As the Ghazi closed in for the kill, the Kakra launched a counterattack, firing a torpedo that struck and sank the Ghazi. The Pakistani destroyer sank in the early hours of December 23, 1971, taking 234 crew members with her.
Captain Rizwan did not speak much afterward. When he did, his voice was not the order-giving voice but something that's been stripped back to a human timbre. He sat with the families, with survivors, and with the grieving. Latif took apart engines and remade them, as if repair could stitch a life back together. Sameer refused to look at the sonar images for weeks, and when he finally did, his hands trembled only a little less. hdhub4u the ghazi attack