Death Anniversary of Rashid Minhaas

Today is Youm-e-Shahadat of Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas. Please click on the link below for more details
Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas

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Death Anniversary of MM Alam

8th March... Today is the 1st 

death anniversary of Great MM ALAM...

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Muhammad Mahmood Alam

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Muhammad Mahmood Alam

 Muhammad Mahmood Alam (Urdu: محمد محمود عالم‎) (known as "M.M. Alam"; born 6 July 1935 – 18 March 2013) was a Pakistani fighter pilot, North American F-86 Sabre Flying ace and one-star general who served with the Pakistan Air Force. Squadron Leader Muhammad Mahmud Alam, Commander of No 11 Squadron, was already a notable leader and highly experienced pilot in 1965, when he was awarded the Sitara-e-Jurat ("The star of courage"), a Pakistani military decoration, and then awarded a bar to it for his actions during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. He was officially cited for downing five Indian aircraft in less than a minute.

Early life

Born July 6, 1935 to a well-educated family of Kolkata, British India, M.M. Alam completed his secondary education in 1951 from Government High School, Dacca, East Pakistan. He joined the PAF in 1952 and was granted commission on October 2, 1953. Alam's brothers are M. Shahid Alam, an economist and a professor at Northeastern University, and M. Sajjad Alam, a particle physicist at SUNY Albany. His family moved to West Pakistan in around 1971, after the secession of East Pakistan. Being the eldest among 11 siblings in his family, M.M. Alam never married as he had to share the financial responsibilities of his younger sisters and brothers. Several of his younger brothers excelled in various academic and professional careers, owing their success to MM Alam’s hard work.

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Mushaf Ali Mir

Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir (5 March 1947 – 20 February 2003) was an influential statesman and a four-star air chief marshal, who was the sixteenthchief of air staff of Pakistan Air Force (PAF), serving from 20 November 2000 until his accidental death on 20 February 2003.

A fighter pilot and air operations strategist, Mir commanded the strategic aerial combat missions during the civil war in Afghanistan, and also commanded PAF forces during the 2001 Indo-Pakistan standoff. On 20 November 2000, he was promoted to four-star rank and appointed Chief of Air Staff by his close friend and comrade, General Pervez Musharraf. However, his tenure was cut short in 2003 when a former PAF Fokker F-27 on which he was a passenger crashed during a routine flight near Kohat, Pakistan. He was succeeded by Air Chief Marshal Kaleem Saadat in 2003.

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Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas

He was born on 17 February 1951. He was commissioned as a pilot in the Pakistan Air Force in 1971. Pilot Officer Rashid 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 Rashid Minhas realised 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 became the first PAF officer to receive Nishan-e-Haider.

 MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE

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