Save the PNS Hangor

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It brought me great displeasure to learn that the Navy has decided to scrap three recently decommissioned Daphne-class submarines, one being the PNS Hangor. For those unaware of the submarine or its achievements, PNS Hangor holds the distinction to be the first post-WWII submarine to sink an enemy vessel by sinking an Indian frigate during the 1971. Since then, the feat has only been repeated once, by a Royal Navy nuclear powered submarine during the Falklands war.

The ship PNS Hangor sank was the frigate 'INS Khukri', the Indian Navy's biggest single wartime casualty since its creation. Her wartime actions forced the Indian Navy to cease attempts of a naval blockade of Karachi, arguably ending Indian desire to continue with the war. In recognition of their accomplishments, captain Commander Ahmed Tasnim would later be award the Sitaria-e-Jurat.

PNS Hangor would go on to provide service to the Navy for another 25 years, until it was decommissioned in a ceremony earlier this year.

Despite the submarines colourful service, the Navy has decided to scrap her. I am totally opposed to this and call upon military enthusiasts and patriots alike to make their voices heard on the issue. She most certainly should not be scrapped, and ought to be refitted for preservation at the Karachi Naval Museum, where she would serve as a very bold attraction. The PNS Hangor is an important piece of our nation's heritage, and being only one of two post-WWII submarines to have registered a kill post-WWII, is important to the history of global naval warfare as a whole.

In the past, Halifax aircraft the RPAF used gallantly to resupply Kashmiri civilians and fighters during the 1947 war were scrapped in the 1950s, as has major military hardware captured during both the Soviet-Afghanistan war and the wars against India.

Many believe all three branches of the military have an impassive attitude towards preserving military heritage, and if PNS Hangor is to be scrapped, it would only serve to reinforce this view.

Regards,

PakMilitary.net

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  • Haroon
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  • Abbas Ali
  • Ali Ahsan
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    • PNS Hangor is a piece of Pak Navy heritage...dont scrap history !!!
  • babar
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    • Preserve it in a museum!
  • Saad S
  • G Ahmed
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  • E. Butt
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  • m rizwan
  • Usman Haider Ansari
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    • A national monument of global importance! It must be preserved!
  • Ajmal Mahmood
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    • Save it for meuseum
  • N Dad
  • Abdur Rasheed
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    • I wholeheartedly support the preservstion of Hangor.
  • Adnan Khan
  • Muhammad Zarrar Baig
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  • Junaid
  • Syed Nooman Naqvi
  • Mustafa Aziz
  • Muhammad Bin Waheed
  • Mujahid Achzakzai
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    • Requesting to save PNS Hangor from the Ship-wrecking Dockyard
  • Muhammad Khan
  • Farooq hafeez
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    • Hangoor is a very important part of our naval history. We owe it to us and our coming genreations to preserve it. I dont mind if the others subs are sent for break up, but hangoor is a legend second only to Ghazi shaheed.
  • Usman Jalil
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    • I am proud of Our Naval History.
  • Fahad Arshad Siddiqui
  • tayyab noor warracih
  • Major(r) SHAUKAT PAREKH
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    • I AM READY TO PAY ITS SCRAP VALUE SUBJECT TO GOVT OF PAKISTAN ALLOTS A LAND FOR DISPLAY AGAINST THIS DONOTATION OR IT MAY BE ADDED TO PAKISTAN NAVY MUSEAM.I AM OFFERING THIS DUE TO HARD LINE APPROCH OF PAKISTAN GOVT TO WIPE A VALAUBALE ARTIFIACE
  • Suleman Ahmed
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    • Preservation of Honour
  • Omar
  • tauseef
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    • save it!!
  • Zain
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    • save it!
  • Mastan Khan
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    • Let us preserve our history
  • A. Anwar
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    • A. Anwar
  • Anjum Ashfaq
  • Arshad
  • Abdullah Khan Durrani
  • Hamid Rehman
  • Nasir Khawaja
  • javaid butt
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    • historical pns HANGOR is national asset it should be perserved for the new generation
  • Fahd Ahmed
  • Abdullah
  • Farhan Choudhry
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    • Its part of our Heritage. Honour it.
  • Kamran Sarwar
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    • Its great naval history!
  • Saad Asad Cheema
  • Jawad Usman
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    • We still need PNS Hangor!!!!!
  • Ahmad Hafeez
  • Zain Abidin
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    • Please, save the grace of our nation. Do not scrap our history.
  • Farhad Zaidi
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    • This submarine made history. It must be preserved.
  • Afan Khan
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    • It must be preserved. End of Discussion
  • Muhammad Shiraz Choudhry
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    • The submarine should be preserved at all cost.
  • Adil Zia
  • David Manley, RCNC