MAJOR TUFAIL MOHAMMAD SHAHEED

He was born in 1914 in Hoshiarpur.  He was commissioned into the 16th Punjab Regiment in 1943.  In August 1958, Major Tufail Mohammad as a company commander in the East Pakistan Rifles, and his patrol encircled an Indian post in the Lakshmirpur area.  And though mortally wounded in the hand to hand encounter that followed Major Tufail Mohammad continued to lead his troops till the Indians were driven out, leaving four dead and three prisoners.  He embraced martyrdom the same day 7, August 1958.