c. 1965: Four CinCs review the position on the ground during the 1965 war
c. 1980s: Pathan Tribesmen during Afghan-USSR War
c. 1965: Pak Army Medical Staff looking after an Indian Prisoner of WAR
c. 1965: Legendary Pilot M. M. Alam standing with his plane showing his score during 1965 war he shoot down 9 Indian fighter and 2 small flags shows that he decapitate them
c. 1965: Pakistani Rangers at Muna Bao Check Post
c. 1965: Pakistani Flag fluttering at a Fort in Rajasthan captured during Indo-Pak War
c. 1965: A Volunteer Mujahid in Kashmir sector
c. 1971: Nurul Amin and Professor Ghulam Azam in a meeting - Dacca, East Pakistan
Nurul Amin decided to live in
#Pakistan after fall of Dhaka and died in Rawalpindi in 1974, where Professor Ghulam Azam recently given a 90-year prison sentence at the age of 90 in Bangladesh considering his support of unified Pakistan as war-crime in 1971.
c. 1950s: Rocket-Missile Man of
#Pakistan - Air Commodore Józef Marian Turowicz
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Turowicz was a prominent and noted Polish Pakistani military scientist and an aeronautical engineer. He is considered as one of the chief architects of the Pakistan Air Force and Pakistan's space program. Turowicz, an eminent rocket scientist and an aeronautical engineer, was the leading and central figure in Pakistan's drive to develop high-tech rocket and missile technology of its own.
He was one of thirty high ranking Polish pilots who served in Pakistan Air Force during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, and is considered one of the pioneers of Pakistan's space program, playing a central role in Pakistan's aviation and aerospace industry.
Turowicz made significant contributions to Pakistan's missile/rocket program as a chief aeronautical engineer and has recently been referred to as the "Rocket-Missile Man of Pakistan" by some of the prominent defense analysts for his work towards the development of ballistic missile and space rocket technology. In Pakistan, he is highly respected as a scientist and noted aeronautical engineer.
Zofia, his wife, taught Mathematics at the Karachi American School and also trained gliding to Air Cadets in Karachi and Rawalpindi. In 1961 the couple obtained Pakistani citizenship. During the 1965 war, Turowicz rose to prominence when he defended Lahore as a pilot.
After his retirement from Air force in 1967, he joined SUPARCO where he worked till 1970. He was instrumental in launching first Pakistani Satellite and achieving breakthroughs in Pakistan’s rocket and missile programs. Turowicz was the administrator of Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) from 1967 to 1970, and towards the end of his career, he was appointed to the post of Air Marshal of the Pakistan Air Force.
Turowicz died in Karachi aged 72 in 1980.
