The Ghazi Attack

They reached there by swimming in the night and planted limpet mines on the ships. And then, the explosions! When the orders for big fake vegetables were placed, Pakistan was trapped. And both RAW agents reached Pakistan in the same ship. They were tricked because they put the commandos of Mukti Bahani in Operation X. They will play two songs on the radio and give the signal.

Start the operation at the same time. The secret sealed order which says Papa and Mike, means that a secret camp was made in West Bengal and the code was C2P. But it was the opposite. Western country betrayed and gave Intel to Pakistan. INS Rajput fired two back-to-back shots at the same spot. Whether I come back or not, INS Rajput will definitely come back.

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And were protesting. And to stop these protests, Pakistan's military on 25th of March, 1971, started a huge crackdown in East Pakistan. Mass murders were taking place. Now, when this crackdown started on 25th of March,

people started entering India from the borders of East Pakistan. And the number of people entering India was not less. More than 50,000 refugees started entering India daily. At various places, India had to make refugee camps. And in a very short time, the number of refugees had reached more than 90 lakhs. Now, it sounds like a small thing, but it was having a huge impact.

A lot of money was being lost. The burden of 700 million dollars was on the Indian government. 4% of the central government's budget was being spent on this. The border was very long, so it was difficult to stop it. But the number of refugees was increasing day by day. And so fast that India was afraid of changing its demography. That is, India was afraid of changing its population.

India used many methods to deal with this. They tried to reach UN, but nothing worked. When there was no other option, in April 1971, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi called the Chiefs of Army, Navy and Air Force to take military action in East Pakistan.

When this was announced to the Chiefs, they refused. They said they needed time to win this war. If we win this war in December 1971 instead of April 1971, then it will be a short victory and the damage will be less. After discussing all this, Indira Gandhi gave time for preparation. When the time for preparation was given, the Indian forces planned to weaken Pakistan so much that it would be able to win the war in December.

If you look at the map, there were only two ways for Pakistan's military to reach East Pakistan. One was the air route and the other was the sea route. On 1st April 1971, India had already closed its airspace to Pakistan. Now, the second option was the sea route. Pakistan military was sending all its military supplies from this route. So, the head of the Indian Navy at that time, SM Nanda ji, wanted to close this sea route as well.

So that if weapons are not sent from here, Pakistan's military supply line will be closed. And East Pakistan will be isolated from all sides. This plan was good but India could not stop this. This was considered an act of war. So, for this, a plan is made for the next month, May 1971.

There is a place in West Bengal called Plassey where a secret location is selected. And the code name of this location was C2P.. Kapil and Lt. Das were managing this secret location After setting up everything at this location the people of Mukti Bhani in East Pakistan who were doing guerilla warfare against Pakistan's military were called to this C2P secret camp for training

In which, the commandos of Mukti Bhani were taught to fly ships using magnetic limpet mines How to navigate at night All these things were taught in training The plan was simple, instead of directly getting involved Muktibani's commandos would train them and these commandos would swim underwater at night

and would go to the ships that were coming from the sea route to East Pakistan and would come back with magnetic limpet mines under them. And when Pakistani ships will start flying one after the other, then this route will automatically start getting blocked for Pakistan. Due to which the supply line of sending Pakistan's military weapons etc. in East Pakistan will get disrupted. So now after completing all this training, a secret code is kept that

two pre-decided songs will play and as soon as they play, Operation X, as it was named, so this Operation X will start. So as per plan, on the night of 15th of August, 1971, the exact songs played on the radio. And as soon as the songs played on the radio and the signal was received,

the commandos of Mukti Bahani, Chitgaon, Mongla, Chandpur, from all these areas, swam underwater and reached the ships on the route of Pakistan. They set up magnetic limpet mines Which were to be triggered at a specific time and blast It was named Operation X

So as soon as Operation X starts One after another explosions start happening And on 16th of August 1971, the biggest damage is done MV Al Abbas and MV Hormoz All of them fly away Almost 19,000 tons of arms and ammunition were lost.

You can find the number 19,000 tons in different places. I used the most written number. Now, Operation X started. Back to back, Pakistan ships were being bombed. And we didn't even know how the explosions were happening. Ships were going inside the ships and explosions were happening.

Pakistan was very surprised. It didn't understand what was happening. and explosions. Pakistan was shocked and confused. All the military supply lines of Pakistan that were going to East Pakistan were getting disrupted. More than 100 vessels were blasted.

