Abdul Aziz Mirza Military person

Admiral Abdul Aziz Mirza (Urdu: عبدالعزيز مرزا; b. 1943; HI(M), NI(M)), is a retired four-star rank admiral and former diplomat who served as the fifteenth Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) of Pakistan Navy from 1999 to 2002, and commanded Pakistan Navy during the Indo-Pakistani standoff in 2001.Prior to his retirement, Mirza assumed the diplomatic assignment when he was nominated and appointed as Pakistan Ambassador to Saudi Arabia in 2002 until 2005. Admiral Mirza is given credit for commissioning the country's first ingeniously and locally built long-range submarine, the Agosta 90B submarine in 1999.

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Birth date	January 01, 1943
Birth place	Rawalpindi

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award	Legion of Honour Nishan-e-Imtiaz Awards and decorations of the Pakistan Armed Forces Hilal-i-Imtiaz Sitara-i-Imtiaz
military operations	Kargil War Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971 Atlantique incident Operation Searchlight 2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
military branch	Pakistan Navy
military command	Chief of Naval Staff Commander Pakistan Fleet (COMPAK) DG Naval Intelligence (DGNI) Secy at Ministry of Defence (MoD) Special Service Group Navy
military unit	Pakistan Navy
service number	PN No. 2178
service start	1965
service end	2002