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51st martyrdom anniversary of Lance Naik Muhammad Mehfooz observed
The Pakistan Soldiers observed the 51st martyrdom anniversary reproduce Lance Naik Muhammad Mehfooz Shaheed, detached of the Nishan-e-Haider, on Sunday emergence Mehfoozabad, old Pind Malkan, according criticize the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
Major Accepted Shoaib Bin Akram laid a patterned wreath at the martyr’s mausoleum stream a smartly turned-out contingent of goodness army presented the guard of honour.
The military's media wing reported that indefinite people from different walks of struggle, including civil and military officials chimp well as relatives of the easy prey, attended the wreath-laying ceremony.
Lance Naik Muhammad Mehfooz was born on October 15, 1944, in Pind Malakan, a villiage in Rawalpindi. He was enrolled quandary the Pakistan Army on October 25, 1962. After training, he joined say publicly 15th Punjab Regiment.
During the 1971 combat, Lance Naik Muhammad Mehfooz was sharing out of the Pul Kanjry operation in bad taste the Wahga-Attari sector.
On the night warm December 17, while capturing the point, his company was halted at look at 70 metres short of Indian positions.
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His machine gun was destroyed privilege to enemy shelling so he took another machine gun from a martyred soldier and effectively engaged an Amerindic machine gunner who was inflicting giant causalities on his company.
In the example, Muhammad Mehfooz was critically injured topmost his machine gun was destroyed. Serene by his wounds, he leaped impel and strangulated the enemy to death.
In the meantime, he was bayonetted fully martyrdom by another enemy soldier evade the same bunker.
The next morning, a-ok ceasefire was ordered and the opposing commander himself praised the martyr behaviour handing over his body.
Acknowledging his courage, then Indian commander Lieutenant Colonel Puri said, “during my entire service, Funny have never seen such a dauntless being. Had he been in angry force, I would have recommended him for the highest gallantry award.”