Pakistan was scared to send its ships on this route. Captain M.N.R. Samant, who was involved in this operation, has also mentioned this in his book. After some time,

because of Operation X, the blasts that were happening on Pakistani ships, were happening in a very systematic and planned manner. And the planned manner in which these attacks were happening, Pakistan started to understand that this is not a guerrilla attack of Muktibani, but an India-backed, coordinated operation. The USA was also with Pakistan.

They also didn't want India to stand in the way of Pakistan's military in East Pakistan. So when all this was happening, USA was also tracking India's activity with its advanced intelligence system. On 22nd of December 1971, CIA's Office of National Estimates had made a secret memorandum. This document has been declassified now. You can find this document in the record of Foreign Relations of the United States in the record, you will find the document with the name 144 This is a copy of it. So even at that time, in this document, USA had clearly written

that India is supporting Mukti Bani. Now, this blast on Pakistan and when the name of India was coming in front of it, then Pakistan turned on the offensive mode against India. Pakistan deployed fighters and naval units on the airbases of Karachi and nearby areas forward. Now, when Pakistan Pakistan deployed its fighters and naval units on the airbases of Karachi and nearby areas.

When Pakistan started forward deployment in its offensive zone, all this intelligence started coming to India's Navy Headquarters. To avenge the loss in Operation X, Pakistan could also plan something against India. So, Indian Navy gets alert about its ships. Like in the Second World War, Japan had airirstriked all the ships in Pearl Harbor. I hope Pakistan is not thinking of taking revenge for Operation X.

And at that time, India's most important aircraft carrier, INS Vikran, was stationed at the Ballard Pier in Mumbai. Now, INS Vikran was a huge naval asset for India. In the Indian Ocean, it was like a walking airbase of a city. More than 20-25 fighter jets could operate on it. In the war, only INS Vikrant had the courage to turn the tide. So it was very important to keep it safe.

But at the same time, there was another problem. Some repair work was left in INS Vikrant. To fly its aircraft, the catapult launcher was a problem. And its A1 boiler's multiple A1 boiler had to be repaired. And the spare parts had to be ordered from Britain and it would take more than 3-4 years. So, there were multiple discussions about whether to hide INS Vikrant at a safe location or prepare it for war. Whether to keep it safe or drop it into the war.

And everyone in the Indian Navy said that the repair of INS Vikrant is also pending. So, it would not be a right decision to involve it in the war that is yet to come. But the head of the Indian Navy, SM Nanda and Vice Admiral Hira Nandani, go against everyone and say that this is our most powerful weapon. It should definitely be deployed in the war. And as far as the repair is concerned, we will make it war-ready.

And then after multiple discussions, approval approval is granted. Once the approval is granted, INS Vikrant, who was standing on the ballot pier in Mumbai, is shifted to the Koval Port in Mumbai and the repair work is started. After the repair, INS Vikrant is first shifted from Koval Port to Cochin, then from Cochin to Madras, to the Bay of Bengal. After reaching here, INS Vikrant comes a safe range and then it is given the task of surveillance in the 18,000 mile area between Madras, Vishakhapatnam and Port Blair. When INS Vikrant reached the East Coast, the intel of this thing is also received by the Naval Intelligence of Pakistan.

Pakistan is very scared after hearing this thing the sea route due to Operation X. On top of that, INS Vikrant, which is so important for India, was shifted to the East Coast. Pakistan was afraid that if INS Vikrant was used to build a naval blockade on the East Coast, then the entire control of Pakistan's military would be taken away from East Pakistan. And all the reinforcements, weapon supply, all these things that are happening in East Pakistan, will also be stopped. And East Pakistan, where the Muktibani commandoes are already fighting so much, and when all these supplies won't reach there,

then East Pakistan will be taken by Pakistan. And this was the time when Pakistan had decided, that if INS Vikrant is not done anything in time, then East Pakistan will be taken by them. And this fear of Pakistan about INS Vikrant is not done in time, then East Pakistan is doomed to be taken by them. And this fear of Pakistan about INS Vikrant is also true in the future. So after all these things happened, Pakistan started planning to remove INS Vikrant from the road.

Now see, Pakistan did not have any aircraft carrier, but it had 4 submarines. Out of which 3 submarines were Hangur, Mangro and Shushuk. These were short range submarines. So it was not possible for them to reach INS Vikrant and damage it. But their 4th submarine was the only long range submarine in Pakistan which could reach INS Vikrant, attack it and remove it from the way.

