 During his career, the Danish has held several important command and staff appointments including command of two destroyers namely "PNS Babur" and "PNS Tariq", being one of the few naval officers to have held command of two naval destroyers simultaneously.He is also the only Naval officer to ever receive the Chief of Air Staff Trophy based on his exceptional flying skills.He also served as Commander Naval Aviation and Commandant Pakistan Naval War College and in that regard served on the Board of Governors of Bahria University.