page_title: Pakistan Navy
section_title: Involvement in the civil society
hierarchical_section_title: Pakistan Navy / Involvement in the civil society
caption_attribution_description: English: 051108-N-0716S-002 Persian Gulf (November 8, 2005) - The Pakistani Navy frigate PNS Badr steams alongside the amphibious assault ship USS Tarawa in the Northern Persian Gulf. Tarawa is the flagship for Expeditionary Strike Group One (ESG-1), commanded by Rear Adm. Michael LeFever, who is also coordinating U.S. forces for the Pakistani led relief effort for the earthquake that struck the northern part of the country on October 8th. The ships of ESG-1 have made several trips to Pakistan to unload relief supplies.
context_page_description: The Pakistan Navy is the naval warfare branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces. It came into existence by transfer of personnel and equipment from the Royal Indian Navy that ceased to exist following the partition of British India through a parliamentary act that established the independence of Pakistan and India from the United Kingdom on 14 August 1947.
  Its primary objective is to ensure the defence of the sea lines of communication of Pakistan and safeguarding Pakistan's maritime interests by executing national policies through the exercise of military effect, diplomatic and humanitarian activities in support of these objectives. In addition to its war services, the Navy has mobilized its war assets to conduct humanitarian rescue operations at home as well as participating in multinational task forces mandated by the United Nations to prevent seaborne terrorism and privacy off the coasts.
context_section_description: The Pakistan Navy has played an integral part in the civil society of Pakistan, almost since its inception.  In 1996, General Jehangir Karamat described Pakistan armed forces' relations with the society:
  In my opinion, if we have to repeat of past events then we must understand that Military leaders can pressure only up to a point. Beyond that their own position starts getting undermined because the military is after all is a mirror image of the civil society from which it is drawn.
  — General Jehangir Karamat on civil society–military relations, 
  In times of national calamities and emergencies, the Pakistan Navy has been deployed in relief operations and nation building programs in the country. In 2004, a tactical task force under then-Commodore Asif Sandila coordinated the peacetime relief operations in Maldives, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Bangladesh when the underwater earthquake caused a tsunami and struck the South Asian nations. In 2005, the Navy deployed the PNS Badr (D-184) to help assists the relief efforts for the earthquake that struck the northern part of the country in October 2005.
  In 2010, the Navy coordinated its one the largest relief operation during the nationwide flash floods, with Navy divers rescuing and evacuating more than 352,291 people in August 2010. In addition, the Navy and Marines personnel provided 43,850 kg of food and relief goods to flood victims; 5,700 kg of ready-to-cook food, 1,000 kg of dates and 5,000 kg of food has been dispatched to Sukkur.As of January 2011, under the program PN Model Village, the Navy's civil engineering corps built the model houses in the affected areas for the internally displaced person (IDPs).
  On 10 June 2018, Pakistan Navy and Maritime Security Agency rescued eleven Iranian crew members on an sunken Iranian boat in the Northern Arabian Sea, about 230 kilometres (140 mi) away from Karachi.
caption: PNS Badr participating in the relief operations after the earthquake hit the northern parts of the country in 2005.
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