And the name of this submarine was PNS Ghazi. It was very difficult to detect PNS Ghazi underwater. And this PNS Ghazi was first with the USA. At that time, it was called USS Diablo. But when INS Vikrant came to India in 1961, to counter it, in 1963,

USA gave it to Pakistan under the Security Assistance Programme, SAP And then Pakistan changed its name to PNS Ghazi S-130 Pakistan had the best option, PNS Ghazi to remove INS Vikrant from the way So by September 1971, Pakistan's leadership had decided that PNS Ghazi should be sent to Bengal and INS Vikrant should be dropped But the problem was that PNS Ghazi was also in a bad condition.

It was old and it had a technical issue in its Mk 14 torpedoes. And about a week ago, when PNS Ghazi was sent to the Arabian Sea for a short patrolling, it had to be called back midway due to a mechanical issue. Because of all these issues, Pakistan's Navy was refusing to send PNS Ghazi to the Bay of Bengal for a mission. But even after that, Pakistan's leadership didn't listen. It had already made its decision and started the preparations. Now, Pakistan knew that INS Vikrant was in the Bay of Bengal.

But they didn't know the exact location. And what did they do to find out? A Western country's aircraft was sent to Madras by mistake. And then, after reaching Madras, making an excuse of some technical problem in the aircraft, requested India for an emergency landing. Now, when the aircraft of that Western country requested for such an emergency landing, India could not refuse.

It had to be allowed. And then, after landing at the Madras port, this aircraft did multiple test drives in the surrounding area. With the excuse of doing the right thing. and did a simple test drive to verify it. And in the meantime, he saw INS Vikrant, took pictures of it, took coordinates etc. And then in the same week, the confidential details of INS Vikrant

were sent to Pakistan Naval Warfare's Director, Captain Abdul Wahil Bhumbal. So, in this way, the details of where INS Vikrant is located in Pakistan were also provided. And the Western country, which Western country's aircraft was it,

was not identified. No one could find out which western country this aircraft belonged to. Wherever it is mentioned, it is a western country. After this, the date comes to 8th of November 1971. And on this day, Captain Zafar Muhammad Khan, who was also the torpedo officer of PNS Ghazi in the war of 1965, is selected for this mission. PNS Ghazi is made the commanding officer.

And then the basic details of INS Vikrant are given to him. And then a week later, the date of 14th of November 1971 is fixed. That on this day PNS Ghazi will go on his mission. And then after all the preparations, the date comes 14th of November 1971. On this day PNS Ghazi had to leave for his mission. And in PNS Ghazi, with the CEO Captain Zafar Muhammad Khan, there were 93 members. Out of which which were officers, started their preparations to leave.

But none of them were told what exactly to do. Naval headquarters handed over sealed orders to all the details of the mission and gave coordinates of the location where these sealed orders were to be opened. And it was also said that if there is a delay in reaching these coordinates or a communication break, then opening the sealed order in that case will let you know what to do. And I will show you a copy of what was written in this order.

So, till now, all the people in PNS Ghazi knew that they have to patrol around INS Vikrant, collect details, and they didn't know more details than this. After this, Pakistan's national anthem is played and PNS Ghazi leaves from here. And as soon as he leaves, he takes a right turn and to go to the 84 degree east longitude, he maintains a distance of 400 nautical miles from the Indian border and starts walking at a speed of 20 knots per hour.

So that the Indian surveillance cannot detect him. All the people sitting in PNS Ghazi had no idea what was going to happen next. This was the exact route. And two days later, on 16th of November 1971, they reach here. They move towards the location of INS Vikrant day by day. Now when Ghazi leaves on this route,

the Indian Navy was already tracking the communication signals of Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi and Dhaka all the communication signals were being tracked and at that time, Indian Navy didn't have high-tech computers but they had a smart radio direction finder It could not encrypt the secret messages of Pakistan but it could tell the direction from which the signals were coming and going In Pakistan's Navy Headquarters, he would send very small encrypted messages

communicating that he has reached here. And what was happening inside, he would send all the details. Now, when these people were talking by sending short messages in between, then this radio direction finder of India

tracks a pattern that at a specific location of the South East Sea, there is a submarine or a vessel type thing which is slowly reaching the location of INS Vikrant. And it is sending short signals in the headquarter of Pakistan every now and then.

