 This was the first submarine kill since World War II, and the only one until a Royal Navy's "Conqueror" sank an Argentine cruiser "General Belgrano" during the Falklands War fought in 1980s.In 1990s, he was appointed chairman of the Karachi Port Trust and the Pakistan National Shipping Corporation while serving in the Navy until retiring from his service in 1994.In an interview conducted by A.H. Amin, Ahmad Tasnim stated that he was born in a village, Mianwal, located in Jalandhar district, East Punjab in British India, into an Arain Punjabi family in 1935.