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Featured PAF Pilots From East Pakistan

Interestingly nobody posted about this ace and a marytr:

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Not sure about PAF pilots but plently of Bengali Army officers and troops remained loyal and now reside in Pak.. mostly in Karachi and Islamabad/Rawalpindi.
I know 2 such officers.. one is running a company here in Karachi , retired as a major & the other retired as a brigadier and settled in Rawalpindi.
I know for a fact that it was very tough to stay back in Pakistan for all those who were loyal and wanted to stay back . A lot had to come back . Well I guess it was different time .
 
After all these years and everything that has happened, mutual respect is still there. A very well made video from Bangladesh in Bengali with English sub-titles on Swift Retort. Consistent with PAF’s version.



seriously Pakistan should make a "topgun" out of this.
 
After all these years and everything that has happened, mutual respect is still there. A very well made video from Bangladesh in Bengali with English sub-titles on Swift Retort. Consistent with PAF’s version.

wow IA ki le li ... lol
 
Nosey's boys I see, Again Matiur second from left.
Yes he was a good pilot, unfortunately the chain of events compelled him to take the last resort. He was awarded the Bir Sreshtho, Bangladesh's highest military gallantry award. BAF airbase at Jessore and other institutions are named after him.(Standing from the left)
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After all these years and everything that has happened, mutual respect is still there. A very well made video from Bangladesh in Bengali with English sub-titles on Swift Retort. Consistent with PAF’s version.

:pakistan: PAKISTAN ZINDABAD!
:cry: It`s such an emotional video!
 
Waleed Ehsanul Karim

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He was a fighter pilot in the Pakistan Air Force and one of the youngest F-86 Sabre jet pilots in the world.

Waleed Ehsanul Karim was born on 1 July 1944 to Fazlul Karim and Nazmunnisa Chowdhurani in Harbang, Chakaria, Cox's Bazar, British India (later East Pakistan, now Bangladesh). He completed his Senior Cambridge (GCE) from PAF Public School Sargodha (formerly PAF College Sargodha) in April 1961 (5th Entry, Sabre House) and joined the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in August 1961.

PAF career

He was commissioned in the PAF on 22 June 1963 in the 36th GD(P) Course with the serial number of Pak/4362 and being the Wing Under Officer, was a candidate for the Sword of Honour at this time, but did not end up receiving it. In a vehement debate at the PAF Academy in Risalpur, Waleed passionately pushed the agenda of the Language Movement of 1952 which compelled the Government of Pakistan to establish Bengali as an official language on par with Urdu and English (the official and mainstream languages in West Pakistan). He was later nominated and became known as the captain of the basketball team at the academy. Flight Lt. Matiur Rahman (later recipient of the Bir Sreshtho in the Bangladesh Liberation War) and Air Vice Marshal Momtaz Uddin Ahmed were his classmates in both Sargodha and Risalpur.

Waleed died when his aircraft (which was hit by anti-aircraft guns in the Rann of Kutch during a sortie by Indian forces early in the morning) had serious engine trouble and rapidly plunged into the Arabian Sea about 10–15 miles off the southern coast of Karachi on the night of 19 April 1965 as he was returning to Karachi from a reconnaissance mission over Gujarat, India. He had engaged the Indian Army in skirmishes throughout the Rann of Kutch by dropping smoke bombs during the daytime to screen infantry attacks. Neither his body nor his aircraft were recovered, but a part of the rudder from the Sabre was found about two months after and retrieved near the location where his aircraft crashed. He was a fighter pilot with the 17th Squadron (The Tigers) of the Pakistan Air Force when he died, and Air Marshal Azim Daudpota was his squadron leader at the time.
 

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