Now when CO Dharam Dev Dutta, he was also known as Triple D, he gets to know about this, he takes this thing seriously and starts to get more details about it. So it is found that in the last few days, between West Pakistan and East Pakistan, the volumes of these secret messages suddenly increased rapidly. And in the meantime, he also caught a wireless encrypted communication. It was found that he was requesting a special grade lubricant oil from East Pakistan's Chitgong.

And this oil was only used in minesweepers or submarines. Along with this, a submarine or vessel type thing in the South East, sending multiple short messages to Pakistan is slowly reaching the location of INS Vikrant. After seeing all these things, it is found that Pakistan had only one long range submarine

which can cover such a long route. And that was Ghazi. And India had the details of frequency, habits, power level, antenna pattern of PNS Ghazi. If that was matched, it matched with PNS Ghazi. So, CEO Dharmendra Dev Dutta, Triple D, was confirmed that submarine PNS Ghazi is moving ahead to kill INS Vikrant.

And at the same time, another intel comes to India that a new surveillance system is being installed at the Karachi port of Pakistan. Now, if a new equipment comes to another country during war, it becomes a game changer. So it was very important to know the details of this. So what happened was that on the same route, which was of India and Pakistan, here the Indian Customs Department caught an Indian doctor named Kauas ji smuggling.

So the RNAW picked him up from jail and made a deal with him. And gave him a task to go back on the same route as he used to go to take the ship, we have to go again. While going, our two men have to take the ship. And these two were RAW agents, whose codename was Rod and Muriarty. So as per plan,

the consiglio takes these two agents on the same route and starts going to the Pakistan port. And then after reaching there, these two agents start taking photographs and start counting the ships. And when they were taking photographs and counting the ships.

And when they were taking photographs, they noticed a structure

which had an anti-aircraft defence battery. Now, this was a little unusual because such anti-aircraft guns and radar systems are not seen during peacetime, only during emergency or war. So, all this intel was sent to the Indian Navy. So, when all these things were combined, it was understood that Pakistan had already planned the war. And the PNS Ghazi which was moving towards the Bay of Bengal, as soon as INS Vikrant was dropped, Pakistan would start the war.

So India also intensifies its preparation from here. And PNS Ghazi which was moving towards the Bay of Bengal, it was very important to find out exactly where he was and his location for India. And Penas Ghazi had crossed the Okla Port on 16th November 1971. He had sent his coordinators and informed the Pakistan headquarters. And then he started going towards Colombo. He reached the Naval Airfield of Goa, then reached Karnataka, then it reached Mangalore port. Crossing all these, on the night of 18th November 1971,

Cochin port, which was in Kerala, reaches an island here. And the next day, on 19th November 1971, it reaches Trincomalee port in Sri Lanka. And here it started refueling and cleaning. It had completed a total of 2200 nautical miles. Now, Commander Zafar had to open the secret sealed order that he received.

One of the letters was written, Open at high seas. So, Captain Zafar opens the secret sealed order and it was written to complete two tasks. One was to go to Madras and sink INS Vikrant. And the second task was that in case INS Vikrant could not be sunk, then mines have to be laid near Vishakhapatnam port. So, the second task was set to take revenge

for the Indian Operation X ships. That's why it was written in the secret orders that if the first task is not completed, mines should be laid near Vishakhapatnam port. So, the team of PNS Ghazi and commander Zafar had the exact idea that they were sent here to bring down INS Vikrant.

So, Commander Zafar, to complete his task, slowly, slowly, starts moving towards INS Vikrant. And on the other side, the Indian Intelligence, they had found out that PNS Ghazi had reached the Bay of Bengal. And they had found out because PNS Ghazi, in this entire journey, through short messages,

which is also called short HF burst, was talking to the Pakistan headquarters by opening his transmission in between. So, India was having a hard time catching these short messages. So, what was India doing at that time? When PNS Ghazi opened his transmission to send a message to Pakistan, India used to catch that small window and start sending powerful background signals at the frequency of the video.

This would make it difficult for PNS Ghazi and Pakistan to communicate. So, these short messages had to be repeated over and over again so that the location could be tracked for a longer period of time. So, this way, the Indian intelligence was able to find out the specific area of PNS Ghazi. But, the exact location of PNS Ghazi was still not known. But where exactly was his location in such a big ocean, he still didn't know. So, on 28th of November 1971, Ghazi had left Sri Lanka to complete his mission to kill INS Vikrant.

