The story of the mysterious destruction of a Pakistani submarine that frightened India

The story of the mysterious destruction of a Pakistani submarine that frightened India ...

PNS Ghazi (S130) submarine, ...

There is a submarine in the history of Pakistan Navy whose deeds are still alive in the minds of the people and at the same time its mysterious disappearance (in fact destruction) has not been forgotten so far. This is PNS Ghazi (S130). The submarine, which Pakistan leased from the United States in 1963. According to Dawn News, it was originally a World War II-era submarine that served the US Navy from 1945 to 1963.

 Under the Security Assistance Program, it was leased on a four-year basis in 1964 and became part of the Pakistan Navy. It was the only submarine Pakistan had in the 1965 war and India did not have one, which is why during the war it During the war, the submarine was deployed in Indian waters and was ordered to target only heavy and large Indian Navy warships, making it India's only aircraft carrier. The INS kept searching for Vikrant, but it did not leave the port. On September 17, Ghazi came to the surface and hit the Indian ship INS Brahmaputra with three torpedoes and easily thwarted the counter-attack. On its return, the submarine was awarded 10 war awards, including the Star of Courage, Medal of Courage. After the 1965 war, Pakistan again signed a four-year lease agreement with the United States in 1967 to improve its condition. Assistance was sought from the Turkish Navy. In 1971, when tensions between Pakistan and India escalated, the Indian Navy moved its aircraft carrier INS to Vishakhapatnam and Ghazi was given a mission to harm it, which was described as extremely dangerous. 

On November 14, 1971, she quietly entered Indian waters in the Bay of Bengal, 3,000 miles from the Arabian Sea. Zafar Muhammad was the commander at the time, accompanied by a crew of 10 officers and 82 sailors. Nakati was working on a mission, the first goal of which was to find and destroy Vikrant, while the second was to find and destroy the Indian East Coast. During the same mission, the submarine was mysteriously destroyed and sunk on December 4, 1971 at the Visakhapatnam port while digging tunnels and searching for Vikrant. It is such a mysterious event that so far The cause of the submarine's demise is yet to be ascertained, however, the Indian claimed that it was destroyed by INS Rajput on the night between December 3 and 4, but Pakistan Navy's intelligence after analyzing its investigation and military information Rejecting this, he said that Ghazi submarine had accidentally landed while laying landmines.

 In this regard, the opinion of foreign experts also supports the Pakistani position which said that Ghazi was deliberately the target of these landmines. India rejected the offer of an investigation by the US and Russia in this regard, which also strengthened Pakistan's position. According to the report, in 2003, Indian Navy divers recovered some items from Ghazi. 

He also brought with him the bodies of six Pakistani servicemen who had been martyred The ET officer was a mechanical engineer with a letter from a sailor's pocket written to his fiance. All of them were given honorary military burials by the Indian Navy, while the items recovered included radar computers, war logs, Destroyed windshields, a few files, etc., and photographs were released. In 1972, crews aboard the Ghazi were awarded gallantry awards by the Pakistani government, making it the only US-built submarine in the history of the Pakistani navy. After that, help was sought from France for submarines. The Pakistani navy has since greatly improved its submarine protection program, including a telefilm on the submarine, Ghazi, in 1998 in collaboration with ISPR. Shaheed was also aired on PTV, but even after almost 48 years, the mystery of this national loss and tragedy could not be unraveled.

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