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{{Short description|Direct reporting post of Pakistan Navy.}}
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| partof        = [[Joint Staff Headquarters (Pakistan)|Joint Staff Headquarters]]
| location      = [[Islamabad]], [[Pakistan]]
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| ownership     = [[Ministry of Defence (Pakistan)|Ministry of Defense]] (MoD)
| operator      = Secretariat-III Navy
| controlledby  = [[Chief of the Naval Staff (Pakistan)|Chief of the Naval Staff]]
| open_to_public = '''No'''
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| built         = {{Start date and age|1975}}
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| current_commander = [[Vice Chief of the Naval Staff (Pakistan)|VCNS]] [[Vice admiral (Pakistan)|Vice Admiral]] [[Ovais Ahmed Bilgrami]]
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[[File:US Navy 090820-N-8273J-056 Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Gary Roughead, middle, inspects Pakistan Navy sailors during a welcoming ceremony at Pakistan Naval Headquarters.jpg|thumb|250px|right|{{small|Adm. Gary Roughead, then-U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, at the pavilion of the Navy HQ in 2009.}}]]
The '''Naval Headquarters''' ([[NATO reporting name|Reporting name]]: '''Navy NHQ''') is the direct reporting and the command post of the [[Pakistan Navy]], currently stationed in [[Islamabad]], Pakistan.
==History==
{{Main|British conquest of Sindh}}
In 1859, the British [[Royal Navy]] in [[British Indian Empire|India]] established its first command post in [[Manora Fort, Karachi|Manora Fort]] when [[Captain (Royal Navy)|Captain]] [[Thomas Maitland, 11th Earl of Lauderdale|Thomas Maitland]] from [[HMS Wellesley (1815)|HMS ''Wellesley'']] succeeded in capturing most of the southern region of British India, which now is modern-day [[Pakistan]].{{rp|473}}<ref name="Murray, 1859">{{cite book |last1=Murray |first1=John |title=A handbook for India. Part ii. Bombay |date=1859 |pages=600 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vg0IAAAAQAAJ&dq=manora+fort+1797&pg=PA475 |access-date=6 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref> In 1864, the [[General (United Kingdom)|Gen.]] [[Charles James Napier]] had built city's [[St. Paul's Church, Manora|one of first Church]] and the [[Manora Point Lighthouse|first Lighthouse]] in 1888.{{rp|475}}<ref name="Murray, 1859"/>
On 14 August 1947, [[Vice admiral (Royal Navy)|Vice Admiral]] [[James Wilfred Jefford|James Wilfred]] decided to move the command post from Monora Island to [[Mules Mansion]] in [[Karachi]]– nation's first capital.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Waters |first1=Conrad |title=Seaforth World Naval Review 2012 |date=30 October 2011 |publisher=Seaforth Publishing |isbn=978-1-78383-098-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Us87DAAAQBAJ&dq=Naval+headquarters+karachi+Jefford&pg=PT192 |access-date=6 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref>{{rp|126}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Aziz |first1=Qutubuddin |title=Jinnah and Pakistan |date=2001 |publisher=Islamic Media Corporation |pages=208 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1wluAAAAMAAJ&q=Jefford |access-date=6 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref> Based in Mules Mansion in Karachi, the Navy's NHQ faced many problems relating to strategic communication with the [[Air Headquarters (Pakistan)|Air Force HQ]] (in [[PAF Base Peshawar|Peshawar]] at that time) and the [[General Headquarters (Pakistan Army)|Army GHQ]] (then in [[Rawalpindi Cantonment|Rawalpindi]]), operational planning, and execution that resulted in military's overall performance failure in 1971.{{rp|69}}<ref name="Lancer Publishers, Karim">{{cite book |last1=Karim |first1=Afsir |title=Indo-Pak Relations: Viewpoints, 1989-1996 |date=1996 |publisher=Lancer Publishers |isbn=978-1-897829-23-3 |pages=200 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ltOgS1FjiR4C&dq=Naval+headquarters+1975+Islamabad&pg=PA69 |access-date=6 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
