Sitara-e-Jurat

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Sitara-e-Jurat
PAK Sitara-i-Juraat ribbon.svg
Ribbon of the Sitara-e-Jurat
Awarded by Pakistan
Type Military Decoration
Eligibility Military only (Conferrable on all ranks)
Awarded for "...for gallant and distinguished service performed in combat..." [1]
Status Currently awarded
Post-nominals SJ
Statistics
Established 16 March 1957[2]
Precedence
Next (higher) (1) Nishan-i-Haider
(2) Hilal-i-Jurat
Next (lower) (4) Tamgha-i-Jurat

Sitara-e-Jurat (Star of Courage) is the third highest military award of Pakistan. It was established in 1957 after Pakistan became a Republic; however, it was instituted retrospectively back to 1947. It is awarded for gallantry or distinguished service in combat; and can be bestowed upon officers, junior commissioned officers and warrant officers and their equivalents in the Pakistan Army, Navy, Air Force, and various paramilitary forces under federal control such as the Frontier Corps, the Frontier Constabulary and the Pakistan Rangers.[2][3] It may be considered to be roughly equivalent to the Military Cross and the Silver Star.

Contents

[edit] List of recipients

The Sitara-e-Jurat

Pakistan Army

  • PA-136 Brigadier/Colonel Sher Muhammad Khan SJ (First Sitara.e.Jurat-Kashmir Operation 1948) as Sector Commander
  • PA - Captain Mujeeb Faqrullah Khan 25th FFR (Chamb-Jorian Sector 1971, for taking Picket 707 with the 1 Masud Battalion and defending it to death on December 4, 1971)
  • PA- Capt Sher Badshah Mahsud SJ (Kashmir Operation 1948)
  • Lt. Col. Ihsan Ali Khan SJ,FK (War of liberation of Gilgit & Baltistan)1948-49 as Area Commander Kargil-
  • PA4117 Major Malik Aftab Ahmed Khan S.J.(Corps of Engineer) 1965(For blowing "BATAPUR BRIDGE") Author of "Persian Pipeline" Year 1955.
  • PA 5954 Brig. Syed Hazur Hasnain, SJ & Bar (1965 & 1971)
  • PA3611 Brig. Jamal Mohammad S.J. S(IM). SBt. (18 Baloch Fazilka - Sulaimanki Sector 1971)
  • PA - Lt. Col. Abdur Rehman (Shaheed) SJ, (The First (SP) Med Regt Arty (FF)), Battle of Phillaurah, 1965
  • PA - Major Khadim Hussain Bangash (1 Armoured, 5 Brigade) destroyed three enemy tanks with an abandoned recoilless rifle at Khem

Kiran.

