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Major Raja Aziz Bhatti
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Major Raja Aziz Bhatti

ਰਾਜਾ ਅਜ਼ੀਜ਼ ਭੱਟੀراجا عزیز بھٹی

Pakistani officer killed defending the BRB canal on the Lahore front in 1965, awarded the Nishan-e-Haider.

Aziz Bhatti was born in Hong Kong in 1928 to a family from Ladian in the Gujrat district, and joined the Punjab Regiment. In September 1965 his company held the line of the BRB canal in the Burki sector east of Lahore for five days under constant attack.

He was killed by a tank shell on 12 September and awarded Pakistan's highest military honour, the Nishan-e-Haider.

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