Sqn Ldr Shabbir Alam Siddiqui Shaheed

[nightrider_saulat]

Friend do you know how he got the cinema and the land.
sorry for derailing the thread.

and from this story he achieve the tittle of mr.10%

 

[Arsalan]

and from this story he achieve the tittle of mr.10%

no friend, this award goes to his son, Mr. Asif Ali Zardari


Sir. MuradK
however sir it is true that zardair belongs to a feudal family which have lots of land in sindh provience, i also doubt his father being a mason, but on other side, i donot dare doubt your statement aswell!

what to do,,

and at last, as always,

let us get back to topic,
regards!

 

[third eye]

Air Cdr Najib too deserves Kudos for being a friend in the true sense of the word.

It is always very difficult to meet the kin of a fallen comarade. One, in a strange way feels guilty for being around while others did not return.

 

[Spring Onion]

Friend do you know how he got the cinema and the land.
sorry for derailing the thread.

Sir kindly do let me know the details in PM sir because there is a senior person who was Hakim's friend and he is at mmy throat for questioning the wealth of hakim ali

 

[PakShaheen79]

Greatness all around.

I see only heroes in this story from both sides.
Squadron Leader Shabbir,Air Commodore ® Najib Khan (Shabbir’s squadron ‘buddy’ and close friend), Flight Lieutenant Manish Sangwan,Air Chief Marshal ® S. P. Tyagi and last but not least Shahnaz Haider.
Like said by someone above, a really moving story.

 

[Wingman]

I am not defending Zardari here but I dont think there is anything wrong with it. History is full of carpenters, blacksmiths, farmers and others from lower middle class making it all the way to the top.

Leaving other controversional things about him aside, being a son of a mason shouldnt be an embarrasment.

Please read Sir Murad's post, they live in flats....it means he had actually seen Hakim...we cannot deny the truth

2... History is full of carpenters, blacksmiths, farmers and others from lower middle class making it all the way to the top....no problem in that but the question is HOW!!!! by hard work or by deceiving????

 

[Arsalan]

Happy Defence Day to all of you,

May Pakistan Live long,
Inshallah!

http://www.defence.pk/forums/national-political-issues/33280-happy-defence-day.html#post471814

regards!

 

[Slides]

We used to live in Flats when Shabbir sahib was living infront of us, He was a very humble person, He always said I don't see you young guys in the mosque very sweet guy.
Something you guys don't know that Zardari's father was the one who worked on his house as a Mason.

I'm sorry but that can't be true. Zardari is from a Baloch land owning family in Sindh. His father was no mason.

 

[sadiqams]

A story worth turning into a true movie.

 

[Karnal]

Good Work.Thanks

 

[John Doe]

This story has been posted a couple of times in this very forum, once in 2008 and once in 2009. I feel that newcomers to this forum deserve to know about this story, in case they have missed it .



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0330 Hrs. Two young Squadron Leaders from No. 8 Squadron of the No. 31 Bomber Wing based at Pakistan Air Force Station Mauripur (now Base Masroor) at Karachi, sat strapped in the tandem cockpit of their Martin B-57B Bomber aircraft No. 33-941 performing final checks on takeoff, yet again, on a high risk deep-strike night mission into enemy territory. Their duty was to bomb India's Jamnagar Airfield 225 nautical miles (258 miles) South-East of Karachi.

In the front seat was the 31 year old pilot Sqn Ldr Mohammad Shabbir Alam Siddiqui, the jovial and dynamic officer who was quite popular among his colleagues for his spirited and compassionate nature. On the back seat was the 32 year old navigator Sqn Ldr Muhammad Aslam Qureshi, known as a thoroughly dedicated and professional officer.

Sqn Ldr Alam Siddiqui had first taken off at 1805 Hrs and was now ready to take off for the third time at 0335 Hrs. Flying 3 combat missions within 9 hours is widely accepted as no minor feat and is quite a record within PAF, at least during both the wars of 1965 and 1971, in any case as far as war-time bombing sorties were concerned. In the war, stretched beyond usually accepted practice, two operational missions in a night was considered the limit.

As per procedure the crew had climbed up for the dive bombing to about 5000ft or more AGL and dived to release the bombs at about 3000 feet or less AGL, first dropping flares to light up the target during the descent and owing to Sqn Ldr Alam Siddiqui’s zealous nature almost certainly going lower below the gathering clouds for precision. With the airfield below now lit up and visible they made the first bombing run and dropped 2x1000lbs bombs over the airfield which caused explosions. Although the flares had been a risk, they were used by pilots for accuracy. While they made the airfield below visible to the bomber they lit-up the attacker for AAA gunners below as well. Just when the lone B-57 ‘Zulu 6’ had suddenly showed up again diving through the clouds to deliver its fury over the enemy airfield, 8 Seahawk fighter aircraft of the No. 300 Indian Naval Air Squadron (INAS) were preparing for a massive strike against PAF’s Badin radar installation at dawn on 7 September. The B-57 meanwhile making a quick circuit swiftly climbed and came in for another dive for the second run to release the 2 remaining 1000lbs bombs in the last attack. By now the silence of the previously blacked-out airfield which had been on the receiving end of PAF’s wrath since 1900 Hrs (PST) opened up its furious retaliation with AAA fire. As ‘Zulu 6’ dived in for the second bombing run, it was inevitably caught in an Ack Ack (AAA) barrage.

