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| rdfs:comment | - Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas or Rashid Minhas Shaheed, NH, () (February 17, 1951 – August 20, 1971) was a Pilot Officer in the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) during the 1971 Pakistan-India War. Minhas, a newly commissioned officer at that time, is the only PAF officer to receive the highest valour award, the Nishan-e-Haider. He is also the youngest person and the shortest-serving officer to have received this award. He is remembered for his death in 1971 in a jet trainer crash while struggling to regain the controls from a defecting pilot: Matiur Rahman.
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| death place | - Thatta, Sindh province, West Pakistan
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| Caption | - Pilot officer Rashid Minhas, 1971.
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| Birth Place | - Karachi, Sindh province, West Pakistan
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| abstract | - Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas or Rashid Minhas Shaheed, NH, () (February 17, 1951 – August 20, 1971) was a Pilot Officer in the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) during the 1971 Pakistan-India War. Minhas, a newly commissioned officer at that time, is the only PAF officer to receive the highest valour award, the Nishan-e-Haider. He is also the youngest person and the shortest-serving officer to have received this award. He is remembered for his death in 1971 in a jet trainer crash while struggling to regain the controls from a defecting pilot: Matiur Rahman.
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