Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) pays tribute to Lance Naik Muhammad Mehfooz Shaheed on his martyrdom anniversary on December 18th Friday (today).
“Nation venerates supreme sacrifice of Lance Naik Muhammad Mehfooz Shaheed, Nishan-e- Haider at Wagah Border in 1971. His courage and extremely daring actions in battlefield are a sublime precedent worth emulating by all defenders of motherland,” read the statement issued by ISPR.
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Lance Naik Muhammad Mehfooz Shaheed
Muhammad Mehfooz was born in Pind Malikan (now renamed Mahfuzabad in his honor) in Rawalpindi District, Punjab. He joined the Pakistan Army on 25 October 1962 as an infantry soldier.
During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, A company of the 15th Punjab Regiment was under command 43 Punjab Regiment which was deployed in the Wagah-Attari sector along the Indian border.
On 17 December 1971, during attack on enemy Pul Kanjri post, his company was pinned down by enemy fire and his machine-gun was destroyed by an Indian shell.
Even though Lance Naik Muhammad Mehfooz was wounded in his legs by shrapnel, he moved towards an enemy bunker from which fire had caused many Pakistani deaths. There he was strangling with one of the enemy soldiers when he killed by another with a bayonet.
Immediately after the war was over, Indian Army recognized his bravery and said that if he was in the Indian Army, they would award him with veer chakra. On 23 March 1972, Mehfooz was posthumously awarded the Nishan-e-Haider, the highest gallantry award of Pakistan.
