Major aziz Bhatti in war 1965

Indo-Pak War 1965

Major Raja Aziz Bhatti was posted in the Burki area of Lahore sector during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. As the company commander, Major Bhatti chose to move his platoon forward under constant firing from Indian tanks and artillery. For three or more days he went without rest. He resisted for five days and nights defending a Pakistani outpost on the strategic BRB canal.

                                

Shahadat

On 6 September 1965, as a Company Commander in the Burki area of the Lahore sector, Major Raja Aziz Bhatti chose to stay with his forward platoon 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 small arms, tanks and artillery, he was reorganising his company and directing the gunners to shell the enemy positions. To watch every move of the enemy, he had to place himself in an elevated position, where he was exposed to Indian fury. He led his men from the front under constant attack from Indian Artillery batteries. Although he tried to counter every Indian offensive in his area, he was hit by an enemy tank shell in the chest while watching the enemy's moves, and embraced martyrdom on 11 September 1965.^[3]

A day before his Shahadat (Martyrdom), the commanding officer had sent to him word that since he had been fighting untiringly for the last five days and nights, he should take a little rest and that another officer was being sent to replace him. Major Aziz, who was filled with a battle spirit and the will for martyrdom replied, "Do not recall me. I don't want to go back. I will shed the last drop of my blood in the defence of my dear homeland".^[3]

He is buried at his village in Ladian in the Gujrat district.

Each year, Major Bhatti is honoured in Pakistan on 6 September, also known as Defence Day of Pakistan. Major Raja Aziz Bhatti was awarded the Nishan-e-Haider, the nation's highest military award for gallantry for the exemplary courage he displayed till his Martyrdom.

                                        

Awards and decorations

Nishan-e-Haider (NH)

Major Aziz Bhatti Shaheed

                                     

Mojor  Aziz Bhatti

Major Raja Aziz Bhatti (Urdu: راجہ عزیز بھٹی‎; 1928 – 12 September 1965)^[1] was aStaff officer in the Pakistan Army who received Pakistan's highest award for valor. He was born in Hong Kong to aPunjabi Muslim Rajput family in 1928.^[2]He moved to Pakistan before it becameindependent in 1947, living in the village of Ladian, Kharian, Gujrat. There he enlisted with the newly formed Pakistani Army and was commissioned to thePunjab Regiment in 1950.^[3]

Early life and Army career

He was from a Punjabi Rajput family. His father's name was Abdullah Bhatti, and his mother's name was Bibi Amana. He had four brothers, Nazir, Bashir, Sardar and Rashid, and two sisters, Rashida and Tahira. His brother Bashir was killed during the Second World War by the Japanese while leaving Hong Kong. He had initially joined the Pakistan Air Force as Airman and later applied for commission in the Pakistan Army. He himself had six children, four sons named Major Zafar Javed Bhatti, Dr Zulfiquar Ahmad Bhatti, Rafique Ahmad Bhatti, and Iqbal Javed Bhatti, and two daughters named Riffat Bhatti and Zeenat Bhatti. Throughout his career, he was a brilliant officer and stood out among his peers. He did very well at the Academy and was awarded the Sword of Honour for being best in his batch of 300 officers, and the Norman Medal.He was also awarded nishan-e-haider for his bravery

Sipahi Maqbool Hussain

        

Sipahi Maqbool Hussain

Sipahi Maqbool Hussain was injured and taken prisoner by the Indian Army in the 1965 war and spent 40 years in Indian jails. He was released as a civilian prisoner in 2005. During his imprisonment, Hussain was said to be subjected to terrible human rights abuses. The drama pays tribute to Sepoy Maqbool Hussain as an icon of resilience and steadfastness.

Plot

As the story unfolds, Maqbool Hussain, bearing army No 335139, is shown being hit by enemy fire on the Line of Control at the start of the 1965 war.^[2] Subsequently, he is taken prisoner by the Indian army, who deny him Prisoner of War status.^[2] Trained in the traditions of the Pakistan Army, Maqbool Hussain faces all the suffering and refuses to share any information about his country with his captors — so much so that when they cut out his tongue, he writesPakistan Zindabad (long live Pakistan) in his own blood. Maqbool Hussain also becomes mentally ill during his four decades of incarceration

                       

Lieutenant Asim Salim Bajwa

Asim bajwa Military career

During his military career, Bajwa has served on multiple instructional and command-level posts, such as leading an anti-tank battalion, the 111th Infantry Brigade, and an infantry division.^[1] He was a brigade major at an infantry brigade and served as Chief of Staff at a strike Corps. He instructed courses at PMA Kakul and the Command and Staff College, Quetta, and was a deputy military secretary to the President of Pakistan.^[1] Bajwa assisted General Pervez Musharraf in compiling his book In the Line of Fire.^[2] In December 2010, he was promoted to the rank of a major-general. On 4 June 2012, Bajwa was appointed as the director-general of the ISPR.^[2][1]

On 22 September, 2015 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General.^[3]

The military leadership is now sustaining the officers as DG's of even higher rank. Asim Bajwa is the first "Lieutenant" General as a director general of ISPR.