Recommendations accepted from the report of the [[Hamoodur Rahman Commission|War Enquiry Commission]], the Navy's NHQ was shifted [[Islamabad]] to provide coordination with the Army's GHQ on 15 March 1975.{{rp|69}}<ref name="Lancer Publishers, Karim"/> Initially, Navy's NHQ was housed in a government secretariat building [[Islamabad]] but later built its own headquarter buildings in Islamabad.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesofislamabad.com/13-Jul-2018/pakistan-navy-command-and-staff-conference-held-in-naval-headquarters|title=Pakistan Navy Command and Staff conference held in Naval Headquarters|date=2018-07-13|work=Times of Islamabad|access-date=2018-10-02|language=en-US}}</ref>
== Secretariat ==
The Pakistan Navy's NHQ is a command post of the Pakistan Navy where the secretariat of the [[Chief of the Naval Staff (Pakistan)|Chief of the Naval Staff]] functions to ensure the ceremonial and operational command of the navy.{{rp|86–87}}<ref name="NYU Press, Cheema, 2002">{{cite book |last1=Cheema |first1=Pervaiz Iqbal |title=The Armed Forces of Pakistan |date=2002 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-0-8147-1633-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cw_gduyRv5oC&q=navy%20commander%20pakistan |access-date=6 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
There are three chief of staff branches that composed of multiple offices to oversee the administrative operations of the navy.<ref>{{cite web |last1=www.webspider.pk |first1=Web Spider (pvt) Ltd |title=Pakistan Navy Command and Staff Conference |url=https://www.hilal.gov.pk/eng-article/detail/NjA2.html |website=www.hilal.gov.pk |access-date=6 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref> In fact, the Navy's NHQ functions exactly on similar protocol of Army GHQ.<ref>{{cite web |title=Navy Chief presided over Command and Staff Conference at NHQ |url=https://timesofislamabad.com/01-Nov-2022/navy-chief-presided-over-command-and-staff-conference-at-nhq |website=Times of Islamabad |access-date=6 January 2024 |language=en |date=1 November 2022}}</ref> Each of the navy's branches and the [[Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff (Pakistan)|deputy chiefs of naval staff]] of the administrative branches works under the [[Vice Chief of the Naval Staff (Pakistan)|Vice Chief of the Naval Staff]] (CGS).<ref name="Pakistan Navy Official Website">{{cite web |title=Organization in the Navy |url=https://www.paknavy.gov.pk/organization.html |website=www.paknavy.gov.pk |publisher=Pakistan Navy Official Website |access-date=6 January 2024}}</ref> The vice chief of naval staff, who usually heads the Navy's NHQ Staff, reports directly to chief of naval staff on daily routine basis.<ref name="Pakistan Navy Official Website"/>
===Branches of the Pakistan Navy===
There are three high staff level branches of the Pakistan Navy that are headed by the [[Vice admiral (Pakistan)|vice-admirals]] and multiple administrative branches that are commanded by the deputy chiefs of naval staff who are ranked at the [[Rear admiral|rear-admirals]].{{rp|89–90}}<ref name="NYU Press, Cheema, 2002" />
The Chief of Navy Staff Secretariat is not considered as a part of the navy branch but functions separately as an office of the chief of navy staff.{{rp|47}}<ref name="NYU Press, Cheema, 2002" />
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{{center|''Source:''{{cite web |title=Pakistan Navy Organizations (official website) |url=https://www.paknavy.gov.pk/organization.html |website=www.paknavy.gov.pk |access-date=6 January 2024}} }}
==See also==
* [[Joint Staff Headquarters (Pakistan)]]
* [[Air Headquarters (Pakistan Air Force)]]
* [[General Headquarters (Pakistan Army)]]
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
* {{Official website|paknavy.gov.pk}}
{{Military headquarters in Pakistan}}
{{Pakistan Navy}}
{{coord missing|Islamabad Capital Territory}}
[[Category:Pakistan Navy]]
[[Category:Organisations based in Islamabad]]
[[Category:Military headquarters in Pakistan]]
[[Category:Naval headquarters|Pakistan]]
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