Ghazi Shaheed


Ghazi Shaheed is a 1998 thriller drama film based on the disasters that befell the PNS Ghazi in the Bay of Bengal. It was directed by Kazim Pasha and stars Shabbir Jan as Commander Zafar Khan and Adnan Jilani as Lieutenant-Commander Pervez Hameed. The film was financed and produced by the ISPR and the Pakistan Navy and was filmed mostly in the Arabian Sea.

Synopsis

This film revolves around the crew of PNS Ghazi, and the mysterious loss of this Tench class submarine of Pakistan Navy nearby the Indian coast during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. It ventured into Indian waters to destroy on the shores of Visakhapatnam. 92 men were killed while serving their country aboard PNS Ghazi, the first Pakistani submarine and also the only one at that time with a long range and the ability to lay mines.

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