While flying through the fierce fireworks, hurriedly to get rid of excess weight the crew jettisoned the B-57’s 2 rocket launcher pods. They landed very close to the INAS Seahawks, and have since been preserved by India as souvenirs of the PAF night-raid. Suddenly, the most dreaded moment of any aviator’s career struck. ‘Zulu 6’ suffered direct hits from Indian AAA below causing serious damage. The aircraft began to lose control. Already low, the now damaged bomber began losing altitude. Unable to pull through much farther, with the B-57 clocking somewhere between 360 and 400 knots (415 -460 mph) and going down at a shallow angle impact was now imminent. The B-57 No. 33-941 eventually crashed in open agricultural ground 10 miles East of the Jamnagar airfield, apparently martyring both the highly valuable, courageous and skilled officers on impact.

However, unusual absence of any prompt news about the bomber and its crew officially received from India following the loss initially caused helpless bewilderment. As a result the fate of this intrepid duo remained uncertain for days and eventually decades. IAF’s unexpected tardiness in claiming a ‘kill’ implied other reasons of the loss. Combined with the details on absence of Ack Ack or interceptors experienced on previous raids, weather and presence of low clouds, low flight profile and possible fatigue due to the pilot flying 3rd mission; ‘spatial disorientation’ struck as a plausible theory. These points were mentioned in the mission debrief and log book of Sqn Ldr Rais A Rafi the next morning which fostered all kinds of speculations about ‘Z6’ including the possibility of having crashed into the Arabian Sea en route.

In India however, the fate of this bomber and its crew was always more than certain. Ack Ack had indeed claimed B-57 No. 33-941 kill which was acknowledged by the Indian authorities shortly afterwards. Indian military had retrieved a diary attributed to the pilot. Images of its pages were immediately released to the media. Naturally utilizing propaganda value in the middle of war various Indian English and Hindi daily newspapers had published news of the shooting down along with images of the diary pages as well as the B-57 wreckage declaring that the crash had taken place very close to Jamnagar airfield.


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Page of diary belonging to Sqn Ldr Alam Siddiqui recovered from PAF B-57 crash site near Jamnagar Air Base

When a POW exchange took place between the two nations in January 1966, India handed over a broken fragment of an oxygen mask attributed to the pilot along with the wallet of Sqn Ldr Alam Siddiqui, in a worn out and grazed condition but still holding its contents including family photographs. The Government of Pakistan had then changed the status of the lost crew from MIA to KIA, but somehow the uncertainty regarding their fate perpetuated in the absence of an official verdict. In 2005 the acclaimed book ‘The India Pakistan Air War of 1965’ by P. V. S. Jagan Mohan and Samir Chopra revealed further anecdotes on this crash based on eye witness versions including that of Air Cdre K A Hariharan, an IAF pilot then stationed at Jamnagar who had witnessed the last bomber’s raid, the illumination by its flares and eventually its being hit by Ack Ack.


1965 photo of Squadron Leader Najeeb Ahmed Khan with a B-57 in the background. Now retired Air Commodore, Najeeb can be seen visiting crash site of his friend Squadron Leader Shabbir Alam Siddiqi near Jamnagar in CNN-IBN special 'Missing in Action' documentary. In 1965 war, Najeeb piloted B-57 in bombing attacks on various IAF bases including Ambala, Jodhpur, Halwara and Adamapur - Photo Source: Book titled: 'Story of PAF Heroes' - by Mohammad Afzal

In 2006, 40 years after the September 1965 war Air Cdre (Retd) Najeeb Ahmed Khan Sitara-e-Jurat, met Mrs. Shahnaz Alam in Canada. Having been very close to Sqn Ldr Alam Siddiqui Shaheed, he was touched by his dear friend’s wife’s sentiments for her martyred husband four decades later, owing to the uncertainty. He decided to request the IAF by writing to then CAS, Air Chief Marshal S. P. Tyagi, to extend some information and details about the fate of the crew from the critical mission of 6-7 September 1965. In a rare historic gesture and tribute to the profession of arms the CAS responded positively. The IAF carried out exclusive research on this B-57 loss and officially informed that as per historic records, eye witness accounts of locals, images and material attributed to the wreckage and the crew it was certain: B-57 No. 33-941 had indeed made it right over Jamnagar Airfield, dropped two bombs, was making a second circuit to drop the two remaining bombs, and was caught up in AAA, was inevitably hit, and minutes later crashed few miles across the airfield, martyring the crew. IAF further pin-pointed the crash site at an agricultural field 10 miles east of the airfield and facilitated a visit to the location. A documentary was produced on the trip by CNN-IBN showing the location and old pictures including one from a local daily displaying the wreckage with Indian Navy officials standing beside it.