And after leaving Sri Lanka, he travels for 2 days and on 22nd of November 1971, he reaches Mad area of Madras and started searching for INS Vikrant. So when PNS Ghazi reached the area of Madras, the Eastern Naval Command of India, what they did was, they gave basic training to some people in the fishing community near the Madras port. In which they could see anything related to oil leak, snorkel or submarine trace. So these people would identify it

and report it to the nearest naval outpost. When PNS Ghazi reached Madras port and was looking for INS Vikrant, at the same time, some fishermen reported that they saw traces of a big submarine. So, the transmission details

and the intel of the fishing community, all these together, it was found that PNS Ghazi has now come somewhere near the Madras port. And as soon as Vice Admiral N Krishnan finds out about this, it was a very alarming situation. So, he had decided that INS Vikrant will have to shift from the Madras port.

Because before the war, he did not want to engage INS Vikrant with PNS Ghazi. So, he had an option to shift INS Vikrant to Vishakhapatnam port from Madras port. But after multiple discussions, it was decided that if they shift to Vishakhapatnam port, then like PNS Ghazi has reached Madras port, so Vishakhapatnam port will also reach there. So, it means that after shifting to Vishakhapatnam port, there is no guarantee that INS Vikrant will be safe. The same situation will repeat there.

Now, when all these discussions were going on, it is decided from here that there is a secret location near Andaman and Nikobar. Its codename was Port X-Ray. There was no population at all. The water was very clean and no one had any idea about this location. And the good thing was that it was near the Bay of Bengal.

So, in case a war starts and we shift INS Vikrant to a secret location, it will be easy to bring INS Vikrant to the Bay of Bengal. Secondly, the water was clear. So if a ship like PNS Ghazi comes there, it will be easy to track it and drop it. It will be clearly visible in the water. So after all these discussions, without wasting time, INS Vikrant was shifted to this secret location

which was code word, Port X-Ray. INS Vikrant was shifted but on the other side, the Madras Port, from that port, maintaining a distance of 12-15 miles,

PNS Ghazi, with the Pakistan Naval Headquarters, was continuously looking for INS Vikrant. And Pakistan Naval Headquarters was trying to find out the location of INS Vikrant from its various sources on the ground. And the smallest information that came,

it used to send PNS Ghazi through a secret code. So, in this way, by making a coordination, they were searching for INS Ghazi near Madras Port. And at the same time, a message was also sent from Pakistan Naval Headquarters. This is a copy of that message. It had a location between Papa, Karachi and the Arabian Sea.

It has been referred about that location. Similarly, the mic has been named as Madras. By sending such messages, they were coordinating with each other and were looking for INS Vikrant. Now, on one side, this Pakistan was looking for INS Vikrant near Madras port. On the other hand, Vice Admiral N. Krishnan wanted PNS Ghazi to come to Vishakhapatnam port instead of Madras port. It would be easier to kill him. Because Vishakhapatnam port had stronghold of Indian Navy.

Technical capability of Vishakhapatnam port was very good. Sonar, hydrophones, anti-submarine warfare equipment, all of these were here. And the geography was such that once Ghazi came here, the routes of natural escape would be very less with Ghazi. So it was easier to kill Ghazi near Vishakhapatnam. So now Vice Admiral N. Krishnan makes a plan from here. He deliberately talks on radio communication

as if Pakistan feels that INS Vikrant is near Vishakhapatnam port. He made a a basic encrypted communication so that Pakistan could easily crack it and trace this communication. And he thought that INS Vikran has come to Vishakhapatnam port. And along with this, he did one more thing. Around Vishakhapatnam port,

he deliberately ordered a lot of vegetable items in bulk. When big ships come, like the big ship INS Vikran, then there is a lot of need food and vegetables around the port. You have to keep it in bulk. So orders are also big. This was done at Vishakhapatnam port. It seemed as if a vegetable market had opened.

So many orders were placed. And because of this, this discussion started in the surrounding areas that INS Vikranth is going to come to Vishakhapatnam port. So the local Pakistani agents also got the message and they also sent this intel to Pakistan. So, this multiple attempt to make Pakistan believe that INS Fikran is at Vishakhapatnam port, on 25th of November 1971, this attempt was successful.

On this day, all these intel reached Pakistan Naval Headquarters and same day, that is, on 25th of November 1971, at 11.07 pm, he sent a secret message to PNS Ghazi. Occupy zone victory with full dispatch. Intelligence indicates carrier in port. This is a copy of that message. As soon as he received this message, Captain Zafar, without thinking twice, took this route and left for Vishakhapatnam port, which was 340 miles away from Madras.

