Remembering Those Who Left Us Midway (Reference Page)

 

Some 249 of us embarked upon a journey together on 12th May 1975 to one day wear the coveted uniform of Pakistan Army as commissioned officers. We had wonderful two years at the Pakistan Military Academy, sharing our joys and hardships together. We lost some very dear friends who left the Academy for many fitness and other reasons, while a few stayed back to be passed out with the next course while we moved on.

آگاہ اپنی موت سے کویئ بشر نہیں۔ سامان سو برس کا ہے پل کی خبر نہیں

Life has been though very beautiful and enlightening for young lads of late teens and early 20s and later in our lives, but the angel of death keeps hovering over and taking those along who had run out of their time in the world. Arshad Aziz and Iftikhar Hussain were the first two of us we had left behind in PMA to succumb to a tragic bus accident near Nathia Gali on 7th July 1977 while we were attending our basic infantry course at Quetta.

Of the commissioned officers, Major Safdar Jahanzeb (FF/Aviation) was the first to bid us farewell in an air crash near Jhelum. He was followed by Captain Muhammad Salim Bari who was severely injured in a car accident in Saudi Arabia. He was admitted for a year in Saudia Arabia and was then repatriated to Pakistan where his unit (27C) looked after him till his sad heavenly departure. I had initially planned to include each of our dear brothers, now no more, in the drop down menu. But as the number started to swell, it became difficult to track individuals from the ever increasing long list. Secondly, some found it difficult to use the drop down menus easily. Therefore this reference page is being added to the Course Blog listing down each of the departed brother in the order of their date of death. You may bookmark this page and can just click on the name of the desired brother to see how we still remember them:

1.   Arshad Aziz (7 July 1977)
2.   Iftikhar Hussain (7 July 1977)
3.  Safdar Jahanzeb (2 September 1992)
4.   Muhammad Salim Bari (15 January 1995)
5.   Saleem Akhtar Soomro (1 August 1998)
6.  Syed Agha Hussain (17 May 2000)
7.   Ishraque Ahmed Mubashir (6 April 2006)
8.   Zahid Rasool Khan (3 October 2006)
9.   Javed Sultan Khan (6 February 2008)
10.   Ijaz Ahmed (19 July 2009)
11.   Muhammad Mumtaz Hussain (24 May 2009)
12.   Ghulam Mustafa Maan (5 December 2010)
13.   Syed Sibtain Raza (14 September 2011)
14.  Asif Amin (2012)
15.   Shahid Aslam (25 January 2012)
16.   Abdus Samad Babar (22 February 2013)
17.   Shafiq Anwar (26 February 2013)
18.   Shams ul Haq (24 November 2013)
19.   Rizwan ur Rashid Chaudhary (22 February 2014)
20.   Muhammad Javed Iqbal (1 December 2015)
21.   Waheed Ahmed (24 February 2018)
22.   Muhammad Tariq Qureshi (18 June 2018)
23.   Zaffar Iqbal Durrani (6 April 2020)
24.   Gulzar Hussain (25 June 2020)
25. Khalid Ali Zai (9 February 1956 - 15 December 2020)
26. Muhammad Abdul Qadir Khan Shahid (29 January 2021)
27. Syed Khalid Mahmood (6 May 2021)
28. Arshad Javed Khokhar (31 July 2021)
29. Munir Ahmed Butt (12 August 2022)
30. Shahid Maqbool (11 June 1955 - 2 June 2023)
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    Muhammad Fida Hussain (5th February 2024)

In addition to the above, herein under are some who had joined us in the Academy but either left for own reasons or withdrawn, but later took their Heavenly flights:

1.   Khurshid Ahmed
2.   Dr  Shaikh Aamer Mansoor

May Allah bless them all and rest their souls in the highest place in Jannat ul Firdous. Aameen