The Great War Hero

Major Raja Abdul Aziz Bhatti

         

                    Among the Pakistani Heroes of the 1965 War, who fought on the Lahore Front there was one Major Raja Abdul Aziz Bhatti.
   
                         He fought against the enemy for six days and night without rest, and laid dows his life in the defence of his country. For this act of valour, he was awarded the Nishan-e-Haider, the highest military award of Pakistan.

                                                          Aziz Bhatti was born in 1928 in Hong Kong, where his father, Muhammad Abdullah Khan Bhatti, was a teacher. He thus received his early education in Hong Kong. In 1945, he came with his father to his home village LAdian in Gujrat District.

                                                         He first joined the Air Force, and in 1948, he bacame a cadet of Pakistan Military Academy at Kakul. He did very well at the Academy and was awarded by the Sword Of Honor, and the Norman Medal. He joined, the 6th Punjab Regiment as a commissioned officer,where he proved to be a very good military officer.
                                                                                                               
                                                                                               On the morning of 6th September, 1965, he received orders to proceed to the frontatonce. The Indians were fully equipped with guns and tanks. Major Aziz Bhatti was fired with the true patriotic spirit of a disciplined soldier. With his small company he not only stopped the Indian advancebut also pushed them back.


                On 11th September, he was recognizing his company and gunners to shell he enemy postions.In order to watch every move of the enemy, he had to place himself inan elevated position, wherehe was exposed to enemy fire.

                                     He performed his duty bravely. His soldiers asked him to come down but refused. This brave son of Pakistan wanted to save not himself but his country. A shell from an enemy tank struck him on his right shoulder and our brave hero fell.
                                           
                                                        A day before his martrydom, the commanding officer had sent him word that since he had been fighting untiringly for thelast six day, he should take a little rest and that another officer was being sent to replace him, who was filled the spirit of Jehad replied,

"Do not recall me, I don't want to go back. I will shed the last drop of my blood in the defence of their homeland".

       These words will ever inspire the youth of Pakistan with confidence and courage.