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There Are Recipients of Nishan-E - Haider

This document lists the 10 recipients of Pakistan's highest military honor, Nishan-e-Haider. It provides brief biographies of each recipient, including their rank, date and place of birth, military career details, and the circumstances of their heroic actions that led to them receiving the honor. The recipients include Captain Muhammad Sarwar, Major Tufail Muhammad, Major Raja Aziz Bhatti, Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas, Jawan Sawar Muhammad Hussain, Major Muhammad Akram, Lance Naik Muhammad Mahfooz, Major Shabbir Sharif, Captain Karnal Sher Khan, and Havaldaar Lalak Jan.

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There Are Recipients of Nishan-E - Haider

This document lists the 10 recipients of Pakistan's highest military honor, Nishan-e-Haider. It provides brief biographies of each recipient, including their rank, date and place of birth, military career details, and the circumstances of their heroic actions that led to them receiving the honor. The recipients include Captain Muhammad Sarwar, Major Tufail Muhammad, Major Raja Aziz Bhatti, Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas, Jawan Sawar Muhammad Hussain, Major Muhammad Akram, Lance Naik Muhammad Mahfooz, Major Shabbir Sharif, Captain Karnal Sher Khan, and Havaldaar Lalak Jan.

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THERE ARE 10 RECIPIENTS OF NISHAN-

E- HAIDER

Captain Pilot
Major Tufail Major Raja Officer
Muhammad
Muhammad Aziz
Sarwar
Bhatti Rashid

Minhas

Lance Naik Jawan


Major Major
Muhammad Sowar
Shabbir Mohammad
Mahfooz Muhammad
Sharif Akram
Hussain

Captain
Karnal Sher Havaldaar
Khan Lalak
Jan
• Captain Muhammad Sarwer
Shaheed

• 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.
Major Tufail
Muhammad
Shaheed
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 at the age of


44.
Major Raja Aziz
Bhatti Shaheed

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 years old.
Pilot Office
Rashid Minhas
Shaheed

Born 17 February 1951


Commissioned as a pilot in the Pakistan Air Force.
Pilot Officer Minhas was taxiing for take-off on a routine
training 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 certain death, he damaged the 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.
Jawan Sawar
Muhammad Hussain
Shaheed

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, Sawar 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.
Major
Muhammad
Akram Shaheed
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.
Lance Naik
Muhammad
Mahfooz Shaheed
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.
Major Shabbir
Sharif
Shaheed
• Major Shabbir Sharif Shaheed 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.
Captain Karnal
Sher Khan
Shaheed
Captain Karnal Sher Khan ShaheedEnlisted: 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.
Havaldaar
Lalak Jan
Shaheed
Havaldaar Lalak Jan Shaheed 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.

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