Hasan Hafeez Ahmed

Vice-Admiral Hasan Hafeez Ahmed (Urdu:حسن حفيظ احمد; b. 1926-8 March 1975:329[2]), TQA, usually shortened to H.H. Ahmed, was a three-star rank admiral who served as the first Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) of Pakistan Navy from 1972 until his death in 1975.[2]

Hasan Hafeez Ahmed
Chief of Naval Staff of Pakistan Navy
In office
3 March 1972 – 9 March 1975
Preceded byMuzaffar Hassan
Succeeded byMohammad Shariff
Personal details
Born
Muzaffar Hassan

1926:3[1]
Multan, Punjab, British Indian Empire
Present-day Pakistan
Died1975 (aged 48–49)
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
CitizenshipBritish Subject (1926–1947)
Pakistan (1947–1975
Awards Hilal-i-Quaid-e-Azam
Sitara-e-Pakistan
Tamgha-e-Quaid-e-Azam (1965)
Military service
Nickname(s)H.H. Ahmed
Branch/service Royal Indian Navy (1945–1947)
Pakistan Navy (1947–71)
Years of service1945–1975
Rank Vice-Admiral
UnitNavy Executive Branch
CommandsCommander Coast (COMCOAST)
Comdnt. Cadet College Petaro
Battles/warsWorld War II
  • European Front

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971

Despite appointed to the four-star appointment, he was retained at the three-star rank and took over the command of the Navy from its Commander Vice-Admiral Muzaffar Hassan who was dismissed from the military service.

Biography

Hassan Hafeez Ahmad was born in Multan, Punjab, British India, in 1926.:3[1] in an Arain Family. He was educated in a local school in Multan and was a contemporary of Mansoor Shah who would later joined the Pakistan Air Force in 1947.:288–289[3]

After his high school graduation in 1943, he joined the Royal Indian Navy as a petty officer and participated in World War II.:289[3] In 1945, he joined the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, England where he graduated in 1947.:3[1] Upon returning to British India, he joined the Pakistan Navy and was commissioned as a Sub-Lieutenant.:3[1] He continued his training with the Royal Navy and specialized in technical naval courses from the United Kingdom in 1947-49.:3[1]

In 1964, he attended the Joint Service Defence College in Latimer Buckinghamshire, England, and subsequently graduated with a joint staff degree in 1965.:3[1] Upon his return, he was posted in Ministry of Defence as an undersecretary as a Director of Naval Operations and participated in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965.:3[1] After the war, he was posted to the Pakistan Embassy in Washington D.C. as a military attaché which he remained until 1966.:3[1] In 1970, he was appointed as the first commandant of the Pakistan Naval Academy as a Commodore and was appointed as Commander Coast in 1971 as a Rear-Admiral. :3[1]:235[4]:Annexure[5]

After participating in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 he continued to serve as commander of the coastal defense command but demoted to Commodore in the Navy.:180[6] In 1972, he was elevated as the first Chief of Naval Staff after the dismissal of Muzaffar Hassan. He was the most junior officer and superseded five senior admirals including three Rear-Admirals and two Commodores.:76–77[7]

As a naval chief, his task was to reconstruct and rebuild the navy into a formidable force.:46[8] In a short spa of time, he transformed the Navy into three-dimensional force when he commissioned the naval aviation and commissioning the new Navy NHQ in Rawalpindi in the vicinity of Army GHQ in 1974.:46[8]

On 8 March 1975, he unexpectedly died while serving as naval chief and commanding the navy, at the age of 49.:44[9] He was the first of two chief of staff who died in the office- the other being General Asif Nawaz.

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Military offices
Preceded by
Muzaffar Hassan		 Chief of Naval Staff
1972–1975		 Succeeded by
Mohammad Shariff
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