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{{Infobox official post
| post                     = Vice Chief
| body                     = the Naval Staff
| native_name              ='''وائس چیف آف دی نیول اسٹاف'''
| flag                     = Pakistan Navy Vice Admiral.svg
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| flagcaption              = Flag of the Vice Chief of the Naval Staff
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| incumbent                = [[Ovais Ahmed Bilgrami]]
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| incumbentsince           = December 2023
| type                     =
| status                   =
| department               = [[Ministry of Defence (Pakistan)|Ministry of Defence]]<br>Navy Secretariat-III at [[Ministry of Defence (Pakistan)|MoD]]
| style                    =
| member_of                =
| reports_to               = [[Chief of the Naval Staff (Pakistan)|Chief of the Naval Staff]]
| residence                =
| seat                     = [[Naval Headquarters (Pakistan Navy)|Naval Headquarters (NHQ)]] <br>[[Islamabad]], [[Pakistan]]
| nominator                =
| appointer                = [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]]
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| formation                = {{Start date and years ago|df=yes|1972|3|3}}
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| abolished                =
| succession               = On basis of seniority, subjected to the decision of the Prime Minister of Pakistan.
| abbreviation             = VCNS
| unofficial_names         = Vice Naval chief
| deputy                   = [[Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff (Pakistan)|Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff]] (DCNS)
| salary                   = According to Pakistan Military officer's Pay Grade(BPS-22)
| website                  = [https://www.paknavy.gov.pk/ Official website]
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The '''Vice Chief of the Naval Staff''' ('''VCNS''') is the post that is, in principle, the deputy and the [[second-in-command]] (S-in-C) of the [[Pakistan Navy]] and is also the most senior [[Staff officer|Principal Staff Officer]] (PSO) at [[Naval Headquarters (Pakistan Navy)|NHQ]], reporting and functioning under the [[Chief of the Naval Staff (Pakistan)|Chief of the Naval Staff]].<ref>Pakistan Navy Official Website [https://www.paknavy.gov.pk/organization.html PN Organizations]</ref> This post is usually held by a senior flag officer of [[Vice Admiral (Pakistan)|Vice Admiral]] rank.
==Office holders==
{{Incomplete list|date=January 2021}}
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! Order
! Name
! Rank
! Photo
! Appointment date
! Left office
! Unit of commission
! Decorations
! {{abbr|Ref.|References}}
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|± || [[Rashid Ahmad]] || [[File:Insignia RealAdmiral Pakistan Navy.gif|10px]][[File:US-O8 insignia.svg|20px]] [[Rear-Admiral]] || || 25 March 1969 || 20 December 1971 || Executive Branch ||{{small|[[Sitara-i-Khidmat|SK]], [[Tamgha-e-Quaid-e-Azam|TQA]]}}
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|1 ||[[Mohammad Shariff|Mohammad Sharif]] || [[File:Insignia RealAdmiral Pakistan Navy.gif|10px]][[File:US-O8 insignia.svg|20px]] [[Rear-Admiral]]|| || 1974 || 1975 || Executive Branch || {{small|[[Hilal-i-Imtiaz|HI(M)]], [[Sitara-i-Imtiaz|SI(M)]], [[Hilal-i-Jurat|HJ]], [[Sitara-i-Jurat|SJ]], [[Sitara-i-Khidmat|SK]]}}
Khaled Jamil was chief of naval staff until his retirement in 1956
|-
|2 || [[Leslie Mungavin|Leslie Norman Mungavin]] ||[[File:Insignia RealAdmiral Pakistan Navy.gif|10px]][[File:US-O8 insignia.svg|20px]] [[Rear-Admiral]] ||  || 1975 || 1977 || Operations Branch || {{small|[[Sitara-e-Pakistan|SPk]], [[Sitara-i-Khidmat|SK]]}}
|-
|3 || [[Karamat Rahman Niazi]] ||[[File:Insignia Vice Admiral Pakistan Navy.gif|10px]][[File:US-O9 insignia.svg|30px]] [[Vice-Admiral]]  ||<!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:aslamb.jpg|50px]]   -->|| 1977 || 1979 || Submarine Command || {{small| [[Sitara-e-Jurat|SJ]], [[Hilal-e-Imtiaz|HI(M)]]}}
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|4 ||[[Iqbal F. Qadir]]  || [[File:Insignia Vice Admiral Pakistan Navy.gif|10px]][[File:US-O9 insignia.svg|30px]] [[Vice-Admiral]]||<!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:yusufk.jpg|50px]]   -->|| 1980 ||1983 || Operations Branch ||  {{small|[[Hilal-i-Imtiaz|HI(M)]], [[Tamgha-e-Imtiaz|TI(M)]], [[Sitara-e-Basalat|SBt]], [[Tamgha-e-Quaid-e-Azam|TQA]]}}
