Rashid Minhas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Pakistani pilot officer
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Place of Birth: Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
About Rashid Minhas
- Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas(Urdu: ???? ??????b.
- 17 February 1951 – 20 August 1971) NH, was a military officer in the Pakistan Air Force (PAF).
- Minhas was the only PAF officer to receive the highest valour award, the Nishan-e-Haider.
- He was also the youngest person and the shortest-serving officer to have received this award.
- He is remembered for his death in 1971 in a jet trainer crash while struggling to regain the controls from a defecting pilot: Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman. In spite of having a short military career in the Pakistan Air Force, he has the unique distinction of being the youngest and yet the only air force personnel to be cited with the highest gallant award for his combat services.
- During the routine training mission in August 1971, P/Off.
- Minhas attempted to gain control of his jet trainer when his commanding officer Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman was trying to defect to India, and deliberately commandeer his plane that crashed near the Thatta District, Sindh in Pakistan.
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