Yastur-ul-Haq Malik
| Yastur-ul-Haq Malik | |
|---|---|
| Chief of Naval Staff | |
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In office 10 November 1988 – 8 November 1991 |
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| Preceded by | Adm. Iftikhar Ahmed Sirohey |
| Succeeded by | Adm. S.M. Khan |
| Chairman of National Shipping Corporation | |
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In office 1 November 1986 – 8 November 1988 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Yasturul Haq Malik March 20, 1933 Karachi, Sindh, British Indian Empire (Present-day Pakistan) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 Pakistan
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| Service/branch |
 Pakistan Navy
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| Years of service | 1951–1991 |
| Rank |
  Admiral
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| Unit | Surface Branch |
| Commands | Vice-Chief of Naval Staff DCNS (Personnel) Commander Pakistan Fleet Naval attaché at Pakistan Embassy, Paris |
| Battles/wars |
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 |
| Awards |
 Nishan-e-Imtiaz Sitara-e-Basalat
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Admiral Yastur-ul-Haq Malik (Urdu: یسطور الحق ملک; b. 20 March 1933), NI(M), SBt, is a retired four-star rank admiral who served as the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) of Pakistan Navy from 10 November 1988 until retiring from his military service on 8 November 1991.
He is noted for his tenureship as the Chief of Naval Staff which ran only for two years, making him the shortest serving four-star admiral serving as Chief of Naval Staff.
Yastur-ul-Haq Malik was born on 20 March 1933 in Karachi, Sind, in British India. He hailed from an Urdu-speaking family that had settled in Karachi from Lucknow before the partition of India in 1947.
He attended and graduated from the Saint Patrick's College in Karachi and gained commissioned as Midshipman in 1951 and inducted in the Surface Branch of the Pakistan Navy in 1954. After his initial training at the Pakistan Military Academy, he was sent to United Kingdom to attend the Britannia Royal Naval College at Darmouth where he graduated and further trained with the Royal Navy in 1958.
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