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Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas or Rashid Minhas Shaheed, NH, () (February 17, 1951 – August 20, 1971) was a Pilot Officer in the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) during the 1971 Pakistan-India War. 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: Matiur Rahman.

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  • Rashid Minhas
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  • Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas or Rashid Minhas Shaheed, NH, () (February 17, 1951 – August 20, 1971) was a Pilot Officer in the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) during the 1971 Pakistan-India War. 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: Matiur Rahman.
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  • 1971(xsd:integer)
Birth Date
  • 1951-02-17(xsd:date)
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  • Thatta, Sindh province, West Pakistan
Name
  • Rashid Minhas
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  • Pilot officer Rashid Minhas, 1971.
Birth Place
  • Karachi, Sindh province, West Pakistan
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  • 1971-08-20(xsd:date)
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  • 9(xsd:integer)
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  • PAF No-5602
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  • Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas or Rashid Minhas Shaheed, NH, () (February 17, 1951 – August 20, 1971) was a Pilot Officer in the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) during the 1971 Pakistan-India War. 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: Matiur Rahman.
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