page_title: Raja Muhammad Sarwar
section_title: Nishan-e-Haider
hierarchical_section_title: Raja Muhammad Sarwar / Biography / Nishan-e-Haider
caption_attribution_description: The monument at Sanghori (native village of Captain Raja Muhammad Sarwar Bhatti Shaheed Nishan e Haider) astride GT Road near Mandra.
context_page_description: Captain Raja Muhammad Sarwar Bhatti NH, BS, best known as Muhammad Sarwar, was a military officer in the Pakistan Army who was cited with the first Nishan-i-Haider for his gallant and actions of valor during the first war between India and Pakistan in 1947–48.
context_section_description: The body of Capt. Sarwar is buried at the Hill of Tilpatra which is near the Uri in Indian Kashmir where he was buried on 27 July 1948. It was on 23 March 1956 when the Government of Pakistan recognized his services as the Parliament of Pakistan authorized to posthumously award the Nishan-E-Haider (Eng. lit. Emblem of the Lion) for his meritorious services, which was awarded to him by the President of Pakistan. The Presidential Nishan-e-Haider citation on his grave is written in Urdu; and its reads with translation as:
  Citation
  Battle of Tilpatra in Uri: When Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah declared Jihad in Kashmir and ordered Pakistan Army to participate in it. Captain Sarwar were participating in a course in GHQ's School of Signals. His unit 2 Punjab Regiment entered Kashmir to face the enemy. As soon as the course ended he persisted to take permission to participate in Jihad of Kashmir, with his unit. Seeing his determination the commanding officer gave him permission. He was appointed as the signals officer. He offered himself to fight the enemy at Tilpatra hill. On 27 July 1948, he took his men with him and challenged the enemy. The enemy opened fire with machine guns, artillery and mortars. He kept on advancing bravely. His machine gunner got martyred. He took hold of his gun and sent 40 of enemy's soldiers to hell. When a second gunner arrived he handed over the machine gun to him. He, along with some soldiers, advanced from another side and destroyed a machine gun of the enemy. He got injured during it, but kept on advancing. There was barbed wire, which he cut himself and let the soldiers pass through it and led a final assault on the enemy. During this time, a burst from the automatic machine gun of the enemy pierced his noble chest. He fell down but encouraged his soldiers to fell upon the enemy while reciting the Kalima Tayyiba—therefore his tremendous courage led him to be posthumously presented with the Nishan-e-Haider.
  In 1967, the federal government later established the marble tomb in his memory to offer remembrance of his career highlights in the military and martyrdom to the civil society with additional funding was later secured by Imtiaz Warraich, the MP on the platform of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) to expand the facility in his memory in 1990— the marble tomb is located near his locality.
caption: The monument of Capt. Raja Muhammad Sarwar at his locality near the GT Road near Mandra
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