Vice-Admiral S. Tauqir H. Naqvi (, is a retired three-star rank

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in the

Pakistan Navy ur, ہمارے لیے اللّٰہ کافی ہے اور وہ بہترین کارساز ہے۔ English language, English: Allah is Sufficient for us - and what an excellent (reliable) Trustee (of affairs) is He!(''Quran, Qur'an, Al Imran, 3:173' ...

, politician, and a

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who served as the Chairman of the

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(PNSC) from 2000 until 2007, the longest serving chairman in the national flag carrier's history.

Biography

Naqvi joined the

in 1960 whose career mostly spent in the Navy SEALs Teams of the

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of the

, having helped in preparing a documentary on SEALs. His military training as a military diver comes from the

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after 1965. He served in the second war in 1965 and Western front of third war with

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in 1971, having commanding the ''SX-404-class'' submarine as a

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. In 1971, Lt-Cdr. Naqvi successfully spied on

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's movement, notably the and . An order of firing off the

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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." After the war,

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Naqvi served as a

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instructor at the Naval Base Iqbal in the

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, eventually serving as commanding officer of the ''SX-404-class'' and overseeing its phasing out from the Navy in the 1990s. In 1991–93, he was appointed as

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at the Pakistan Embassy in

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. In 1993–94,

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Naqvi was assigned to join the

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Benazir Bhutto Benazir Bhutto ( ur, بینظیر بُھٹو; sd, بينظير ڀُٽو; Urdu ; 21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 t ...

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, eventually taking an assignment as Additional Secretary at the Defense Division of the

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. In 1994–96, R-Adm. Naqvi later went to serve as the DG

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(DG TJ) and DG Training (DG Trig) at the Joint Staff Headquarters. In 2000, Vice-Admiral Naqvi was eventually taken as an

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in the Musharraf administration when he was appointed

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of the National Shipping Corporation, which he served till 2007. His tenureship was credited for overseeing the fleet expansion of the National Shipping Corporation. On 21 August 2002, Adm. Naqvi's name was shortlisted and was considered in a race of joining the Aziz administration as an

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, eventually Faisal Hayat was later confirmed. After his retirement, he remained associate with the tradition of Navy SEALs, having helped in preparing a documentary on SEALs.

References

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Biography

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