Muhammad Akram

Major Muhammad Akram (; 4 April 1938 – 5 December 1971) into a Punjabi Awan family of Village Naka Kalan (District Jhelum). He was a military brat and his father, Malik S. Muhammad, was an enlisted personnel in the British Indian Army who later retired as a Havildar, an army n.c.o., in the Pakistan Army.

In 1953, he dropped out of the Military College Jhelum due to his father's deployment, and had to take the High School equivalency exam where he took examinations in geography and intermediate education.

During the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971, the 4th FF Regiment, which at that time was commanded by then Lt. Col. Muhammad Mumtaz Malik, was placed in the forward area of the Hilli Municipality (under Hakimpur Upazila, Dinajpur District), in what was then East Pakistan. He was killed in action in the battle on 5 December 1971 and was posthumously awarded the Nishan-e-Haider, Pakistan's highest military honour.

He was buried in the village of Boaldar, Thana/Upozila-Hakimpur (Banglahilly), District-Dinajpur. There is a monument, Major Muhammad Akram Shaheed Memorial, in the middle of Jhelum city.

Awards and decorations

Nishan-e-Haider (Emblem of the Lion)

1971 War

PosthumouslySitara-e-Harb 1965 War (War Star 1965)Sitara-e-Harb 1971 War (War Star 1971)

PosthumouslyTamgha-e-Jang 1965 War (War Medal 1965)Tamgha-e-Jang 1971 War (War Medal 1971)

PosthumouslyTamgha-e-Jamhuria (Republic Commemoration Medal)

1956