archived from the original on 29 March 2016.
  2. Ghazi Shaheed, IMDb (www.imdb.com), 6 September 1998, retrieved 16 September 2025
  3. "Visakhapatnam: Sunk Pakistani submarine Ghazi is an enigma". Deccan Chronicle .
  4. Sumit Bhattacharjee (24 January 2016). "From a small outpost to a major command". The Hindu.
  5. S.N.V. SUDHIR (24 November 2015). "Visakhapatnam: Sunk Pakistani submarine Ghazi is an enigma".