The Pakistan Navy Station Qasim ( reporting name: PNS Qasim), is a naval base located in Manora Island, off the Karachi coast in Sindh, Pakistan. While serving as a military

logistics Logistics is the part of supply chain management that deals with the efficient forward and reverse flow of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the Consumption (economics), point of consumption according to the ...

base for the Pakistan Marines, PNS ''Qasim'' also provides initial military training to Pakistan Marines, a maritime land warfare branch of the

Pakistan Navy The Pakistan Navy (PN) (; ''romanized'': Pākistān Bahrí'a; ) is the naval warfare branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces. The Chief of the Naval Staff, a four-star admiral, commands the navy and is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Com ...

. The base is named after the Arab general

Muhammad bin Qasim Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim al-Thaqafī (; –) was an Arabs, Arab military commander in service of the Umayyad Caliphate who led the Muslim conquest of Sindh (and Punjab, part of ancient Sindh), inaugurating the Umayyad campaigns in India. His m ...

who conquered Daybul and the coastal areas of Sindh around 712 CE.

History

On 14 April 1990, the

re-formed and re-commissioned its land-based maritime fighting unit as Pakistan Marines to address and provide a coastal defense by headquartering it Fort Manora in Manora Island, off the Karachi coast. Originally, the Marines were formed in 1971 to provide a company strength unit to the Eastern Command based in former East-Pakistan.Marine Corps
/ref> Initially started in PNS Dhaka, it was roughly modeled on the British

Royal Marines The Royal Marines provide the United Kingdom's amphibious warfare, amphibious special operations capable commando force, one of the :Fighting Arms of the Royal Navy, five fighting arms of the Royal Navy, a Company (military unit), company str ...

and mandate to conduct the riverine and amphibious military operations but lost its prominence in 1974. Addressing the need for coastal defense, the 1st Marines Battalion were formed by the Navy in PNS Himalaya and later Navy moved the Marines permanently in PNS Qasim in Manora Island on 25 November 1990.

Organizations

Marines Training Centre

The Marines Training Centre (MTC) is an initial military training school to provide basic and advanced training for the Pakistan Marines. The Marines Training Centre was established in 1990 with the Pakistan Army's instructors were the first faculty to serve on. Since 2000, the navy has been running the training operations though the army's instructors still continue to provide advanced instruction as faculty members. Since 1998, the Marines Training Centre also serves as the headquarters of the Naval Police, and conducts basic and refresher training for navy's military police units.

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PNS Qasim
{{Military training in Pakistan Qasim Military installations in Karachi Qasim Military logistics of Pakistan