1. Haji Mohammad Siddiq Choudri MBE, popularly known as HMS Choudhri, was a Pakistan Navy admiral who was the first native Commander in Chief of Pakistan Navy.
15 Facts About HMS Choudri
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HMS Choudri resigned from his command due to differences regarding the navy's plans of modernization and to end the interservice rivalry with Army GHQ, Pakistan MoD, and the Presidency on 26 January 1959.
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HMS Choudri died on 27 February 2004 and was buried in military graveyard in Karachi with full military honors.
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HMS Choudri was among the first Indians and first Indian Muslim to be commissioned a midshipman in the Royal Indian Navy's Executive Branch in 1931.
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HMS Choudri was trained as torpedo and anti-submarine specialist and held various officer's appointments both at sea and with land-based naval formations before and after the World War II.
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HMS Choudri then went to the United States in 1943, delivering lectures on the role of the Royal Indian Navy.
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HMS Choudri participated in the Pacific theatre against the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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HMS Choudri witnessed the Japanese surrender in 1945 and commanded a naval division that consisted of the two-ship formation that represented the Royal Indian Navy.
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HMS Choudri was among the first twenty naval officers who joined the Royal Pakistan Navy as a captain with a service number PN.
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HMS Choudri was the first most senior and the only captain in the navy in terms of seniority list provided by the Royal Indian Navy to the Ministry of Defense in 1947.
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HMS Choudri did not actively participated in first war with India in 1947, instead he commanded a destroyer from Karachi to Mumbai to oversee the evacuation of Indian emigrants to Pakistan.
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HMS Choudri was promoted as rear admiral and assumed the command of the navy with an objective of expanding navy's resources and infrastructure.
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HMS Choudri was in bitter conflict with General Ayub who saw the purchase of PNS Baber and his submarine procurement approaches had jeopardized the foreign military relations with the United States.
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HMS Choudri avoided politics and provided no commentaries on conflicts and wars with neighboring India in successive years of 1965,1971, and 1999.
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HMS Choudri died of old age on 27 February 2004 and was buried in a military graveyard in Karachi.