Naseerullah Babar dies

[fatman17]

Naseerullah Babar dies

By: Nader Buneri | Published: January 11, 2011


PESHAWAR - Veteran leader of Pakistan People’s Party and former Interior Minister Maj Gen (r) Naseerullah Khan Babar passed away due to protracted illness in Combined Military Hospital here on Monday. Maj Gen (r) Naseerullah Babar was a retired two star rank Major General in the Pakistan Army, and the former Interior Minister of Pakistan. His family is from the Babar tribe of Pakhtuns and hails from the village of Pirpai in district Nowshehra. Babar was a former Pakistan Army general, a former Inspector General Frontier Corps and a senior central leader of Pakistan People’s Party. He was born in 1928, in Ismail Khel near Akora Khattak, Nowshehra, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa.
He also remained Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from 1975-1977 under Zulfikar Ali Bhutto government and was Interior Minister in the second term of PPP government from 1993-1996. He was Special Assistant in Benazir Bhutto’s first government from 1988-1990.
His early education was from Presentation Convent School during 1935 to 1939. From 1939 to 1941 he attended Burn Hall then located at Baramula and Sarinagar. The school was subsequently shifted to Abbottabad after partition. He also attended Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College in Dheradun and joined the Pakistan Army in 1948. He was from the first PMA long course which graduated in 1950.
In his long career in the Army, Babar served in the Artillery Corps and Aviation. During the 1965 war with India, Babar single headedly captured an entire Indian company of soldiers (over 70 POWs) and was awarded Sitari-e-Jurat for this action. In the 1971 war, he commanded an artillery brigade in support of 23 Division and later commanded an infantry brigade until he was wounded and evacuated from the battlefield. He also had the distinction of being awarded SJ & Bar.
In 1972, he was appointed Inspector General Frontier Corps. He resigned from the Army in 1974 while commanding an infantry division and was appointed Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
He joined the Pakistan People’s Party in 1977 after the arrest of Bhutto. He famously threw away his Hilal-i-Jurat (with bar) and other army medals at the presiding officer of a military tribunal, when Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was hanged by the military regime of Gen Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.

i thought he was from Punjab Regt?

 

[Comet]

Rest In Peace

 

[Super Falcon]

INALLAH E WA IN ALLAH E RAJEOUN

 

[Blackpearl]

Naseerullah Babar dies

During the 1965 war with India, Babar single headedly captured an entire Indian company of soldiers (over 70 POWs) and was awarded Sitari-e-Jurat for this action.

What i have read about him about this episode that he was flying OH-13S (Bell 47) with another officer, near line of control. in the fog of battle, while flying, he crossed into enemy territory, and when fuel was low, landed in an Indian Army unit,thinking it a Pakistani Unit. When troops start moving towards the helicopter, then General Baber realized, seeing their uniform, that he had mistakenly landed in An Indian Army Unit ground. Still, displaying sheer courage and confidence, he gotout the helicopter, took out his sidearm and pointed towards the advancing bunch of soldiers and shouted at them that they all have been surrounded by Pakistan Army troops from all side, and they will be reaching that unit area shortly. He asked them to lay arms and surrender.
Indian soldiers were confused, but watching the courage and confidence in Babar's voice, they believed him and fell into his bluff. General Babar then started his helicopter, asked the group of Indian soldiers to start moving with hands above their hands towards Pakistani territory, while he himself flew behind them. soon, they reached Pakistani troops and everybody was surprised, when they found a group of puzzled Indian soldiers come running towards Pakistani positions with a small Pakistan Army Aviation helicopter flying at their backs.

I Salute General (R) Naseer Ullah Khan Baber,
May his soul rest in peace.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Inalilahe wa ina ilehey rajeoon.......God grant him high status in jannah and give peace and patience to his friends and family ameen.

 

[All-Green]

Inna Lillahe Wa Ina Illahe Rajeoon.
May he rest in peace and be granted Paradise.

Naseerullah Babar was a great man and one of the true heroes of our country.
For the benefit of all members i am posting a link to a great interview of the Late Gen Naseerullah Babar, it provides a great insight into the character of this legendary son of Pakistan and the Pakistan Army of bygone days.

Remembering Our Warriors Babar “the great”

 

[fatman17]

Inna Lillahe Wa Ina Illahe Rajeoon.
May he rest in peace and be granted Paradise.

Naseerullah Babar was a great man and one of the true heroes of our country.
For the benefit of all members i am posting a link to a great interview of the Late Gen Naseerullah Babar, it provides a great insight into the character of this legendary son of Pakistan and the Pakistan Army of bygone days.

Remembering Our Warriors Babar “the great”

the late general was a 'true warrior' but i am sure he had his likes and dislikes! like every human being!

 

[Durrak]

INALLAH E WA IN ALLAH E RAJEOUN

 

[Haseebullah]

A true hero and patriot.
My his soul rest in peace.

 

[VelocuR]

Former Interior Minister Naseerullah Babar passes away

 

[Huda]

INALLAH E WA IN ALLAH E RAJEOUN

 

[alibaz]

Inna Lillah he w Inna Alieh he Raajeoon

 

[BATMAN]

Inna lilahe wa Ina Elahi Rajeoon.

 

[DesiGuy]

RIP.......

 

[Irfan Baloch]

I remember Gen Nasir Ullah Baber with his piercing eyes and broad forehead. He left the army well before most of us were born but his army life during war and peace time is very aspiring.

I remember him for his role as interior minister in two different occasions . One during the Karachi operation which was cleansing Karachi off the warring gangs during the 90s and convincing the MQM thugs of that time that playing at the hands of the Indians was a loss making venture which meant loosing index finger or life at the hands of the security forces. His crack down eventually helped the MQM leadership to realise that playing an anarchist was not going to get it any where and only viable way for its future survival was to come in the political fold of Pakistan.

The other one was in Feb 1994 when a bunch of Afghan terrorists hijacked a school bus in Islamabad and were taken out by the SSG. Gen Nasir Ullah Baber was on the scene over looking the operation and was proudly talking to the news reporter after the successful conclusion that saw all terrorists killed and all hostages freed unharmed.

The current interior minister is not even half the man than what this great former gunner was.

Rest in peace general.