Pakistan honors and pays tribute to Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas, the winner of the Nishan-e-Haider, on his 53rd martyrdom day. Prayers and the recitation of the Quran started the day at mosques all around the nation.
Special prayers were arranged by religious scholars in order to elevate the dignity of the martyr. They underlined how important it is to remember martyrs, saying that society owes them a duty for their sacrifices.
The celebration highlights how important Minhas’s sacrifice is still to Pakistan’s national story.