And this time, when PNS Ghazi moves towards Vishakhapatnam port, the short messages he was talking about, the discussions he was having in Pakistan Naval Headquarters, he completely shuts them off. The radio is completely silent. Because he knew that India's Vishakhapatnam port is more high-tech.

It would be easier for Indians to get PNS Ghazi's signal there. So, on 25th of November 1971, while leaving Madras, PNS Ghazi moves towards Vishakhapatnam on complete radio silence. And on 27th of November 1971, at 10 pm, it reaches Vishakhapatnam port and starts searching for INS Vikrant. But the problem for the Indian Navy was that

the Indian Navy was unable to find PNS Ghazi after the Madras port? Because it was on complete radio silence. Nothing was known about it. Now when PNS Ghazi suddenly disappears, nothing is known about it. So the head of the Eastern Command of India, General Jacob, gets very worried. Multiple discussions start there.

He was afraid that the plan made by India has been known to Pakistan. What if the port reaches near X-ray and attacks INS Vikrant? Many discussions started at the Indian Navy's headquarters. If you look at the Vishakhapatnam port on the Indian map, it is here. If you zoom it, Vishakhapatnam port is in two parts. One is the inner harbour.

Ships are stationed here. Repair and maintenance work is also done parts. One is the inner harbour where ships are stationed and maintenance is done. This is the outer harbour. If you look here, there is brick water. It is made of concrete and stone. It controls the heavy waves and maintains security. If you look here, because of the brick water, this becomes the main entry and exit of Vishakhapatnam port. India which big ships of India come and go.

And PNS Ghazi had reached this entry. And after reaching here, PNS Ghazi's captain Zafar had three options. One option was that the inner harbor of Vishakhapatnam port, INS Vikrant should be searched from this side. And where INS Vikrant is seen, a torpedo, that is, an underwater missile, were fired at it. But Vishakhapatnam port's inner harbour had a low water level,

it was 15 metres deep. So, PNS Ghazi was caught here and he was blown away. So, PNS Ghazi could not go inside the port for more than 2.1 nautical miles. The second option was that he waits outside the outer harbour and when INS Vikrant arrives, the torpedoes, i.e. underwater missiles, fire on INS Vikrant and blow it up. And the third option was to place the mines

near the entry-exit of the big water break. So, the captain of PNS Ghazi, Zafar, decides that on one hand, he asks his team to wait for INS Vikrant from the periscope so that they can see whether INS Vikrant is coming or not. And until INS Vikrant. And until they get INS Vikrant, the main entry exit of Vishakhapatnam port

is used to lay mines. Now, there was a trick to lay mines. Whenever big ships like INS Vikrant move, a convoy moves ahead. So, if the mines are laid directly, the first ship of the convoy will come and hit the mine

and it will fly away. But INS Vikrant will survive. So these underwater mines, numbers are set inside them. Like if 10 numbers are set, then the ship will go 10 times, nothing will happen to it. And when the 11th ship will go,

then there will be an explosion. So according to all the details that Captain Zafar had, he sets 20 numbers on these mines and starts planting mines. The second team was continuously searching for Inez Vikrant with a periscope. So on 28th of November 1971, Captain Zafar starts planting the mines near the outer harbour. And he keeps a gap of 150 metres between each mine and maintains a depth of 30 metres.

And it takes at least 30 to 50 minutes to plant one mine. So within 40 to 50 minutes, he plants his first mine. And then he starts up his first mine. And then he starts setting up the second mine. And as soon as he sets up the second mine, the other team, who were keeping an eye on the periscope, were looking for INS Vikrant, they see a ship coming from far away.

Actually, it wasn't INS Vikrant, it was INS Magar, which was coming to Vishakhapatnam port for its normal repair work. He sees it coming from far away. He thinks that he will plant another mine till it comes near. But here he makes a miscalculation. By the time he plants another mine, it comes near the ship. And as soon as it comes near, PNS Ghazi is asked to dive to the left side in an emergency. Otherwise, it would have collided.

