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Sitara-e-Basalat
Sitara-e-Basalat () is a non-operational gallantry (courageous behaviour, especially in battle) award of Pakistan Armed Forces given to individuals for distinguished acts of gallantry, valor or courage while performing their duty It is given by the President of Pakistan on the recommendation of a service chief. Notable recipients * FS Hussain * Abdul Razzaq Anjum * Sawar Khan * Imtiaz Bhatti * Abdur Rahim Khan * Bilal Omer Khan * Rizwan Ullah Khan * Asif Nawaz Janjua * Sanaullah Khan Niazi * Abdul Waheed Kakar * Akhtar Abdur Rahman * Rahimuddin Khan * Hamid Gul * Mushaf Ali Mir * Mansurul Haq * Aziz Khan (general) * Fasih Bokhari * Zahirul Islam Abbasi * Ahmad Tasnim * Muhammad Ghulam Tawab * Javed Nasir * Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed * Talat Masood * Abbas Khattak * Khalid Mahmud Arif * Fazle Haq * Arif Bangash * Farooq Feroze Khan * Cecil Chaudhry * Imran Ullah Khan * Shamim Alam Khan * Abdul Aziz Mirza * Iqbal Khan (general) * PQ Mehdi * Rao Qamar Suleman * Hakimull ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fasih Bokhari
Fasih Bokhari (; 8 March 1942 – 24 November 2020) was a Pakistani admiral who served as the Chief of Naval Staff from 1997 to 1999. He was a well-known pacifist and a prominent political figure as the Chief of Naval Staff from 1997 until his voluntary resignation in 1999, which stemmed from his staunch opposition to the then-Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's instigation of the Kargil War with India, a conflict that Bokhari reportedly saw as an act of inappropriate and uncoordinated aggression from Pakistan and one that subsequently led him into a bitter dispute with Musharraf. Bokhari also served as the chairman of the National Accountability Bureau, a Pakistani anti-corruption agency. In 1999, Bokhari publicly disagreed and revolted against the decision of then-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to extend Pervez Musharraf's tenure as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee preceding the latter's supersession as the Chief of Army Staff. He is notable for h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imtiaz Bhatti
Imtiaz Bhatti (18 April 1933 – 2 July 2024) was a Pakistani cyclist and Air Force pilot and officer. Bhatti was the Pakistan cycling champion during his student days at Punjab Agriculture College, Lyallpur (now University of Agriculture, Faisalabad) in late 1940s and early 1950s. He set national cycling records and represented Pakistan in the individual and team road race events at the 1952 Summer Olympics where he was placed 1st among the Asian cyclists and 25th in the world in the 1000 m time trial. Bhatti a veteran of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 flew 34 combat missions, the maximum from Pakistan during the war and is credited with confirmed downing of two Indian planes and damaging a third, in addition to participating in raids that destroyed the Amritsar radar and various other air defence and ground support missions. Career Service with the Air Force After completing his postgraduate studies at Punjab Agriculture College, he joined the Pakistan Air Force in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbas Khattak
Mohammad Abbas Khattak ( ; born: 16 July 1943) is a four-star rank air force general in the Pakistan Air Force who served as the Chief of Air Staff (CAS) from 8 November 1994 until 7 November 1997. Biography Abbas Khattak was born in Peshawar, NWFP on 16 July 1943. He was educated at the Cadet College Hasan Abdal, and joined the Pakistan Air Force in 1960, from which he was directed to attend the famed Pakistan Air Force Academy in Risalpur. He passed out with the class of 35th GD( P), and gained commission on 20 January 1963 in No. 19 Squadron ''Sherdils''. P/Off. Khattak was trained to fly the F-86 Sabre and took participation in the various combat missions during the second war with India in 1965. During this time, F/Off. was among the eight fighter pilots who were selected to take part in famous aerial raid on Pathankot Air Force Station in India, a squadron commanded by then-Squadron Leader Sajad Haider. In 1970–71, Sq-Ldr. Khattak was posted with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bilal Omer Khan
Bilal Omer Khan (Pashto, Urdu:; 3 February 1954 – 4 December 2009) known affectionately as ''Billy'' was a two-star rank general in the Pakistan Army who died in the December 2009 Rawalpindi attack along with 39 others. He was posthumously awarded the Sitara-e-Basalat on Pakistan Day 2010. His cousin is the former Prime Minister Imran Khan. He held the positions of Director General Armoured Corps (Pakistan), Director General Plans and Operations at JS HQ (Pakistan), Commander 11th Infantry Division (PAK), Commander 10th Infantry Division, and Commander 111th Infantry Brigade. On 23 August 2005, as the GOC 10 Division, Bilal was the chief guest at the Pakistan Cricket Board and Pepsi National School Cricket Tournament, where Ibrahim Ali Bhai School Karachi competed against Government High School Nanakpura Peshawar. Early life and family Bilal Omar Khan was born on 3 February 1954 to a respected Burki Pashtun family. His father Omer Khan, was a retired Colonel in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed
Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed (Urdu: تنویر محمود احمد;) is a retired air chief of the Pakistan Air Force who was the Chief of the Air Staff from 2006 to 2009. He was succeeded by Rao Qamar Suleman on 18 March 2009."Rao Qamar Suleman appointed new air chief" ''The News'', 8 March 2009 Initial training and education Tanvir Ahmed got his initial education from Central Model High school in , and subsequently, he did his F Sc from PAF Public School Sargodha where he belonged to 15th entry (767 – Fury House). Thereafter, he joined[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Ghulam Tawab
Air Vice Marshal Muhammad Ghulam Tawab (1 July 1930 – 23 February 1999) was the second chief of the air staff of Bangladesh Air Force who also served as deputy chief martial law administrator of Bangladesh with General Ziaur Rahman and Admiral M. H. Khan from 1975 to 1976. Early life Tawab was born in a village near Sylhet, of Bengal Province, British Indian Empire, on 1 July 1930. He was married to Henrietta, a German national, and has two sons and a daughter. Career After graduating college, Tawab joined the Pakistan Air Force in 1951 and was commissioned with the 9th GD(P) course as a pilot officer in the Pakistan Air Force. He graduated from PAF College Risalpur on September 15, 1951. During 1965 War, he had led the Pathankot airstrike and was awarded Sitara-e-Jurat. After Sheikh Mujib's assassination in August 1975, Tawab was immediately recalled from West Germany to active duty by then military chief, Major General Ziaur Rahman upon then Wing Commander M. Hamidu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akhtar Abdur Rahman
Akhtar Abdur Rahman (11 June 192417 August 1988) was a Pakistan Army general who served as the 5th Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee from 1987 until his death in 1988. He previously served as the 12th Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence from 1979 to 1987. During both Indo Pak wars of 1965 and 1971, he oversaw action with his own unit 24 Medium Regiment Artillery (Zarb ul Awwal) in Burki and Chambb sectors respectively. As the DG ISI, General Akhtar collaborated with the Central Intelligence Agency and masterminded the resistance network of the Afghan Mujahideen against the Soviet Union, eventually managing to force the Soviets out of Afghanistan. Due to his close friendship with President of Pakistan General Zia-ul-Haq, General Akhtar was widely considered to be the second most powerful man in the country during General Zia's eleven-year military dictatorship. He died in a plane crash which also killed General Zia and the US Ambassador to Pakistan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talat Masood
Talat Masood (Urdu: طلعت مسعُود) is a retired three-star rank army general, a political commentator, and a mechanical engineer. His career in the military spent in the Pakistan Army Corps of EME as an engineering officer and also served as the Federal Secretary at the Ministry of Defence Production of Government of Pakistan. He is noted for his analysis on the global national security, economic stability, and often consults on politics on the national and international media networks. Biography Talat Masood was born to a noble and highly educated Urdu speaking family of Hyderabad Deccan. He joined the Pakistan Military Academy, and was educated at the Military College of Engineering where he graduated with a B.S. in mechanical engineering. In 1951, he gained commission in the Corps of EME, where his career in the army is mostly spent. In 1951–54, 2nd-Lt. Masood was one of the few army officers who were sent to the United Kingdom to attend the Loughborou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javed Nasir
Javed Nasir (; 22 December 1936 – 16 October 2024) was a Pakistani military officer who served as the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), appointed on 14 March 1992 until 13 May 1993. Known for being member of Tablighi Jamaat, Nasir gained national prominence as his role of bringing the unscattered mass of Afghan Mujahideen to agree to the power-sharing formula to form Afghan administration under President Mojaddedi in Afghanistan in 1992–93. Later, he played an influential and decisive role in the Bosnian war when he oversaw the covert military intelligence programme to support the Bosnian Army against the Serbs, while airlifting the thousands of Bosnian refugees in Pakistan. Early life and education Javed Nasir was born in Lahore, Punjab in British India on 22 December 1936, and was Punjabi Kashmiri. His father was a school headmaster. After his intermediate from Government College, Lahore, where he was part of the college cricket team, Nas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmad Tasnim
Ahmad Tasnim (; born 1935) is a retired three-star rank admiral of the Pakistan Navy who is known for his command of ''Hangor'', a submarine that sank INS Khukri on 8 December 1971 during Indo-Pakistani war of 1971, off the coast of Diu, Gujarat. The sinking of INS Khukri was the first submarine kill since World War II, and the only one until a Royal Navy ''Conqueror'' sank an Argentinian cruiser ( ''General Belgrano'') during the Falklands War of the 1980s. In the 1990s, he was appointed chairman of the Karachi Port Trust and the Pakistan National Shipping Corporation while serving in the Navy until he retired in 1994. Biography Early life and career in the Navy Tasnim was born to a Punjabi Muslim Arain family in the village of Mianwal, Jullunder, Punjab in British India, in 1935. In an interview, he stated that his ancestors "most likely came from Iran" and "took up agriculture as their livelihood" after settling in the "area". His father, Mohammad Yakob, was a ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aziz Khan (general)
Muhammad Aziz Khan ( ; 1 January 1947), better known as Aziz Khan, is a retired Pakistani four-star rank army general who served as the 11th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, appointed in October 2001 until his retirement in 2005. Before surprisingly superseding several military officers for the appointment as the Chairman joint chiefs in 2001, Gen. Aziz was the leading general who commanded the Northern Command against the Indian Army in the 1999 Kargil War. In 1999, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had tried to stop a commercial flight from landing with Army Chief Pervez Musharraf onboard so Sharif could appoint a new Army Chief. As a result, Aziz was one of the four army generals who helped to initiate the military turnover, after the plane landed, against the civilian government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Biography Muhammad Aziz Khan was born in Pallandri, Sudhanoti, in British India now Azad Kashmir, Pakistan) on 1 January 1947 to a Sudhan Pashtun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamid Gul
Hamid Gul (20 November 1936 – 15 August 2015) was a Pakistani military officer and defence analyst. A three-star general, Gul was notable for serving as the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan's premier intelligence agency, between 1987 and 1989. During his tenure, Gul played an instrumental role in directing ISI support to Afghan resistance groups against Soviet forces in return for funds and weapons from the US, during the Soviet–Afghan War, in co-operation with the CIA. In addition, Gul was widely credited for expanding covert support to Kashmiri freedom fighters. against neighbouring rival India in the disputed Kashmir region from 1989, Gul earned a reputation as a "Godfather" of Pakistani geostrategic policies. For his role against India, he has been considered by A. S. Dulat, former director of RAW, as "the most dangerous and infamous ISI chief in Indian eyes." In 1988, Gul, with the support of General's Aslam Beg and Asad Dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
