Vice Admiral Naveed Ashraf is a Vice admiral and a flag officer in the Pakistan Navy who is currently serving as Vice Chief of the Naval Staff, VCNS at

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in Islamabad. He took the office as Head of Trainning and Personnel branch of the Pakistan Navy. He has also previously served as commandant

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, Vice President of the National Defence University, Naval Secretary, and Deputy Chief of the Naval staff at the

for administration branch.

Career

He graduated from the Pakistan Naval War College, the National Defence University and the

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, US. He obtained his

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from the Royal College of Defence. Ashraf was commissioned in the Pakistan Navy with his first appointment in 1989 at the operations branch. His command assignments includes ''18th'' and ''25th Destroyer Squadron'', in addition to serving as commandant Pakistan Naval Academy. At staff, he was appointed as chief staff officer for

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at the

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, chief instructor of the National Defence University, and captain training at the Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST).

Awards and decorations

Dates Of Rank

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ashraf, Naveed Living people Pakistan Navy officers Graduates of the Royal College of Defence Studies National Defence University, Pakistan alumni Academic staff of Pakistan Military Academy Pakistan Naval War College alumni Naval War College alumni Recipients of Tamgha-e-Basalat Recipients of Hilal-i-Imtiaz Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people)