And as soon as Ghazi, who weighs more than 2400 tons, suddenly dives, he gets stuck there. He tries a lot to get out, but he can't. And some metal parts of one side of the gauze break and go into the water. And because its shock was so strong, the position of the torpedo tubes in the gauze,

from where underwater missiles are fired, all of them move. So PNS Ghazi was trapped. Along with that, there was also a fear that the missiles could be fired at any time. And the location you are seeing, PNS Ghazi was trapped here. The exact coordinates of this location were

17°40.8'N 83°21'E. The second mine could not be planted, but the one mine that they had planted, it remained like that. It exploded in 1972, but it did not not at this time. Ghazi was stuck here on 28th, 29th and 30th November.

For 3 days, no contact was made with Ghazi at Pakistan Naval Headquarters. They had no idea where Ghazi was. Now, look, the submarines have 2 logbooks. One is navigation log, which records the journey, time, position, speed of the submarine. The other is operational and engineering log, which records the entire journey, time, position, speed of the submarine The second is the operational and engineering log, which records the functions and actions of the submarine The navigation log was at the same place, but the operational and engineering log was maintained

This confirmed that the submarine was stuck here, but it was still active The fact that the submarine was not able to contact the PNS Ghazi was a big problem for Pakistan. Airspace was closed. The normal sea route was under blast due to Operation X. Ships were afraid to go to the other side. Mukti Bani had already started guerilla warfare in East Pakistan.

And the PNS Ghazi sent to deal with all this had also disappeared. So, in a way, Pakistan had also accepted that PNS Ghazi might have drowned. So, now Pakistan does not take any further action from here. So, East Pakistan was almost cut off from West Pakistan. So, Pakistan took a decision from here that on 3rd of December 1971, it would start a war on India.

Now, the time of 3rd of December 1971 was set that this day war should be waged. But, two days before this, on 1st of December 1971, they sent a secret message to East Pakistan. In which they completely forbid the arrival of the merchant ships and aircrafts in East Pakistan to the Bay of Bengal. And Pakistan's luck is so bad that this message is also caught by the Indian intelligence. And India comes to know that Pakistan is going to attack India.

Now, it was already decided in this war that the role of INS Vikrant is very important. And because India had already known that this war could happen anytime, so INS Vikrant was forced to be brought to Bay of Bengal from this secret location. But the problem was that the Indian Navy knew nothing about PNS Ghazi. They had no idea that he was trapped somewhere. Actually, no one knew where he was. It was assumed that PNS Ghazi was waiting for INazi was hiding in Bay of Bengal and waiting for INS Vikrant. And when Pakistan war will start, PNS Ghazi will be active.

So INS Vikrant was to be brought to Bay of Bengal and also to be saved from PNS Ghazi. So to deal with this, what was done was that there was an old destroyer ship, INS Rajput. It was at Vishakhapatnam port. It had to be decommissioned. It was to be removed from active duty. It was old. This new INS Rajput is not that. It is different. It was bought by the Britishers in 1949. So, Vice Admiral N. Krishnan made a plan

that instead of bringing such a direct INS Vikrant to the Bay of Bengal, INS Rajput can be brought as a decoy of INS Vikrant. And this will confuse PNS Ghazi, who is roaming in Bay of Bengal, will get confused. He will think INS Rajput as INS Vikrant and will attack Pakistan on INS Rajput. Now this plan was very good,

but it was a deadly mission for the entire INS Rajput team. In this, INS Rajput will turn on its signals and go to Bay of Bengal so that PNS Ghazi can catch it. In this mission, the chances of INS Rajput returning were very low. So now, after making this plan, INS Rajput's captain Indra Singh is called and told that such PNS Ghazi has come to Bay of Bengal to kill INS Vikrant from Pakistan.

He is roaming freely. He is exactly where he is, we don't know. But if he has caused any harm to INS Vikrant, then he can have an impact on India and Pakistan's defeat the victory. And if anything happens to INS Vikrant, the morale of the entire Indian Navy will be down. So INS Rajput's captain Ind Singh didn't even think for a second and said

whether I will come back or not, INS Rajput will definitely come back. And the entire INS Rajput team, without thinking, started the preparation for this deadly mission. And the very next day, on 2nd of December 1971, INS Rajput, immediately became the decoy of INS Vikrant and started going from Vishakhapatnam port to Madras route, where they thought PNS Ghazi could be found.

On the way, the volume of INS Rajput's signals was kept very high so that PNS Ghazi could be picked easily. The signals of big aircrafts like INS Vikrant are always high. Along with this, fake radio communication was also done and it was said that INS Vikrant is coming towards Madras, start preparing. Even the Naval Officer in charge of Madras Port, Captain Duckworth, N Krishnan made an open call to him and said that INS Vikrant is coming to Madras, make a place to stand.

