Sawar Hussain Shaheed’s 45th martyrdom day today

LAHORE (92 News) – The 44th martyrdom day of Sawar Muhammad Hussain Shaheed is being marked today (Saturday). Sarwar Hussain won Pakistan’s highest military award Nishan-e-Haider for his bravery and valor in 1971 war against India. He was the first foot soldier of Pakistan army to receive Nishan-e-Haider after his martyrdom. Sawar hailed from Gujjar Khan area of Rawalpindi. He joined Pakistan army as a driver on September 3, 1966 at a very young age of 17 years. Despite being a driver, Sawar Hussain Shaheed participated in 1971 war actively and supplied ammunition to army men crawling from trench to trench braving the shelling of guns, tanks and air patrols. He was hit by machine gun fire while fight on the front lines while preventing the enemy soldiers from lying down minefield to target Pakistani side.