Narbada was transferred to Pakistan in 1948 after the Partition of India, and served as PNS Jhelum.

HMIS Narbada was ordered in 1940 as a part of the 1940 Build Program for the Royal Indian Navy.

With World War II underway, she was deployed as an escort to multiple Allied convoys en route to Bombay.

In February, she supported the landing of the 53rd Indian Infantry Brigade at Ryuwa with HMS Flamingo and HMIS Jumna.

At the end of World War II, after the Surrender of Japan, she sailed to Andaman waters and her commanding officer Martin Henry St. Leger Nott accepted the surrender of the Japanese Brigadier in command of the Car Nicobar garrison onboard the ship.