Karamat Rahman Niazi

Karamat Rahman Niazi
Chief of Naval Staff
In office
22 March 1979 – 23 March 1983
Preceded byAdm Mohammad Shariff
Succeeded byAdm Tariq Kamal
Personal details
Born
Karamat Rahman Niazi

Hoshiarpur, Punjab, British Indian Empire
Died4 May 2021
Citizenship Pakistan
NationalityPakistani
Military service
Allegiance Pakistan
Branch/service Pakistan Navy
Years of service1948–1983
Rank Admiral
UnitNaval Operations Branch
(S/No. PN. 214): 242 [1]
CommandsVice-Chief of Naval Staff
Commander Pakistan Fleet
Submarine Command
Battles/warsIndo-Pakistani War of 1965
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
AwardsNishan-e-Imtiaz (Military)
Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military)
Sitara-e-Jurat

Admiral Karamat Rahman Niazi NI(M) HI(M) SJ (Urdu: كرامت رحمٰن نيازى ; usually shortened to K.R. Niazi) (died 4 May 2021) was a senior officer of the Pakistan Navy who served as the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) from 1979 to 1983 of the Pakistan Navy.

He was renowned for being the commander of the submarine PNS Ghazi during the second war with India in 1965, for which he was decorated. In 1979, he took over the command of the Pakistan Navy as its Chief of Naval Staff and worked in close coordination with President Zia-ul-Haq on the matters of national security throughout the 1980s.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference The Gazette of Pakistan was invoked but never defined (see the help page).