Vice Admiral Ahmad Tasnim, HI(M), SJ (Bar), SBt, is a now-retired three-star naval officer who is most famous as the Commander of the PNS Hangor when it sunk the INS Khukri at 20:00 hrs on 8 December 1971 during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, off the coast of Diu, Gujarat, India. (This was the first submarine kill since World War II, and the only one until a Royal Navy nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sank an Argentine cruiser General Belgrano during the Falklands War.) He is also only officer in Pakistan Navy to have been awarded Sitara-e-Jurat (SJ) and Bar.