  • PA - Maj M.Zia Ud Din Uppal SJ (30 SP ARTY Reg-War of 1965)
  • PA - Lt. Col. Rasheed Kayani, SJ, (The First (SP) Med Regt Arty (FF))Battle of Phillaurah and Chawindah, 1965
  • PA - Lt. Col. Sahibzad Gul (Shaheed) SJ, 6 Lancers, Khem Karan, 1965-
  • PA - Lt. Col. Haq Nawaz Kayani (Shaheed) SJ & Bar, (Kashmir, 1965) 9th Bn Azad Kashmir Regular Forces , (Leepa Valley, 1972)-
  • PA - Brig Pervez hassan khan niazi, Sitare Jurat, Sitare Imtiaz, 1971
  • PA - Brig K Parvez Nasir, Sitare Jurat, 13 Lancers, 1971
  • PA - Capt. Israr Haider (Shaheed) SJ, Kargil 1999
  • PA - Capt. Kashif Khaleel,SJ 12 NLI, Kargil 1999
  • Sep. Bakhmal Jan (Shaheed) SJ, 12 NLI Kargil, 1999
  • PA - Lt. Col Ghulam Rasul Raja MC, SJ (16th Punjab - 1948 -> capture of territory in Indian kashmir)
  • PA - Maj. Abdul Jalil Orakzai Shaheed (3rd Punjab - Indo-Pakistani War of 1965)
  • PA - 7415 Colonel Sher ur Rehman SJ (29 Cavalry - 1971 War East Pakistan) (Called by the name of "the Desert Fox" at that time) (A P.O.W. at Agra jail in India for a year facing several death sentences at that time, but he came to Pakistan during the P.O.W. exchange treaty b/w the two countries and later served in the Army)
  • PA - 1986 Major General Amir Hamza Khan HJ , SJ (10-Punjab, Commander 105 Independent Brigade 1971 War)
  • PA Brigadier Mohammad Akhlaq Abbasi, SJ ( 4 FF-1971 War East Pakistan)
  • PA - Maj Abdul Ghani SJ (9 Heavy Regiment Artillery)
  • PA -  ? Maj M.Zia Ud Din Uppal SJ (30 SP ARTY Reg-War of 1965)
  • PA – 882. Maj Gen Muhammad Jamshed MC, SJ
  • PA - Brigadier Liaqat Asrar Bokhari
  • PA - Brigadier Muzaffar Khan Zahid (11th PAVO Cavalry FF) R/o Jatli Tehsil Gujarkhan District Rawalpindi
  • PA – 959. Brig Nisar Ahmed Khan SJ
  • PA – Brig Tanvir Ahmed Khan SJ, SI(M), FF, (Commanding Officer 5 NLI, Kargil)
  • PA - ? Maj Malik Munawar Khan Awan SJ (21 Azad Kashmir Regiment)
  • PA – 3682 Maj. Saiyed Naseem Haider Rizvi (Shaheed) SJ (14 Baloch)
  • PA – 4865. Capt Agha Abdul Rehman Ahmedzai Baloch SJ
  • PA – 5274. General Shamim Alam Khan NI(M), HI(M), SJ, SBt-(28 CAVALRY-CHAMB HUNTERS)
  • PA – 5505. Maj Saeed Tiwana SJ
  • PA – 5779. Maj Gen Hidayatullah Khan Niazi SJ
  • PA - ? . Lt. Gen. Shah Rafi Alam SJ, HI(M) SBt.
  • PA – 6487. Lt Gen Muhammad Tariq SJ
  • PA – 6726. Maj Raja Nadir Pervez SJ
  • PA – 6910. Maj Farouk Adam Khan SJ
  • PA – 7280. Lt Gen Muhammad Afzal Janjua HI(M), SJ, SBt
  • PA – 31999. Capt Umair Iftikhar Ahmed Shaheed, SJ (1st Punjab) (Kargil Front 1999)
  • PA – 12855. Brig Arshad Zaman SJ
  • PA Major later Brigadier Muhammad Aslam Janjua (Late), Indo-Pak War of 1965, R/o village Wagh, Tehsil Pind Dadan Khan, District Jhelum.
  • PA –  ? Lt Gen Masood Aslam SJ, HI
  • PA –  ? Lieutenant Mohammad Qais Bangash SJ (A.M.C)
  • PA –  ? Major Raza Shah SJ (Armored Corps)
  • PA –  ? Capt Sagheer Hussain SJ
  • PA - ? Major Saeed Ullah Jung SJ (39 Baluch)
  • PA -335139 Sepoy Maqbool Hussain
  • Captain Zahoor Afridi Shaheed , SJ (Baluch) 1965
  • Major Sabir Kamal Meyer Shaheed, SJ and Bar ( FF) 1971
  • Honorary Captain Raja Sultan Sikandar SJ (2nd Punjab) 1965
  • PJO - ? Risaldar Riaz Ul Hassn (Risala)
  • PA - ? Major Shabbir Sharif Shaheed, NH, SJ (6 FF) SJ (1965) NH (1971)
  • PA - 3263. Lt. Col. Mazhar-ul-Qayyum Shaheed, SJ
  • PA - 6988. Capt. Farooq Nawaz Janjua. SJ (1965)

[4] [5] ...this list is incomplete...