And when Captain Duckworth got this message, he was very surprised that N Krishnan made such a big mistake. He openly said this line. After this, for a long time, INS Rajput switched on the signal and roamed the entire route. But nothing happened. Now see, in the beginning I told you that when Ghazi hit the sea floor, some metal parts broke and fell and they started floating in the water. So the metal parts were given to the Indian Navy by the fishing community who were already trained.

And when N Krishnan reviewed these metal parts, it found out that this is the part of PNS Ghazi. And from here N Krishnan assumed that PNS Ghazi has sunk and INS Vikrant is safe now. It can be brought to Bay of Bengal. And INS Rajput, who was roaming around for so long with his signal on, is asked to come back. 3rd of December, 1971, came. On this day, INS Vikrant had reached the Bay of Bengal. And Pakistan and India, both had considered PNS Ghazi as drowned.

But PNS Ghazi was not drowned. He was stuck near Vishakhapatnam port. PNS Ghazi's captain, team, all were alive. And then, same day, 3rd of December, 1971, Pakistan starts the war in 1971. India's 8 airfields, Amritsar, Ambala, Agra, Avantipur, Pathankot, Srinagar, all these places are attacked back to back.

In a dramatic escalation of hostilities, Indian forces have launched coordinated strikes across East Pakistan today, as refugees continue to pour into India. It could be shaped South Asia.

And what does the Indian Navy do? Its Eastern Fleet, including INS Vikram, puts it towards East Pakistan and completely blocks the naval. Now, there is a war going on on one side. On the other side, PNS Ghazi is trapped down there.

And on the third side, INS Rajput, from the route of Vishakhapatnam, the direction where Ghazi was trapped, starts coming back from that side. So that the Eastern Fleet can join them. Now at 11.40 at night, when INS Rajput was returning and reaches Vishakhapatnam Port where Ghazi was trapped

So the team inside the gold room of INS Rajput detected gold vibrations on the right side i.e. detected sound waves and pressure disturbance This vibration was actually of Ghazi who was trying to come up again and again. Now, because war was going on between India and Pakistan, the INS Rajput team did not take any risk.

The location from which the vibration was coming, Captain Indra Singh reached there and fired two depth charges. These are very heavy. When these two depth charges were fired, there was a very strong blast. And the people around them, there was a slight earthquake in their homes. Heavy vibration started in this entire sea area. And because of this, the torpedo tubes in Ghazi, which had already moved from their location, they fire on their own.

So it also makes a loud noise. Now where it went, we didn't know. But it fires with a very loud sound. And then after a while, the INS Rajput team saw that the place from where the vibration was coming, it stops. And the captain of INS Rajput,

sends all these details to NKrishnan and moves ahead. Now, the next day, in the morning, the local fishermen from the same area, they get metal and life jackets. On those life jackets, it was written U.S.S. Diablo. This name was earlier of Ghazi when it was near the USA. Now when this thing is found, then the next day, on the morning of 4th of December 1971, at 12.15 am, at the same location where INS Rajput had charged two deaths,

there INS Akshay and the Command Clearance Diving Team were sent. What they do is, they have photographs of PNS Ghazi from every angle. They take them with them and go down at the same place and match the submarine from every angle and then on 5th of December 1971 at 9.14pm they confirm that below 17 degree

40.8 minutes north 83 degree 21 minutes east the sunken submarine is PNS Ghazi. After this multiple teams went to do analysis of Ghazi When PNS Ghazi. After this, multiple teams went to analyze Ghazi. When PNS Ghazi was opened, dead bodies were found inside it. A book was also found, which was named Hydrographic Correction Book.

PNS Ghazi was written on it. Ghazi's log book was found. The watch was found, which was stopped at 12.15 exactly when INS Rajput had fired. Along with this, the conversations that took place, the secret codes that were transferred, PNS Ghazi and Pakistan Naval Headquarters, those secret codes were also found. Identity proofs were found, some logbooks were found, machine info, all this information is collected

and sent to the Indian Navy Headquarters. Deep analysis is done, everything is matched. And then after that, this whole story that I am telling you comes out. This is Ghazi's original photograph. And when everything is matched, this complete detail is confirmed.

After that, our defence minister, what happened to Ghazi in the parliament, he tells everyone. After the end of PNS Ghazi, the war of 1971, in that, INS Vikrant played a very big role.

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