Only a month of assuming his role as Chief of Naval Staff , Adm. Bashir faced the major crises with neighboring India after the deadly attacks were perpetuated in Mumbai on November 2008 . Adm. Bashir high-alerted the Navy and deployed the combatant commands of the Navy to protect the naval vicinity of Sindh and Balochistan . Initially , Adm. Bashir denied that the terrorists who attacked the city had not used the sea routes from Pakistan to reach the city . In a pressing briefing at the ISPR , Adm. Bashir maintained that : " We have no evidence whatsoever that Ajmal Kasab had gone to India from Pakistani waters . The Indian Navy is much larger than ours , and if Ajmal Kasab had gone from here , then what were their Coast Guards doing , and why did they did not stop the terrorists ? . " His statement was widely criticized by Indian government and Indian Defence Minister A. K. Antony strongly rebutted his statement
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