Biography
Naqvi joined the Pakistan Navy in 1960 whose career mostly spent in the Navy SEALs Teams of the Special Service Group of the Pakistan Navy,having helped in preparing a documentary on SEALs. [2] His military training as a military diver comes from the United States Navy SEALs after 1965.: 280 [3]
He served in the second war in 1965 and Western front of third war with India in 1971,having commanding the SX-404-class submarine as a Lieutenant-Commander. [4] In 1971,Lt-Cdr. Naqvi successfully spied on Indian Navy's movement,notably the INS Kiltan (P79) and INS Katchall (P81). [4]
An order of firing off the torpedo was issued but the SX-404-class failed to struck the Indian Navy's Petya-class frigates;the Indian Navy's flotilla,unaware of being spied and watched on,passed through safely,which he called the captains of the Petya-class as the "lucky ones." [4] After the war,Commander Naqvi served as a Navy SEAL instructor at the Naval Base Iqbal in the Karachi coast,eventually serving as commanding officer of the SX-404-class and overseeing its phasing out from the Navy in the 1990s.: 343 [5] In 1991–93,he was appointed as military attaché at the Pakistan Embassy in Tokyo,Japan.: 21 [6]
In 1993–94,Rear-Admiral Naqvi was assigned to join the Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's administration,eventually taking an assignment as Additional Secretary at the Defense Division of the Ministry of Defense.: 219 [7] In 1994–96,R-Adm. Naqvi later went to serve as the DG Joint Warfare (DG TJ) and DG Training (DG Trig) at the Joint Staff Headquarters.: 344 [5]
In 2000,Vice-Admiral Naqvi was eventually taken as an secondment in the Musharraf administration when he was appointed Chairman of the National Shipping Corporation,which he served till 2007. [8] His tenureship was credited for overseeing the fleet expansion of the National Shipping Corporation. [9] On 21 August 2002,Adm. Naqvi's name was shortlisted and was considered in a race of joining the Aziz administration as an Interior Minister,eventually Faisal Hayat was later confirmed. [10]
After his retirement,he remained associate with the tradition of Navy SEALs,having helped in preparing a documentary on SEALs. [11]
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