Abdul Aziz Mirza
Allegiance	Pakistan
Service/branch	Pakistan Navy
Years of service	1965 – 2002
Rank	Admiral
Commands held	Commander Pakistan Fleet (COMPAK) Vice Chief of Naval Staff (VCNS) Chief of Naval Staff
Battles/wars	Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
Awards	Sitara-e-Basalat Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military) Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Military)
Other work	Pakistan Ambassador to Saudi Arabia

Admiral Abdul Aziz Mirza is the former Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) who commanded Pakistan Navy from 1999 to 2002 and is served as Pakistan's ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 2002 to 2005. A graduate of Military College Jhelum (College No. 2178), Mirza was commissioned in Pakistani Navy in 1965 after undergoing training with the 29th PMA Long Course (same course as General Pervez Musharraf and Lt Gen Ali Kuli Khan at Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul. He is a graduate of Pakistan National Defence College, Islamabad.

Before taking over, Mirza was serving as the Vice Chief of Naval Staff (VCNS). He took over on 6 October 1999 when Admiral Fasih Bokhari resigned from the navy. During Mirza's time as naval chief, Pakistan built its first indigenous submarine, the French designed Agosta 90B class submarine.^[1]

Mirza was replaced by Admiral Shahid Karimullah as the naval chief when he was due to retire in 2002. He was again replaced by Karimullah as Pakistan Ambassador to Saudi Arabia in 2005.

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[edit] External links

• Admiral Shahid Karimullah takes over as Navy chief
• Interview with Lt Gen (r) Ali Kuli Khan

Military offices
Preceded by Fasih Bokhari	Chief of Naval Staff 1999 – 2002	Succeeded by Shahid Karimullah

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