Muhammad Sarwar

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Muhammad Sarwar
1910 - 27 July 1948
Captain Raja Muhammad Sarwar, Nishan-e-Haider
Place of birth	Gujar Khan, Punjab
Place of death	Kashmir
Allegiance	Pakistan Army
Years of service	1944 - 1948
Rank	Captain
Unit	Punjab Regiment
Battles/wars	First Kashmir War
Awards	Nishan-e-Haider

Muhammad Sarwar (Urdu: محمد سرور ) was born in 1910 Singhori village, Tehsil Gujar Khan, District of Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan. Muhammad Sarwar was an officer of the newly formed Pakistani Army. Commissioned: 1944, Punjab Regiment. In 1947, he was part of the raiding force organised by the Pakistani Army that sneaked into the state of Jammu and Kashmir with the object of capturing the state and gaining a strategic geographical advantage over India. He was killed in one of the battles of the First Kashmir War . He was awarded the Nishan-E-Haider for his 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.