page_title: Waleed Ehsanul Karim
section_title: PAF career
hierarchical_section_title: Waleed Ehsanul Karim / PAF career
caption_attribution_description: English: Waleed Ehsanul Karim in front of a Pakistan Air Force North American F-86F Sabre.
context_page_description: Flying Officer Waleed Ehsanul Karim was a fighter pilot in the Pakistan Air Force and one of the youngest F-86 Sabre jet pilots in the world.
context_section_description: He was commissioned in the PAF on 22 June 1963 in the 36th GD(P) Course with the service serial number of Pak-4362 and being  the Wing Under Officer, was a candidate for the Sword of Honour at this time, but did not end up receiving it. In a vehement debate at the PAF Academy in Risalpur, Waleed passionately pushed the agenda of the Language Movement of 1952 which compelled the Government of Pakistan to establish Bengali as an official language on par with Urdu and English (the official and mainstream languages in West Pakistan). He was later nominated and became known as the captain of the basketball team at the academy. Flight Lt. Matiur Rahman (later recipient of the Bir Sreshtho in the Bangladesh Liberation War) and Air Vice Marshal Momtaz Uddin Ahmed were his classmates in both Sargodha and Risalpur.
caption: Waleed in front of his F-86 Sabre.
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