On 5 August 1965 war broke out between India and Pakistan as a result of a covert infiltration in Indian Kashmir. "Ghazi", was at that time under command of then-Commander Karamat Rahman Niazi, who would later ascend as a four-star admiral in the Navy. Other officers who served in "Ghazi" were then-Lieutenant-Commander Ahmed Tasnim (later promoted as Vice-Admiral), Sub-Lieutenant Fasih Bokhari, and Lieutenant Zafar Muhammad who would later command her, as a Commander, in 1971.