Rashid Minhas Shaheed: The Young Pilot Who Chose Duty Over Life

By: Izmi Herlani Some acts of courage are measured in battles won, while others are remembered for a single, defining decision. For Pakistan Air Force pilot officer Rashid Minhas Shaheed, that moment came on August 20, 1971, when the young aviator confronted an attempted defection inside the cockpit of a T-33 jet trainer and refused [...]