_RAJPUT NISHAN-E-HAIDER
HOLDERS
__Nishan-e-Haider
Pilot Office
Rashid Minhas Shaheed
Date of
Shahadat: 20 August 1971
Age: 20
years
Major Raja Aziz
Bhatti Shaheed
Date of Shahadat:10
september 1965
Age: 37
years
Major Tufail
Muhammad Shaheed
Date of Shahadat:
17 August 1958
Age: 44
years
Jawan Sawar
Muhammad Hussain Shaheed
Date of
Shahadat: 10 sep 1971
Age: 22
years
Captain Muhammad
Sarwer Shaheed
Date of Shahadat: 27
july 1948
Age: 38
years
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.
Other Nishan-e-Haider holders are Major Mohammad Akram Shaheed, Lance Naik Muhammad Mahfooz Shaheed, Major Shabbir Sharif Shaheed, Captain Karnal Sher Khan Shaheed and Havaldaar Lalak Jan Shaheed.