Education
A graduate of Military College Jhelum (College No. 2178), Mirza was sent to attend the Pakistan Military Academy and went navy-army training with the 29th PMA Long Course, along with Pervez Musharraf (Mirza's lifelong friend) and Ali Kuli Khan. Mirza shared the same dorm room with Musharraf during his college life and together with Musharraf graduated from the Pakistan Military Academy in 1964. After completing the Navy surface course, Mirza was commissioned in Pakistan Navy in 1965 as Sub-Lieutenant in the 18th Destroyer Squadron. Mirza served in the 1965 war and the 1971 war where he led the joint operations with Musharraf against the Indian Army.
In 1970s, Mirza was sent to attend the National Defence University in Islamabad, where he graduated with the double M.Sc. in War studies and Strategic studies. In 1989, as Commander, he served as an Adjunct professor at the Pakistan Navy War College and joined the faculty of defence studies. Later, he was assigned to the Pakistan Navy Academy in 1990 as a professor of English Literature, where as Captain, Mirza served as the teaching faculty at the Pakistan Naval Academy.
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