Please watch these touching and moving videos!!!

Sqn Ldr Shabbir Alam Siddiqui Shaheed - part 1 - YouTube

Sqn Ldr Shabbir Alam Siddiqui Shaheed - part 2 - YouTube

 

[fd24]

Thanks for starting this thread again. Yes you were right. The videos were emotional. Wonderful to see how Indians and Pakistanis looked like one. Thanks again

 

[Norboo]

Different nations but brothers in arms!!

 

[S.M.R]

KARACHI:

When Squadron Leaders Shabbir Alam Siddiqui (pilot) and Aslam Qureshi (navigator) did not return from their third bombing mission on the night of September 6, 1965, details regarding their fateful mission remained obscure for decades.

Consequently, they were declared missing in action by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) and never decorated for their valiant service. Their wives, Shahnaz Alam and Parveen Qureshi, both new mothers in their early twenties at the time, lived with an anguishing lack of disclosure.

It took Shahnaz more than 40 years of undying love and relentless determination to uncover facts about her loving husband’s fate. She was finally able to draw attention of the Indian Air Force (IAF) in 2006 through help from Air Commodore (retired) Najeeb Khan, himself a decorated war veteran and a colleague of the lost officers.

In a historic gesture, then IAF Chief Shashi Tyagi responded compassionately and ordered exclusive research into the fate of this dauntless crew. He officially invited Shahnaz to India and informed her that the PAF B-57 bomber from Mauripur (Masroor) Base in Karachi had reached over its target Jamnagar Airfield shortly before dawn on September 7, 1965. After dropping two bombs it was in circuit to drop the remaining load when it was hit by anti-aircraft (AA) fire and crashed. The pilot and navigator were killed on impact and buried in nearby fields.

IAF revelations therefore cleared the various misconceptions regarding this fateful mission, which had accumulated over the decades. PVS Jagan Mohan, renowned Indian military historian and author of the highly-acclaimed book The India-Pakistan Air War of 1965, points out that, “The impression about this B-57 crashing into the sea en route was incorrect as the IAF had claimed shooting down the bomber in 1965. It seems due to the atmosphere of hostilities and distrust, the PAF may not have believed the IAF claim.”

Further research into Indian accounts of the war revealed that this crew had bombed the enemy airfield at a very critical time, when aircraft of the Indian Navy Air Squadron were preparing for a massive raid against PAF bases at dawn on September 7. Their daring mission annihilated the planned Indian assault.

Rear Admiral Satyindra Singh of the Indian Navy states in his book Blue Water – Indian Navy 1961-1965 that, “Had the eight aircraft at Jamnagar bombed the ‘seeing-eye’ of the PAF air defence establishment at Badin, the war would have been over much quicker…”

Five years after these crucial revelations from India, their families are hopeful that the President and PAF chief will at last honour these unsung national heroes.

“My family and I have never sought any financial reward that accompanies a decoration. All I have longed for nearly 50 years is the gallantry award acknowledging my husband’s valour and sacrifice alongside celebrated war heroes of 1965,” says Shahnaz.

There are numerous examples of delayed gallantry awards the world over. Squadron Leader AB Devayya of IAF, who was lost in aerial combat over Sargodha in 1965, was decorated with a posthumous Maha Vir Chakra during the 1980s when details of his last mission were revealed over two decades later. In May this year, US President Barack Obama awarded the Medal of Honour to families of two soldiers killed in 1951 during the Korean War.

Another example is of Sipahi Maqbool Hussain of Pakistan army who was taken as a prisoner of war by the Indian army in 1965 and tortured for decades. When released few years ago, he managed to reach his regiment where his amazing saga was revealed and he was awarded the Sitara-e-Jurat.

Parveen requests authorities to also try and bring the remains of these officers home, so they can be buried in their own soil. A cited example is that of Mati-ur-Rahman, the Bengali pilot who was killed while attempting to hijack Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas’ aircraft in 1971. His remains were excavated from a graveyard at Masroor Base and handed over in 2006. Rahman is a recipient of Bir Sreshtho, Bangladesh’s highest military award.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 10th, 2011.

 

[MastanKhan]

Sipahi Maqbool deserved the second highest award if not the Nishan a Haider----pak millitary heirarchy needs to change this awarding of the medals. Hilal A juraat I believe that is what it is----that is what M M Alam should have receieved and that is what Maqbool hussein deserved and many others-----.

These brave flyers must deserve the honors of the highest award and acknowledgement of their bravery.


Oh by the way-----AVIATOR is a term used for u s navy flyers-------.