27 Facts About Noman Bashir

Noman Bashir HI SI TI LoM was a Pakistan Navy admiral who served as the 18th Chief of Naval Staff from 7 October 2008 until retiring on 7 October 2011.

Noman Bashir passed out in 1973, and gained commissioned as S-Lt.

Noman Bashir was further trained at the Air Force Academy as a naval aviator, and joined the Naval Aviation as a combat helicopter pilot in 1975, and later qualified to fly the P3C Orion and various other aircraft in 1990s.

Noman Bashir's brother, Salman Bashir, is a diplomat and former Foreign Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Noman Bashir graduated with MSc in War studies and briefly tenured the professorship at the Armed Forces War College where he taught courses on topics involving the Strategic studies.

Noman Bashir was later sent to the United Kingdom to attend the Royal College of Defence Studies where he focused towards the geo-strategic studies, eventually graduating with master's degree.

In 1971, Noman Bashir served in the western front of the third war with India as a naval aviator, flying the army aviation's H-13 boarded on a warship, before joining the Pakistan Naval Academy in Karachi.

In 1995, Captain Noman Bashir commanded the PNS Tariq, paying a visit to Singapore where he was joined by the RSS Valiant for bilateral exercise.

Noman Bashir was appointed to direct the inquiry board to investigate the probable cause of the Atlantique shootdown by the Indian Air Force, and later investigating the accident involving the P-3C Orion in 1999.

Noman Bashir briefly served as the Cdre-in-Charge of the Jinnah Naval Base in Balochistan, and later serving as the Commodore Training Ashore under the Flag Officer Sea Training in Karachi.

Noman Bashir took over the command of the Naval Air Arm as Commander Naval Aviation, eventually promoted to the star-rank rank admiral in the Navy.

Noman Bashir was taken as secondment and directed as general manager at the Karachi Port Trust, and later posted as the DCNS at the Navy NHQ in Islamabad until 2007.

Noman Bashir was elevated to the three-star rank in the Navy while serving in the Navy NHQ as DCNS.

On 22 July 2007, Vice-Admiral Noman Bashir became a senior fleet commander when he took over the command as the Commander Pakistan Fleet, and left the command on when he handed over the command to then-R-Adm.

Noman Bashir was appointed to command the Karachi coast as its Commander Karachi, which is responsible for entire naval combat units in Sindh and Balochistan.

Noman Bashir was in the race of the promotion to four-star rank alongside with four senior navy admirals included with seniority:.

Noman Bashir commanded and coordinated the navy-army operations in north-western contingent of the country and expanded the role of navy on wide range of its operational capacity.

Admiral Noman Bashir earned public notability and public appraise after successfully executing the cross-border operation to evacuated the Pakistani nationals from Somalia.

Noman Bashir faced the major crises with neighboring India after the deadly attacks were perpetuated in Mumbai in November 2008.

Noman Bashir denied that the terrorists who attacked the city had not used the sea routes from Pakistan to reach the city.

Noman Bashir strongly criticized Indian army chief General Deepak Kapoor's statement about simultaneous war with China and Pakistan.

Admiral Noman Bashir was the chief of naval staff when Al Qaeda attacked PNS Mehran, a Pakistan Naval Air Station in retaliation for the killing of Osama Bin Ladin.

Admiral Noman Bashir was widely criticized for not properly protecting the naval base from being attacked by group of terrorists or moving quickly enough to organise the defence of the base and the operation to take it back, leading to PNS Mehran being over-run by terrorists for nearly an entire day.

Noman Bashir retired with the pall of the PNS Mehran attack on his head.

Noman Bashir rejected the accusations of security breach in the media.

On 20 June 2011, Noman Bashir submitted a report over the course of action to the Prime minister and briefed the Prime minister about the security arrangements which had been put in place following the attack on the naval base.

However, the Pakistani media then reported since Admiral Noman Bashir is the most senior officer, Admiral Noman Bashir would likely to become the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.