United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) is a unified combatant command of the United States Armed Forces responsible for the Indo-Pacific region. It is the oldest and largest of the unified combatant commands. Its commander, the senior U.S. military officer in the Pacific, is responsible for military operations in an area which encompasses more than 100 million square miles (260,000,000 km2), or roughly 52 percent of the Earth's surface, stretching from the waters off the West Coast of the United States to the west coast of India, and from the Arctic to the Antarctic. The U.S. command is also responsible of protecting against an invasion of the United States through the state of Hawaii.
The Pakistan Navy is the naval warfare branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces. It came into existence by transfer of personnel and equipment from the Royal Indian Navy that ceased to exist following the partition of British India through a parliamentary act that established the independence of Pakistan and India from the United Kingdom on 14 August 1947.
The United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM), located in Doral, Florida in Greater Miami, is one of the eleven unified combatant commands in the United States Department of Defense. It is responsible for providing contingency planning, operations, and security cooperation for Central and South America, the Caribbean, their territorial waters, and for the force protection of U.S. military resources at these locations. USSOUTHCOM is also responsible for ensuring the defense of the Panama Canal and the canal area. As explained below, USSOUTHCOM has been under scrutiny due to several human rights and rule of law controversies in which it has been embroiled for nearly a decade.
The PNS/M Ghazi (S–130), SJ, was a Tench-class diesel-electric and the first fast-attack submarine in the Pakistan Navy, leased from the United States in 1963.
United States Naval Forces Europe-Africa (CNE-CNA), is the United States Navy component command of the United States European Command and United States Africa Command. Prior to 2020, CNE-CNA was previously referred to as United States Naval Forces Europe – Naval Forces Africa (NAVEUR-NAVAF).
Admiral Muhammad Afzal Tahir, ; LM, NI(M), HI(M), SI(M), is a retired four-star rank admiral, writer, and the military historian currently serving in the faculty at the Naval War College of Pakistan Navy.
The Pakistan Marines or simply as Pak Marines, is an expeditionary and amphibious warfare uniform service branch within the Pakistan Navy, consisting of the naval officers and other personnel to perform their duties within the Marines. Pakistan Marines are responsible for providing force protection in littorals, using the mobility of the Pakistan Navy to provide creeks defence, ground based air defence and Force protection.
Admiral Iftikhar Ahmed SiroheyNI(M), HI(M), SI(M), SBt, is a retired four-star rank admiral, strategist, and a memoirist who is currently tenuring his fellowship at the Institute of Strategic Studies (ISS) in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Admiral Karamat Rahman Niazi, NI(M), SJ, HI(M), is a retired four-star rank admiral who served as the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) from 1979 to 1983 in Pakistan Navy.
The PNS Qasim is a major marines base that serves as the headquarter of the Pakistan Marines for their administrative, operational and logistic requirements. PNS Qasim, the garrison of Pakistan Marines, is served as the logistic base for the Marines which is responsible for general administration and naval/military logistics requirements. The Pakistan Marines Corps structure is composed of five segments, and the PNS Qasim is part of the Eastern Naval Command of Pakistan Navy. The base is named after the legendary Muslim Arab general Muhammad bin Qasim who conquered Daybul and the coastal areas of Sindh around 712 CE.
The Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971 consisted of a series of naval battles fought between the Indian and Pakistani Navies during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. The battles were a part of the India-Pakistan War and the Bangladesh Liberation War. The series of naval operations began with the Indian Navy exerting pressure from the seas, while the Indian Army and Indian Air Force moved in to close the ring round East Pakistan on land. The naval operations incorporated the naval interdiction, air defence, ground support, and logistics missions.
Operation Madad was a non-combative and assistance military operation commenced and executed by Pakistan Navy after the massive national floods hit the country. Its primary operations were to conduct SAR raids to support affected areas of Pakistan following the 2010 Pakistan floods. Madadwas the major and the largest naval operation commenced by the Pakistan Navy since the 1971 Naval conflict.
The PNS Mehran attack was an attack/shooting by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Al Qaeda which took place on 22 May 2011, at PNS Mehran, the headquarters of the Pakistan Navy's Naval Air Arm and the most populous Pakistani military installation. It is located near the PAF's Faisal Air Force Base of Karachi, Sindh. In the course of the event, 15 attackers killed 18 military personnel and wounded 16 in a sophisticated terrorist attack. Two American-built P-3C Orion surveillance aircraft were destroyed.
AdmiralMohammad Asif Sandila,, is a retired four-star admiral in the Pakistan Navy who was the 14th Chief of Naval Staff of the Pakistan Navy. Prior to this command appointment, Sandila briefly tenured as the Vice Chief of Staff in the Pakistan Navy which he assumed in 2010.
Vice-Admiral Abbas Raza ,HI(m), SI (m), TI(m), is a retired three-star rank admiral in the Pakistan Navy who served as the senior fleet commander in 2010 until retiring in 2012.
The Northern Naval Command, is military command of Pakistan Navy in the Northern Pakistan usually held by a senior officer of Commodore rank. It is currently headquartered in headquarters Commander North which served its regional headquarters and is currently stationed at Naval Complex Islamabad...Commander North reports to the Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff, Administration of its respected command.
The Western Naval Command is a naval military command of the Pakistan Navy usually held by a senior officer of Commodore rank but can sometimes be held by a senior flag officer of two star rank Rear Admiral temporarily depending on the assignment nature and is mainly scattered across the province of Balochistan. It is currently headquartered in the Headquarters Commander West at PNS Akram in Gwadar.
Rear-Admiral Mujeeb Ahmad Khan Lodhi, SJ, TPk, best known as M.A.K. Lodhi, is a retired two-star rank admiral in the Pakistan Navy, a memoirist, and a defence analyst, writing in the News International.
Rear-Admiral Muhammad Moazzam Ilyas, HI(M), SI(M), is a two-star rank admiral in the Pakistan Navy, currently serving as Director General Joint Warfare and Training at Joint Staff Headquarters (JSHQ) since 2019.
Admiral Muhammad Amjad Khan Niazi is the Chief of Naval Staff of Pakistan. He assumed charge on 7 October 2020.
