INDO-PAK WAR of 1965 - Naval Hostilities
Naval hostilities The navies of India and Pakistan did not play a prominent role in the war of 1965, although Pakistani accounts dispute this. [ 35 ] On September 7, a flotilla of the Pakistani Navy carried out a small scale bombardment of the Indian coastal town and radar station of Dwarka , which was 200 miles (300 km) south of the Pakistani port of Karachi . Codenamed Operation Dwarka , it did not fulfill its primary objective of disabling the radar station and there was no immediate retaliatory response from India. Later, some of the Indian fleet sailed from Bombay to Dwarka to patrol the area and deter further bombardment. Foreign authors have noted that the "insignificant bombardment" [ 36 ] of the town was a "limited engagement, with no strategic value." [ 35 ] According to some Pakistani sources, one submarine, PNS Ghazi , kept the Indian Navy 's aircraft carrier INS Vikrant besieged in Bomb...