dbo:abstract
- The PNS Karsaz is the naval station and the largest technical training facility located in the urban neighborhood of Karsaz in Karachi that provides technical education on the subjects of the mechanics and the electronics for the Navy's enlisted personnel upon their passing out from the PNS Himalaya— the Navy's only basic training boot camp in Manora Island in Karachi coast, Sindh in Pakistan. The PNS Karsaz serves to its purpose of conducting the instructional basis vocational education that ranges from the basic–to-mid–to–advance level professional courses on mechanics and military electronics for its Operations Branch. Established with the assistance from the U.S. Navy in 1954, the PNS Karsaz is a well established and a large complex of covering the 45.5 acres (1,980,000 sq ft) that consists of a single administration building and four vocation schools including the auditorium, library on military history, and dormitory that houses its personnel. Training on military electronics and mechanics does not restrict to the Navy's enlisted personnel but enlisted personnel from Marines, Army, and Air Force have been educated, certified, and earned their badges of qualifications from the PNS Karsaz. Besides providing career training to the Pakistani military's enlisted personnel on mechanics and electronics, the PNS Karsaz has provided crucial training to the friendly nations and enlisted members from the navies of, Jordan, Maldives, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Sri Lanka. (en)