Vice Chief of the Naval Staff (Pakistan)


The Vice Chief of the Naval Staff is the post that is, in principle, the deputy and the second-in-command of the Pakistan Navy and is also the most senior Principal Staff Officer at NHQ, reporting and functioning under the Chief of the Naval Staff. This post is usually held by a senior flag officer of Vice Admiral rank.

Office holders

OrderNameRankPhotoAppointment dateLeft officeUnit of commissionDecorations
±Rashid Ahmad Rear-Admiral25 March 196920 December 1971Executive BranchSK, TQA-
1Mohammad Sharif Rear-Admiral19741975Executive BranchHI(M), SI(M), HJ, SJ, SK
Khaled Jamil was chief of naval staff until his retirement in 1956		-
2Leslie Norman Mungavin Rear-Admiral19751977Operations BranchSPk, SK-
3Karamat Rahman Niazi Vice-Admiral19771979Submarine Command SJ, HI(M)-
4Iqbal F. Qadir Vice-Admiral19801983Operations BranchHI(M), TI(M), SBt, TQA-
5Iftikhar Ahmed Sirohey Vice-Admiral19851988 Engineering BranchNI-
6Yastur-ul-Haq Malik Vice-Admiral19881991Surface BranchNI-
7Syed Iqtidar Husain Vice-Admiral19921993Operations BranchNI-
?Mohammad Haroon Vice-Admiral7 Nov 20052007?Operations BranchNI-
?Asaf Humayun Vice-Admiral30 Oct 200826 Dec 2009Operations BranchNI-
?Shahid Iqbal Vice-Admiral30 Dec 200912 Aug 2010Operations BranchNI-
?Asif Sandila Vice-Admiral10 Aug 20106 October 2011Operations BranchNI-
?Tayyab Ali Dogar Vice-AdmiralOctober 20112012?Operations BranchNI-
?Khan Hasham bin Saddique Vice-Admiral10 November 2014?Operations BranchHI, SI -
?Kaleem Shaukat Vice-Admiral?Operations BranchNI-
?Fayyaz Gilani Vice-Admiral17 November 2019Operations Branch-
?Muhammad Amjad Khan Niazi Vice-Admiral?7 October 2020Operations BranchNI-
?Faisal Rasul Lodhi Vice-Admiral3 September 2021Operations Branch-
?Naveed Ashraf Vice-AdmiralMarch 2023October 2023Operations Branch-
Ovais Ahmed Bilgrami Vice-AdmiralOctober 2023IncumbentOperations Branch-