|-
|5 || [[Iftikhar Ahmed Sirohey]] ||[[File:Insignia Vice Admiral Pakistan Navy.gif|10px]][[File:US-O9 insignia.svg|30px]] [[Vice-Admiral]] ||<!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:Gen Ahsan S Hyat.jpg|50px]]  -->|| 1985|| 1988 || 	Engineering Branch|| NI(M)
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|6 || [[Yastur-ul-Haq Malik]] ||[[File:Insignia Vice Admiral Pakistan Navy.gif|10px]][[File:US-O9 insignia.svg|30px]] [[Vice-Admiral]] || || 1988 ||1991 || Surface Branch || NI(M)
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|7 || [[Syed Iqtidar Husain]] || [[File:Insignia Vice Admiral Pakistan Navy.gif|10px]][[File:US-O9 insignia.svg|30px]] [[Vice-Admiral]] || ||1992 ||1993 || Operations Branch || NI(M)
|-
|? || [[Mohammad Haroon]] || [[File:Insignia Vice Admiral Pakistan Navy.gif|10px]][[File:US-O9 insignia.svg|30px]] [[Vice-Admiral]] || ||7 Nov 2005<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/164605|title = Admiral Haroon appointed Vice Chief of Naval Staff|date = 8 November 2005}}</ref> ||2007? || Operations Branch || NI(M)
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|? || [[Asaf Humayun]] || [[File:Insignia Vice Admiral Pakistan Navy.gif|10px]][[File:US-O9 insignia.svg|30px]] [[Vice-Admiral]] || ||30 Oct 2008<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bahria.edu.pk/ncmpr/vice-admiral-retd-asaf-humayun-him/|title = Vice Admiral (Retd) Asaf Humayun HI(M) – NCMPR}}</ref> ||26 Dec 2009 || Operations Branch || NI(M)
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|? || [[Shahid Iqbal]] || [[File:Insignia Vice Admiral Pakistan Navy.gif|10px]][[File:US-O9 insignia.svg|30px]] [[Vice-Admiral]] || ||30 Dec 2009 ||12 Aug 2010 || Operations Branch || NI(M)
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|? || [[Asif Sandila]] || [[File:Insignia Vice Admiral Pakistan Navy.gif|10px]][[File:US-O9 insignia.svg|30px]] [[Vice-Admiral]] || ||10 Aug 2010 ||6 October 2011 || Operations Branch || NI(M)
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|? || [[Tayyab Ali Dogar]] || [[File:Insignia Vice Admiral Pakistan Navy.gif|10px]][[File:US-O9 insignia.svg|30px]] [[Vice-Admiral]] || ||October 2011 ||2012? || Operations Branch || NI(M)
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|? || [[Khan Hasham bin Saddique]] || [[File:Insignia Vice Admiral Pakistan Navy.gif|10px]][[File:US-O9 insignia.svg|30px]] [[Vice-Admiral]] || || 10 November 2014 ||? || Operations Branch || HI(M), SI (M)
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|? || [[Kaleem Shaukat]] || [[File:Insignia Vice Admiral Pakistan Navy.gif|10px]][[File:US-O9 insignia.svg|30px]] [[Vice-Admiral]] || ||? || || Operations Branch || NI(M)
|-
|? || [[Fayyaz Gilani]] || [[File:Insignia Vice Admiral Pakistan Navy.gif|10px]][[File:US-O9 insignia.svg|30px]] [[Vice-Admiral]] || ||17 November 2019 || || Operations Branch ||
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|? || [[Muhammad Amjad Khan Niazi]] || [[File:Insignia Vice Admiral Pakistan Navy.gif|10px]][[File:US-O9 insignia.svg|30px]] [[Vice-Admiral]] || ||? ||7 October 2020 || Operations Branch || NI(M)
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|? || [[Faisal Rasul Lodhi]] || [[File:Insignia Vice Admiral Pakistan Navy.gif|10px]][[File:US-O9 insignia.svg|30px]] [[Vice-Admiral]] || ||3 September 2021|| || Operations Branch ||
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|? || [[Naveed Ashraf]] || [[File:Insignia Vice Admiral Pakistan Navy.gif|10px]][[File:US-O9 insignia.svg|30px]] [[Vice-Admiral]] || ||March 2023 || October 2023|| Operations Branch ||
|-
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|[[Ovais Ahmed Bilgrami]]
|[[File:Insignia Vice Admiral Pakistan Navy.gif|10px]][[File:US-O9 insignia.svg|30px]] [[Vice-Admiral]]
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|October 2023
|Incumbent
|Operations Branch
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|-
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==See also==
* [[Vice Chief of the Air Staff (Pakistan)]]
* [[Vice Chief of the Army Staff (Pakistan)]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:Pakistan Navy]]
{{Pakistan Navy}}
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