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Captain Mohammad Iqbal Khan Shaheed

Captain Muhammad Iqbal Khan was born , on the 15th of November, 1960 in a small village called Pashtoon Garhi, in the then District of Peshawar now delineated in District Nowshera, in the North West Frontier Province  presently called Khyber Pukhtunkhwa of Pakistan. From his very childhood, Muhammad Iqbal Khan was known to be a very brave and daring person. He was pure in the heart and mind and  never bore any grudge towards anyone. I have heard alot about him from my family. My great-grandmother loved him the most of all of her grandchildren. When I was a kid, he used to visit us in Peshawar. I vaguely remember him. I heard that he wanted to become a doctor ever since he was a kid, but then later during his college days, he changed his mind and chose to join the armed forces. He joined the Pakistan army in 1982. I once visited the castle on Attock bridge where he used to stay. On the 21st of September, 1987 he was sent to Siachin, which is the world's highest battlefield. He