Fasih Bokhari

Fasih Bokhari (Urdu: فصىح بخارى; NI (military)) is a retired four-star admiral and ex-chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), an anti-corruption bureau of Government of Pakistan.

Before appointed chairman of NAB, Bokhari was the fourteenth Chief of Naval Staff, serving from 1997 until voluntarily resigning from the Navy under protest. His resignation came to public limelight after Prime minister Navaz Sharif approved the controversial appointment of the Chief of Army Staff General Pervez Musharraf, who was a much junior military officer to Admiral Bokhari, to the prestigious four-star assignment, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. On October 10, 2011, Bokhari was nominated as the Chairman of National Accountability Bureau by President Asif Ali Zardari, and secured the appointment by Prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani the same year.

Navy career

Indo-Pakistani war (1965-71)

Bokhari joined the Pakistan naval service on January 1, 1959 and was sent to Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, United Kingdom where he did a BSc in Military science. After completing his naval training, Bokhari was immediately given commission in the Pakistan Navy on May 1962 and promoted to the rank of Sub-Lieutenant. In 1964, Bokhari was assigned into the Submarine Service Force and served in the Ghazi. His first combat experience took place in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 with India where he saw action in the Rann of Kutch Operation, and the attack on Dwarka. He then served as the torpedo officer in the Ghazi, commanded by her commanding officer Commander Karamat Rahman Niazi.