Pakistan/Bangladesh Army

  • PA - Capt. Abdur Rehman (Shaheed)Battle of Khem-Kharan, 1965

Pakistan Air Force [6][7]

Gallantry 1948

Posthumous 1965

  • Squadron Leader Taqi Raza Rajani HJ, SJ
  • Squadron Leader Saad Ahmed Khan SJ
  • Squadron Leader Syed Hassaar Abbasi SJ
  • Squadron Leader Asaad Fazal Khan SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Hammad Ahmed SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Bilal Zaidi SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Arslan Fareed SJ
  • Squadron Leader Abdul Rafay Bangali SJ
  • Squadron Leader Serfaraz Ahmad Rafiqui HJ, SJ

Gallantry 1965

  • Group Captain Eric G Hall SJ
  • Wing Commander M. G. Tawab SJ
  • Wing Commander Anwar Shamim SJ
  • Wing Commander M A Sikandar SJ
  • Wing Commander S Zahid Butt SJ
  • Wing Commander Nazir Latif SJ
  • Squadron Leader Syed Manzoor Ul Hassan SJ
  • Squadron Leader Mervyn Middlecoat SJ
  • Squadron Leader Azim Daudpota SJ
  • Squadron Leader Jamal A. Khan SJ
  • Squadron Leader Rais A Rafi SJ
  • Squadron Leader Syed Sajjad Haider SJ
  • Squadron Leader Muhammad Mahmood Alam SJ (and Bar)
  • Squadron Leader Shabbir H Syed SJ
  • Squadron Leader Najeeb A Khan SJ
  • Squadron Leader A Masood Khan SJ
  • Squadron Leader Mir Abdul Rashid SJ
  • Squadron Leader Shuaib Alam Khan SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Cecil Chaudhry SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Yousaf Ali Khan SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Amanullah Khan SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Amjad H Khan SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant S S A Hatmi SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Sikander M Khan SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant S Shamsuddin Khan SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Yousaf Hasan Alvi SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Arshad Sami Khan SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Dilawar Hussain SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant M Akbar SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Ghani Akbar SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Imtiaz A Bhatti SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant M Tariq Habib Khan SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant William D Harney SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant I A K Ghori SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Saadat M Akhtar Khan SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant S V A Abidi SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Rizwan Ahmed SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant S K H Wasti SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant S M H Hashmi SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Saiful Azam SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant N A Khan SJ
  • Flying Officer Ziauddin Hassan SJ

Posthumous 1971

  • Wing Commander Mervyn Middlecoat SJ (and Bar)
  • Wing Commander Syed Muhammad Ahmad SJ
  • Squadron Leader Khusro SJ
  • Squadron Leader Ishfaq Hameed Qureshi SJ
  • Squadron Leader Muhammad Aslam Choudhry SJ
  • Squadron Leader Peter Christy SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Fazal Elahi SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Samad Ali Changazi SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Syed Safi Mustafa SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Saeed Afzal Khan SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Zulfiqar Ahmad SJ
  • Lt. Col. Mazhar-ul-Qayyum Shaheed, SJ

Gallantry 1971

  • Wing Commander Syed Manzoor Ul Hassan SJ
  • Wing Commander Hakimullah SJ
  • Wing Commander M Afzal Choudhry SJ
  • Squadron Leader G A Khan SJ
  • Squadron Leader Farooq Umer SJ
  • Squadron Leader Abdul Basit SJ
  • Squadron Leader Javed Afzaal Ahmed SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Mir Alam Khan SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant A Wajid Saleem SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Israr Ahmad SJ
  • Flight Lieutenant Javed Ahmed SJ
  • Flying Officer Riffat Jamil SJ
  • Flying Officer M Shamsul Haq SJ
  • Flying Officer S Shamshad Ahmad SJ

...this list is incomplete...

[edit] See also

HV, Muhammad Rafique Pakistan Ranger DQ51296

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ PAF Combat website on military awards
  2. ^ a b Robertson, Megan. "Star of Courage (Sitara-i-Jur'at)". Medals.org. http://www.medals.org.uk/pakistan/pakistan018.htm. Retrieved 2009-06-06. 
  3. ^ "Honours and Awards". Pakistan Army. http://www.pakistanarmy.gov.pk/AWPReview/TextContent.aspx?pId=32&rnd=182. Retrieved 2009-06-06. 
  4. ^ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceuzuUhFSSk
  5. ^ http://www.ispr.gov.pk/front/main.asp?o=t-press_release&id=198&search=1
  6. ^ Citations of PAF Shaheeds, Defence Journal
  7. ^ Citation of PAF Heros, PakDef.info

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