Karachi Naval Dockyard

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Karachi Naval Dockyard
Part of Logistics Command
Karachi coast, Sindh, Pakistan in Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan
Pakistan Navy emblem.svg
Badge of Pakistan Navy
Site information
TypeLogistics
Owner Ministry of Defence
OperatorNaval Standard of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan Navy
Controlled by Logistics Command
Open to
the public		No
Karachi Naval Dockyard
Site history
Built1947;78 years ago (1947)
Events Cold War
Garrison information
Current
commander		 Rear-Admiral Mazhar Mahmood Malik
Garrison Repairs and Maintenance Group

The Karachi Naval Dockyard (officially: PN Dockyard), or Naval Base Karachi is a principle base for the Pakistan Navy located off the Karachi coast and adjacent to the commercial premises of the KESW Ltd. and the PNS Qasim, the marine base.

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The Karachi Naval Dockyard is also a marine propulsion production base for the Pakistan Navy and has undertaken the shipbuilding and maintenance works on behalf of the Ministry of Defense. [1]

Overview

In 1947, the Pakistan Navy inherited the dockyard from the Royal Navy Dockyard and it was the only naval base that the country had inherited with the division of the British Royal Indian Navy.: 129  At that time, the dockyard was a very small repairing facility with only 500 members of the workforce as its employees.: 130  [2]

In 1952, the scope of the base expanded into navy's full repair and reproduction of British navy's equipment and began to focus on hiring civilian engineers to support the navy's maintenance programs.: 130 . In 1963, Karachi Naval Dockyard was selected as nation's first submarine base when the PNS Ghazi reported for her duty, followed by establishment of the Submarine Training Center in 1964. [3] In 1980, the Submarine Training Center was moved to PNS Bahadur before establishing its own facility as PNS Abdoze in 1990. [3]

The base later moved towards building the ships and the boats for the navy and was termed as navy's weapons production complex. Until 1993, the base's production program was only for the Navy but it was brought under the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in 1994.: 130 

The Karachi Naval Dockyard has designed and built fast missile baots and the police patrol boats as part of its extended programs under the Ministry of Defence (MoD). [1] Since 1990s, the Karachi Naval Dockyard has worked on the Marine propulsion technology and worked on building the propulsion system for the Agosta 90B submarines, Italian-designed and Chinese-designed warships.: 172  [4]

References

  1. 1 2 "GRP Boats by KND" (PDF). depo.gov.pk. Retrieved 6 December 2025.
  2. ↑ Siddiqa-Agha, A. (20 March 2001). Pakistan's Arms Procurement and Military Buildup, 1979-99: In Search of a Policy. Springer. ISBN   978-0-230-51352-5 . Retrieved 6 December 2025.
  3. 1 2 ".: PAKISTAN NAVY :. A Silent Force to Reckon with... [ a 4 dimensional force]". www.paknavy.gov.pk. Retrieved 6 December 2025.
  4. ↑ Arnett, Eric H. (1997). Military Capacity and the Risk of War: China, India, Pakistan, and Iran. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-829281-4 . Retrieved 6 December 2025.
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