Waleed Ehsanul Karim

Waleed Ehsanul Karim

part in the Republic Day fly past at Rawalpindi on 23rd March 1964. He died when his recently repaired aircraft (which was hit by anti-aircraft guns at Rann of Kutch in the morning sortie) developed engine trouble and plunged into the Arabian sea about 10-15 miles off the south coast of Karachi

 in the night of 19 April 1965 when he was returning from a reconnaissance mission over Gujarat.

He had participated at the Rann of Kutch battle by dropping smoke bombs in daytime to screen the infantry attacks. Neither his body,

 nor the aircraft was recovered. But a part of the rudder was later recovered from the same location after two months.

At that time he was a fighter pilot of 17th Sqaudron (the Tigers) of the Pakistan Air Force. Air Marshal Azim Daudpota was his Squadron Leader at that time. 

Flight Lieutenant M. Matiur Rahman, Bir Sreshtho, Air Vice Marshal Momtaz Uddin Ahmed were his course mates in both Sargodha and Risalpur.