                                             

Awards

Bajwa has been decorated with the Tamgha-i-Basalat and Hilal-i-Imtiaz for his military services

                                                   

Lieutienant Asim Saleem Bajwa

Asim Bajwa 

                                           

Lieutenant General Asim Saleem Bajwa(Urdu/Punjabi: عاصم سلیم باجوہ) is a Pakistani three-star general who is currently the director-general of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan Armed Forces.

Education and background

He commissioned in the 34th Punjab Regiment in 1984, at the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) in Kakul.^[1] He graduated from the Command and Staff College in Quetta, as well as the National Defence University (NDU) in Islamabad, followed by the Staff College, Camberley.^[1] He holds masters degrees in war studies and defence studies from the NDU and King's College London respectively.^[1]

A member of the Bajwa Muslim Jat clan, Asim Bajwa is married and has three children. His hobbies include reading and playing golf.

                            

General Raheel shareef

Raheel Shareef role in war on terror

As the Inspector General for Training and Evaluation, he enhanced the military colleges in the country and provided unconventional warfare training to the troops.^[11] He also deals with the evaluation of military doctrines and war strategies with a view to shaping future training programs. He changed the army's focus more towards carrying out counter-insurgency operations against Taliban militants.^[11] In a matter of 1.5 years he has turned around the security situation in the whole country which is now fully moving in the right and positive direction.

Sharif has played an important role in convincing other senior officers in the army that theTehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and assorted militants inside Pakistan are as much of a threat as India. However, Sharif stressed that all possible threats will be dealt with accordingly, be it internally or externally.

                                    

Chief of Army Staff

On 27 November 2013, Sharif was appointed as the 15th Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.^[7] According to sources, General Sharif is said to be uninterested in politics with very positive and balanced views. But he was elevated over two more senior generals.^[13] Lieutenant General Haroon Aslam, a senior general, resigned over Sharif's elevation.^[14] The other more-senior general, Rashad Mahmood was appointed as theChairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.^[15] The News reported that General Aslam may have been superseded because of his action in the 1999 coup.^[16]

In 2013, Sharif was conferred with Nishan-e-Imtiaz (military).^[17] Raheel Sharif will retire asChief of Army Staff (Pakistan) in November 2016.^[18] In September 2015, Pervez Musharraf called for extending the tenure General Sharif and warned against a change in the military leadership, saying that "he was happy to see growing popularity of General Sharif because he was doing a wonderful job which needed to be continued. I wish he carries on with all this he is doing, What he is doing right now, it needs continuity and if there is any change in the leadership amidst this all, all good work which has been done so far would go in waste. So I can only wish and suggest that he should stay there.”^[19]

According to The Economist, "Unlike his predecessors, General Sharif appears to see jihadists, principally in the form of Pakistan’s own Taliban, as the country’s greatest threat, and is credited to have initiated the successful joint operation

                                

                              

General Rahel Shareef

                                       

Raheel Sharif

General Raheel Sharif (Urdu: راحیل شریف; born 16 June 1956), NI(M), HI(M), is a four-starrank army general, currently serving as 15th Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army, since 2013..

Early life and family

General Raheel Sharif was born in Quetta. He belongs to a Rajput family^[3][4][5] with roots inPunjab (in the town of Kunjah, Gujrat).^[3] He has a prominent military background,^[6] He is son of (late) Major Rana Muhammad Sharif.^[6] His eldest brother Major Rana Shabbir Sharif, was declared as the martyr of Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 by Pakistan and received Pakistan's highest military award Nishan-e-Haider posthumously. He is the youngest sibling among three brothers and two sisters.^[7] His other brother, Captain Mumtaz Sharif also bravely served in Pakistan army and for his bravery he was awarded SITARA-E- BASALAT, but got an early retirement due to medical reasons.^[3] From his mother's side, he is nephew of Major Raja Aziz Bhatti, another Nishan-e-Haider recipient, who was declared as the martyr of Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 by Pakistan.^[8] He is married and has three children, two sons and a daughter.^[6]He is an avid reader and enjoys hunting and swimming.

Pakistan Army

Pakistan Army (Urdu: پاک فوج‎ Pak Fauj) is the land-based service branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces. It came into existence after the independence of Pakistan in 1947. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies(IISS) it had an active force of approximately 550,000 active personnel and 500,000 reserve personnel as of 2015.^[1] The Constitution of Pakistan contains a provision for conscription for times of possible need, but it has never been imposed.

Since its establishment in 1947, the Army (along with its inter–services: the Navyand the Air Force) has been involved in four wars with neighboring India and several border skirmishes with Afghanistan.^[2] Since 1947, it has also maintained a strong presence along with its inter-services in the Arab states during the past Arab-Israeli Wars, and aided the coalition in the first Gulf War. Recently, major joint-operations undertaken by the Army include Operation Zarb-e-Azb ^[3]Operation Toar-e-Tander (Black Thunderstorm) and Operation Rah-e-Nijat (Path to Salvation).