On September 6, 1965 after India attacked Pakistan with the largest ever number
of tanks, Major Bhatti as Company Commander in the Burki area of Lahore sector moved forward under incessant artillery attacks for five days and nights in the defence of the strategic BRB canal.Major Aziz Bhatti Shaheed directed his men to answer the fire until he was hit by an enemy tank shell which killed him on 12 September 1965. He was 37 years old.Raja Aziz Bhatti was rewarded with the prestigious Nishan-e-Haidar for his services to Pakistan.
Major Aziz Bhatti Shaheed
Directed his men to answer the fire until he was hit by an enemy tank shell which killed him on 12 September 1965
He was born in 1928 in Hong Kong. He was commissioned in Punjab Regiment, during 1950. On 6 September 1965, as a Company Commander in Burki area of Lahore sector, Major Raja Aziz Bhatti chose to stay with his forward platoon, facing armour division attack under incessant artillery shelling for five days and nights in the defence of the strategic BRB Canal. Throughout, undaunted by constant fire from enemy small arms, tanks and artillery shelling, he organized the defence of the canal, directing his men to respond until he was hit by a tank shell and embraced martyrdom on 10 September 1965.
