Hasan Hafeez Ahmed (Urdu:حسن حفيظ احمد; b.

Hassan Hafeez Ahmad was born in Multan, Punjab, British India, in 1926.: 3 [1] He was educated in a local school in Multan and was a contemporary of Mansoor Shah who would later join the Pakistan Air Force in 1947.: 288–289 [3] After his high school graduation in 1943, he joined the Royal Indian Navy as a petty officer and participated in World War II.

: 3 [1] He continued his training with the Royal Navy and specialized in technical naval courses from the United Kingdom in 1947-49.: 3 [1] In 1964, he attended the Joint Service Defence College in Latimer Buckinghamshire, England, and subsequently graduated with a joint staff degree in 1965.: 3 [1] Upon his return, he was posted in Ministry of Defence as an undersecretary as a Director of Naval Operations and participated in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965.: 3 [1] After the war, he was posted to the Pakistan Embassy in Washington D.C. as a military attaché which he remained until 1966.: 3 [1] In 1970, he was appointed as the first commandant of the Pakistan Naval Academy as a Commodore and was appointed as Commander Coast in 1971 as a Rear-Admiral.

: 76–77 [7] As a naval chief, his task was to reconstruct and rebuild the navy into a formidable force.

: 46 [8] In a short spa of time, he transformed the Navy into three-dimensional force when he commissioned the naval aviation and commissioning the new Navy NHQ in Rawalpindi in the vicinity of Army GHQ in 1974.: 46 [8] On 8 March 1975, he died from sickness unexpectedly while serving as naval chief and commanding the navy, at the age of 49.: 44 [9] He was the first of three chief's of staff who died in the office- the others being General Asif Nawaz and Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir.