Raja Muhammad Sarwar

Shaheed
Raja Muhammad Sarwar Khan
NH
Born 1910
Gujar Khan, Rawalpindi District, British India
Died 27 July 1948(1948-07-27) (aged 38)
Uri, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Allegiance  British India
 Pakistan
Service/branch  British Indian Army
 Pakistan Army
Years of service 1929–1948
Rank Captain
Unit 2/1st Punjab Regiment
Battles/wars World War II
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947
Awards Nishan-e-Haider

Raja Muhammad Sarwar[1] (1910–27 July 1948) also Raja Muhammad Sarwar Khan[2][3] was a captain in the newly formed Pakistani Army. He was born to a Rajput family[2][3] in Singhori village, Tehsil Gujar Khan. In 1944 he was commissioned and assigned to the Punjab Regiment. In 1947, he volunteered to take part in the battalion organised by the Pakistani Army with the purpose of retaking Kashmir. His regiment managed to outflank the disorganised Indian troops and forced them to retreat out of the regions which are now known as the Northern Areas in one of the battles of the First Kashmir War. During the Kashmir Operations, as Company Commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Punjab Regiment, Captain Sarwar launched an attack causing heavy casualties against a strongly fortified enemy position located in the Uri Sector. His battalion was subject to under heavy machine gun, grenade, and mortar fire. On 27 July 1948, as he moved forward with six of his men to cut their way through a barbed wire barrier, he was killed in action when he was shot in the chest with heavy machine gun fire.

In recognition for his valour, Sarwar was posthumously awarded the Nishan-E-Haider, Pakistan's highest military decoration.[4][5] In addition Sarwar Shaheed College was named in his honour.

Awards and decorations

Nishan-e-Haider (NH)

See also

References

  1. ↑ Raja Muhammad Sarwar
  2. 1 2 "Aye rahe-haq ke shaheedo". Unique Pakistan. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Captain Raja Muhammad Sarwar Bhatti (Nishan e Haider)". Pakistan 360 degrees. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  4. ↑
  5. ↑ http://www.ouchh.com/Special/Nishan-e-Haider
  • "Capt Sarwar Shaheed, Pakistan's first ever Nishan-e-Haider recipient remembered". Pakistan Today. 27 July 2016.


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