Abdul Aziz Mirza

Who is Abdul Aziz Mirza?

Admiral Abdul Aziz Mirza, is a retired four-star rank admiral and former diplomat who served as the fifteenth Chief of Naval Staff 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.