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Muhammad Sarwer Shaheed |
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Major Raja
Aziz Bhatti Shaheed |
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Born 1910, Village Sanghori
Commissioned into the Punjab Regiment, 1944.
During the Kashmir Operations soon after the birth of
Pakistan, as Company Commander in the 2nd Battalion of the Punjab
Regiment, Captain Sarwar launched an attack causing heavy casualties
against a strongly fortified enemy position in the Uri Sector under
heavy machine-gun, grenade and mortar fire.
But on 27 July 1948, as he moved
forward with six of his men to cut their way through a barbed wire
barrier, he died when his chest was riddled by a burst of automatic
fire. He was 38 years old.
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Born 1928 in Hong Kong.
Commissioned into the Punjab Regiment, 1950.
On 6 September 1965, as Company Commander in the Burki
area of the Lahore sector, Major Bhatti chose to move with his forward
platton under incessant artillery and tank attacks for five days and
nights in the defence of the strategic BRB canal.
Throughout, undaunted by constant fire from enemy shell
arms, tanks and artillery, he organized the defence of the canal,
directing his men to answer the fire until he was hit by an enemy tank
shell which killed him on 10 September 1965. He was 37
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Major Tufail Muhammad Shaheed |
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Pilot Office Rashid Minhas Shaheed
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Born 1914 in Hoshiarpur.
Commissioned into the 16th Punjab Regiment, 1943.
Early in August, 1958, Major Tufail, a Company Commander
in the East Pakistan Rifles, and his patrol encircled an Indian post in
the Lakshmipur area. And, though mortally wounded in the hand-to-hand
encounter that followed, Major Tufail continued to lead his troops till
the Indians were driven out, leaving four dead and three prisoners.
He died the same day on 7 August 1958
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Born 17 February 1951
Ccommissioned as a pilot in the Pakistan Air Force.
Pilot Officer Minhas was taxiing for take-off on a
routine traning flight when an Instructor Pilot forced his way into the
rear cockpit, seized control of the aircraft and took off. When Minhas
realized that the absconding pilot was heading towards India, he tried
to regain control of the plane but was unable to do so.
Knowing that it meant certin death, he damaged tha
controls and forced the aircraft to crash thirty two miles short of the
border on 20 August 1971. He died at the age of 20. |
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Solder Sawar Muhammad Hussain Shaheed
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Major Muhammad Akram Shaheed |
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Born 18th June 1949 in Dhok Pir Baksh
(now Dhok Mohammad Husain Janjua).
Enlisted as a driver on 3 September 1966.
Although only a driver in the 20th Lancers, when war
broke out in 1971, Sowar Mohammad Hussein took an active part in every
battle in which his unit was engaged unmindful of any danger, no matter
how grave.
When he spotted the enemy digging in along a minefield
near the village of Harar Khurd in December 1971 on his own initiative
he directed accurate fire at the enemy resulting in the destruction of
sixteen enemy tanks.
But while directing fire from recoilless rifles, he was
hit in the chest by a burst of machine-gun fire and died on 10
December 1971 at the age of 22.
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Born 4 April 1938 in Dingha, Gujrat
District.
Commissioned in the Frontier Force Regiment on 13 October 1963.
Major Mohammad Akram and a company of 4 FF Regiment
which he commanded in the forward area in Hilli district, in East
Pakistan in 1971, came under incessant air, artillery and armour
attacks.
But for an entire fortnight, despite enemy superiority
in both numbers and fire power, he and his men repulsed every attack,
inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy.
Major Akram died during this epic battle in 1971
at the age of 33. |
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Lance Naik Muhammad Mahfooz Shaheed |
Major Shabbir Sharif Shaheed |
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Born 25 October 1944 in Pind Malikan
(now Mahfuzabad), Rawalpindi district.
Enlisted in the Army on 25 October 1962.
Serving in 'A' Company of 15 Punjab Regiment when war
broke out in 1971, Lance Naik Mohammad Mahfuz was deployed on the
Wagha-Attari Sector in East Pakistan where his company was pinned down
by unceasing frontal and crossfire from automatic weapons.
Although his machine gun was destroyed by an enemy
shell, Mahfuz advanced towards an enemy bunker whose automatic fire had
inflicted heavy casualties. Even though wounded in both legs by shell
splinters, when he reached the bunker he stood up and pounced on the
enemy, but was hit.
Although unarmed, he caught hold of one enemy was slowly
strangling him when another bayoneted him to death during the night on
17 December 1971. He was 27 years old.
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Born 28 April 1943 in Kunjah, Gujrat
District.
Commissioned into the Frontier Force Regiment on 19 April 1964.
Major Shabbir Shariff as commander of a company of 6 FF
Regiment, was ordered in December 1971 to capture high ground near
Sulemanki than a company of the Assam Regiment supported by a squardon
of tanks.
In a wellnigh superhuman action, for the next three days
and nights after crossing a minefield and massive obstacles and killing
forty-three soldiers and destroying four tanks, Major Sharif and his men
held two enemy battalions at bay.
But after he took over an anti-tank gun from his gunner
in an attack was killed by a direct hit in the afternoon of 6
December. He was 28 years old. |
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Captain Karnal Sher Khan Shaheed |
Havaldaar Lalak Jan Shaheed
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Enlisted: 1990, Second Lt.
Captain Karnal Sher joined those eight legendary heroes
who received the highest military award of Nishan-i-Haider for laying
down their lives in defence of the beloved motherland.
Captain Karnal Sher Khan emerged as the symbol of mettle
and courage during the Kargil conflict on the Line of Control (LoC). He
set personal examples of bravery and inflicted heavy losses on the
enemy. He defended the five strategic posts, which he established with
his jawans at the height of some 17,000 feet at Gultary, and repulsed
many Indian attacks.
After many abortive attempts, the enemy on July 5 ringed
the post of Capt. Sher Khan with the help of two battalion and unleashed
heavy mortar firing and managed to capture some part of the post.
Despite facing all odds, he lead a counter-attack and re- captured the
lost parts.
But during the course he was hit by the machine-gun fire
and embraced Shahadat at the same post. He is the first officer from the
NWFP province to be awarded with Nishan-i-Haider. |
Hav. Lalak Jan of the Northern Light Infantry (NLI) was
one of those many who as a junior leader fought from the forefront to
thwart heavy Indian attacks. He volunteered himself to be deployed on
the front positions located at the jagged peak in May 1999.
Hav. Lalak driven back many aggressive ventures by the
enemy and imposed colossal losses on them. On July 7, Hav. Lalak
sustained serious injuries as enemies pounded the area with heavy mortar
shelling.
But despite being injured, he retained his position and
frustrated the Indian assault. He, however, succumbed to his injuries at
the same post he was defending. Hav.
Lalak was awarded with the Nishan-i-Haider for his
dauntless courage and devotion. |
