Born:18 june 1949 in Dhok Pir Bakhsh.Enlisted as a driver on 3 September 1966. Although only a driver in the 20^th Lancers, when war broke out in 1971 Sawar Mohammad Hussain took an active part in every battle in which his unit was engaged unmindful of any danger, no matter how grave. When he spotted the enemy digging in along the minefield near the village of Harar Khurd in December 1971 on his own initiative he directed accurate fire at the enemy resulting in destruction of sixteen enemy tanks. But while directing fire from recoilless rifles, he was hit in the chest by a burst of machine-gun fire and died on 10 December 1971.

Born: 1914 in Hoshiarpur. Commissioned into the 16^th Punjab regiment, 1943. Early in August , 1958, Major Tufail, a company commander in East Pakistan Rifles, and his petrol encircled an Indian post in the Lakshmipur area. And though mortally wounded in the hand-to-hand encounter that followed, Major Tufail continued to lead his troops till the Indians were driven out, leaving four dead and three prisoners. He died the same day on 7 August 1958.

Born: 25 October 1955 in Pind Malikan, Rawalpindi district. Enlisted in the army on 25 October 1962. Serving in 'A' Company of Punjab Regiment when war broke out in 1971, he was employed on the Wahga-Attari sector in East Pakistan where his company was pinned down by unceasing frontal and crossfire from automatic weapons. Although his machine gun was destroyed by an enemy shell, he advanced towards an enemy bunker whose automatic fire had inflicted heavy casualties. Even though wounded in both legs by shell splinters, when he reached the bunker he stood up and pounced oin the enemy, but was hit. Although unarmed, he caught hold of one enemy and was slowly strangling him when another bayoneted him to death during the night on 17 December 1971.

Born: 28 April 1942 in Kunjah, Gujrat District. Comissioned in to the Frontier Force Regiment on 19 April 1964. Major Shabbir Sharif as commander of the 6FF Regiment, was ordered in 1971 to capture high ground near Sulemanki headworks defended by more than a company of the Assam Regiment supported by a squadron of tanks. In a wellnigh superhuman action, for the next three days and nights after crossing a minefield and massive obstacles and killing 43 soldiers and destroying four tanks, he and his men held two enemy battalions at bay. But after he took over an anti-tank gun from his gunner in an attack he was killed by a direct hit inthe afternoon of 6 December.

Born: 1928 in Hong Kong. Comissioned into the Punjab Regiment in 1950. On 6 September 1965, as company commander in the Burki area of the Lahore sector, Major Aziz chose to move with his forward platoon under incessant artillary and tank attacks for five days and nights in the defence of the strategic BRB canal. Throughout, undaunted by constant fire from enemy small arms, tanks and artillery, he organized the defence of the canal, directing his men to answer the fire until he was hit by an enemy tank shell which killed him on 10 September 1965.

Born: 1910, Village Sanghori,District Rawalpindi. Comissioned into the Punjab Regiment, 1944. During the Kashmir operations soonafter the birth of Pakistan, as company commander at 2^nd Battalion of the Punjab Regiment, Capt Sarwar launched an attack causing heavy casualties against a strong fortified enemy position in the Uri-sector under heavy machine-gun, grenade and mortar fire. But on 27 July 1948, as he moved forward with six of his men t o cut their way through a barbed wire barrier, he died when his chest was riddled by a burst of automatic fire.

Born:17 February 1951. Commissioned as a pilot in the Pakistan Air Force. Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas was Taxiing for take off on a routine training flight when an instructor Pilot fiorced his way into the rear cockpit, seized control of the aircraft and took-off. When Minhas realized that the absconed Pilot was heading towards India, he tried to regain control of the plane but was unable to do so. Knowing that it meaned certain death, he damaged the controls and forced the aircraft to crash thirty-two miles short of the border on 20 August 1971.

Born: 4 April 1938 in Dingha, Gujrat District. Commissioned in the Frontier Force Regiment on 13 October 1963. Major Mohammad Akram and a company of 4FF Regiment which he commanded in the forward area in Hilli District, in East Pakistan in 1971, came under incessant air, artillary and armour attacks. But for an entire fortnight, despite enemy superiority in both numbers and firepower, he and his men repulsed every attack, inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy. Major Akram died during this epic battle in 1971.