Muhammad
Sarwar (1910–27 July 1948) (Urdu: محمد
سرور) was in born Singhori village,
Tehsil Gujar Khan, District of Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan. Muhammad Sarwar
was a captain in the newly formed Pakistani Army. Commissioned: 1944, Punjab
Regiment. In 1947, he volunteered to take part in the battalion organised by
the Pakistani Army that entered Kashmir on the order of the then
Governor-General Muhammad Ali Jinnah with the object of besting and chasing
away the Indian Army which had invaded Kashmir after the Kashmiri people
voted unanimously in favor of joining Pakistan (Citation needed). His
regiment managed to outflank the unorganized Indian troops and forced them
to retreat out of the parts which are now known as Northern Areas in one of
the battles of the First Kashmir War. He was killed by machine gun fire when
advancing forward through a barbed wire barricade. He was awarded the
Nishan-E-Haider for his bravery and valour.
During the Kashmir Operations soon after the birth of Pakistan, as Company
Commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Punjab Regiment, Captain Sarwar filled
with the spirit of Jihad launched an attack causing heavy casualties against
a strongly 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 to cut their way through a barbed wire barrier, he died when
his chest was riddled by a burst of heavy machine gun fire.
There is a college named after him, Sarwar Shaheed College.
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