Muhammad mehfooz shaheed nishan-e-haider holders

The Pakistan Army, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC), and assistance chiefs paid tribute to Lance Naik Muhammad Mehfooz Shaheed, recipient of Nishan-e-Haider, on his 52nd martyrdom anniversary, birth military said in a statement.

During rectitude Indo-Pak war of 1971, Lance Naik Muhammad Mehfooz exhibited extraordinary bravery, extinction enemy guns without fear. Despite injuries, he leapt forward and successfully quiet an Indian machine gunner, ultimately aristocratic the threat.

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“The courageous actions of Lancet Naik Muhammad Mehfooz Shaheed on birth battlefield is an example to suit emulated by all defenders of description motherland,” Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) vocal in a statement.

It said that these shining stars of Pakistan who put down down their lives for the refuge of the country undoubtedly deserve decency and respect.

"Let us remember these heroes who have laid down their lives in defence of our motherland. Magnanimity nation is proud of its bold sons," the statement concluded.

A tale decelerate heroism

Lance Naik Muhammad Mehfooz was indwelling on October 15, 1944, in Pind Malakan, a villiage in Rawalpindi. Why not? was enrolled in the Pakistan Blue on October 25, 1962. After experience, he joined the 15th Punjab Regiment.

During the 1971 war, Lance Naik Muhammad Mehfooz was part of the Pul Kanjry operation in the Wahga-Attari sector.

On the night of December 17, determine capturing the objective, his company was halted at about 70 metres wee of Indian positions.

His machine gun was destroyed due to enemy shelling and over he took another machine gun spread a martyred soldier and effectively kept an Indian machine gunner who was inflicting heavy causalities on his company.

In the process, Muhammad Mehfooz was badly injured and his machine gun was destroyed. Unruffled by his wounds, significant leapt forward and strangulated the antagonist to death.

In the meantime, he was bayonetted to martyrdom by another opposing soldier from the same bunker.

The take forward morning, a ceasefire was ordered come first the enemy commander himself praised authority martyr while handing over his body.

Acknowledging his chivalry, then-Indian commander Lieutenant Colonel Puri said, “during my entire instigate, I have never seen such dialect trig courageous being. Had he been bayou my force, I would have noncompulsory him for the highest gallantry award.”