Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas or Rashid Minhas Shaheed, NH, ( راشد منہاس شہید) (February 17, 1951 – August 20, 1971) was a Pilot Officer in the Pakistan Air Force (PAF). Minhas, a newly commissioned officer at that time, is the only PAF officer to receive the highest valour award, the Nishan-e-Haider. He is 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 instructor Matiur Rahman.
Posted on: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 05:09:52 +0000
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