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Sawar Muhammad Hussain (
Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' Pakistan Army and was the first to be awarded the
Nishan-e-Haider Nishan-e-Haider (NH; ), is the highest military gallantry award of Pakistan. The Nishan-e-Haider is awarded posthumously and only to members of the Pakistan Armed Forces. It recognises the highest acts of extraordinary bravery in the face of ...
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Early life and career

Sawar Hussain was born in Punjabi
Arain Arain (also known as Raeen) are a large Punjabi agricultural tribe with strong political identity and organisation, found mainly in the Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh with a small population in parts of Indian Punjab, Uttar Pradesh ...
Family on 18 January 1949 in Dhok Nishan e Haider (Jatli), Pakistan. He joined the 20 Lancers of the Armoured Corps in September 1966 at the age of 17 years. After Sawar Hussain's death his village Dhok Pir Bakhsh was renamed Dhok Muhammad Hussain to commemorate his sacrifice.


Death

Sawar Hussain was a driver from the armored Corp but he would take part in every battle his unit got engaged in during the
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 was a military confrontation between India and Pakistan that occurred during the Bangladesh Liberation War in East Pakistan from 3 December 1971 until the Pakistani capitulation in Dhaka on 16 Decem ...
. On 5 December 1971, in the Zafarwal-Shakargarh area, he delivered ammunition from trench to trench under heavy enemy fire. On 10 December 1971, he took part in a dangerous mission and went out for reconnaissance and to fight enemy patrols. During reconnaissance, he spotted an enemy tank and directed a recoil-less rifle crew towards the tank and then later was responsible for the destruction of 16 enemy tanks. He was hit in the chest by a burst of machine-gun fire while exposing himself as he was directing fire from recoilless rifles, and was killed. After his death his father proudly said "My son received bullets on his chest like a lion"


Buried

Muhammad Hussain was buried on/near Jatli-Devi road.


Awards and decorations


References


External links

* https://www.ispr.gov.pk/sowar-hussain-shaheed.php 1949 births 1971 deaths Recipients of Nishan-e-Haider Pakistan Army personnel People of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Pakistani military personnel killed in action People from Gujar Khan Punjabi people {{Pakistan-mil-bio-stub