Shamoon Alam Khan was born in
Shillong,
Meghalaya in
India, into an
Urdu-speaking family, and his father, Mahboob Alam Khan, was an officer in the
Indian Civil Service who worked at an administration position at the
Survey of India. His mother, Nisa Begum, was a
housewife. Eventually, Mahboob Alam found the employment at the
Survey of Pakistan. In 1967,
Lt. Shamoon joined the
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and was posted in
East Pakistan, working on the
intelligence gathering. In 1970–71,
Lt-Cdr. Shamoon moved his ISI office in
Comilla, and took participation in briefing the formations of
Pakistan Marines and special forces of
Army and
Navy to commence offence on approaching
Indian Army. During the height of the
civil insurgency in
East-Pakistan,
Lt-Cdr. Shamoon volunteered into the entrance in the
Navy Special Service Group and was a commanding officer of the
Navy SEAL Team that conducted a
reconnaissance mission to gain knowledge on the
Indian Army's movement near the
Rangamati, leading to insert the
Pakistan Marines battalions, and later made a way to secure intelligence on the
Kaptai Dam. His first diplomatic assignment included
Capt. Shamoon's appointment as a
Naval attache' at the
Pakistan Embassy in
Beijing in 1981. In 1983,
Capt. Shamoon was promoted as a
one-star rank admiral in the Navy, and was selected to attend a year-long staff course at the
Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS) in
London. In 1993,
R-Adm. Shamoon was promoted to the
three-star rank, and eventually appointed senior fleet commander of the
Pakistan Fleet.
V-Adm. Shamoon played a vital role increasing the security role of the
ISI in sea-based operations while strengthening
coastal defence by empowering the
MSA's capabilities in search and rescue operations. In 1995,
V-Adm. Shamoon eventually sought his retirement after completing 40-years of military service. After his retirement, Shamoon joined the
Foreign Service, and was appointed
Pakistan Ambassador to Tunisia in 1995, which he served until 1997. In 2001, Shamoon was appointed and sent as a
Pakistan Ambassador to Ukraine, which he served until 2004. ==See also==