Moazzam Ilyas

Rear Admiral Muhammad Moazzam Ilyas (Urdu: محمد معظم الياس; b. 10 May 1965) HI(M), SI(M) is a serving two-star rank officer in the Pakistan Navy.

Biography
He joined the Pakistan Navy in 1980 and commissioned in the term 82-A.

He is a graduate of Joint Command and Staff College Shrivenham, UK. He has master's degrees in Defence Studies from Kings College, London and Strategic Studies from Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.

Commands and Military Life
His command appointments include commands of two Destroyers Badr & Babur as well as three missile boats named PNS Jalalat, Himmat and Haibat.

He has also served as Naval and Air Attache at Tehran, Iran from 2006 to 2009. From there, he was promoted to Commodore in 2009.

Ashore he has served as Assistant Chief of Naval Staff Operations (ACNS-Ops), Chief Staff Officer to Commander Pakistan Fleet (CSO to COMPAK), as well as Assistant Chief of Naval Staff Plans (ACNS-P). Afterwards, he was appointed to Commander North (COMNOR), from where he was promoted to Rear Admiral.

Rear Admiral Moazzam took over command of Combined Task Force 150 from August 2015 to January 2016.

He was made Deputy Chief of Naval Staff Training and Evaluation (DCNS T&E) in 2016 and then served as Commandant of the Pakistan Naval War College and Commander Central Punjab (COMCEP) in Lahore.

He was appointed Commander Coastal Areas (COMCOAST) from 1 November 2017.