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| {{Other people|Matiur Rahman}} | |||
| {{Infobox military person | |||
| |name = Matiur Rahman | |||
| |native_name = মতিউর রহমান | |||
| |native_name_lang= bn | |||
| |image = Matiur rahman.jpg | |||
| |image_size = 200px | |||
| |caption = Matiur Rahman ranked as Flt. Lt. (c.1967) | |||
| |birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1941|11|29}} | |||
| |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1971|08|20|1941|10|29}} | |||
| |birth_place = ], ], ] (now ]) | |||
| |death_place = ], ] | |||
| |nickname = | |||
| |allegiance = {{Flag|Pakistan}} (till March 1971)<br/>{{flag|Bangladesh|1971}} (after 1971) | |||
| |branch = {{air force|Pakistan}} | |||
| |serviceyears = 1963–71 (his death) | |||
| |rank = ] | |||
| |servicenumber=PAK/4367 | |||
| |unit = ] | |||
| |commands = | |||
| |battles = ] ] | |||
| |awards = ] | |||
| |spouse = Milly Rahman<ref name="auto"/> | |||
| |laterwork = | |||
| }} | |||
| '''Matiur Rahman''' (29 October 1941{{snd}}20 August 1971) was a flight lieutenant of ] and a recipient of ], Bangladesh's highest military gallantry award for his actions during the ]. | |||
| He attempted, to escape from Pakistan and join the Bangladesh Liberation War, to hijack a ] aircraft (code named "Blue Bird"<ref name="bangladeshcontinual.blogspot.com.au">http://bangladeshcontinual.blogspot.com.au/2011/07/bir-sreshtho-matiur-rahman.html</ref>) being flown by a 21 year old Pilot Officer ], who was conducting his second solo flight. Rahman stopped the aircraft on the runway, climbed into the cockpit and knocked Minhas unconscious. He nearly reached the Indian border, but ] regained consciousness and diverted the plane. Both men struggled to control the low flying jet. Minhas then released the canopy, since he wasn't properly strapped in, Rahman flew out of the cockpit. The jet was flying too low for Minhas to recover. It shortly crashed nearby, killing him. For his support to the state of Bangladesh, Rahman was decorated by Bangladesh with the Bir Sreshtho award.<ref name=BBC>{{cite news |date=25 June 2006 |title=Bangladesh 'war hero' goes home |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5112868.stm |work=BBC News |access-date=18 June 2015}}</ref> | |||
| ==Biography== | |||
| Matiur Rahman was born on 29 November 1941 in ] Aga Sadek Road 109 in his ancestral houses "Mobarok Lodge". His father was Maulvi Abdus Samad and his mother was Syeda Khatun Mobarakunnesa. Among nine brothers and two sisters, Rahman was the sixth.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Rahman,_Birsrestha_Matiur|title=Rahman, Birsrestha Matiur – Banglapedia|website=en.banglapedia.org|access-date=17 November 2016}}</ref> | |||
| He completed his primary education at ]. After that he was admitted into ] in West Pakistan. On 15 August 1961, he joined the ] (then Pakistan Air Force College) at Risalpur.<ref name="bangladeshcontinual.blogspot.com.au"/> On 22 June 1963, Matiur Rahman was commissioned as a pilot officer from the 36th GD(P) Course and was posted at No. 2 Squadron of Mauripur Air Base (now Masroor) at Karachi in West Pakistan. After that he successfully completed the Jet Conversion Training on T-33 jet trainers in that base. He successfully passed the course with a mark of 75.66% and was earmarked for Fighter Conversion Training. Fighter Conversion Training took place in ] Jets, this course he passed with a mark of 81%. He was posted in Peshawar (in No.19 Squadron) due to his bright result in the Fighter Conversion Course.<ref name="bangladeshcontinual.blogspot.com.au"/><ref name=":0" /><ref>http://mukti-bahini.blogspot.com/2010/03/bengali-top-gun-paf.html</ref> | |||
| His rank was Flying Officer during the ]. After the war, he went back to Sargodha to attend the Mig Conversion Course. He was promoted to the rank of Flight Lieutenant in 1967. | |||
| ==During the Bangladesh Liberation War== | |||
| Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman smuggled the family of Group Captain Taher Quddus on Royal Saudi Arabian ] bound for Riyadh during the ].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Quddus|first1=Farhan|title=Tribute to a father|url=http://www.dhakatribune.com/op-ed/2014/sep/04/tribute-father|website=dhakatribune.com|publisher=Dhaka Tribune|accessdate=19 June 2015}}</ref> | |||
| Matiur Rahman and his family went to ] for a two-month vacation at the end of January 1971. He was staying in the village of Ramanagar in Raypur during the military operation of 25 March 1971 conducted by the ] in the name of ]. Despite being a member of the PAF, Rahman opened a training camp in Vairab and started training Bengali people who were willing to join the ]. He formed a small defence force with the willing members and a few collected weapons. His camp was bombed by the PAF on 14 April 1971. But Rahman anticipated the attack beforehand and changed the place of his camp. Thus, his crew and he was saved from the bombing. Rahman returned to Dhaka on 23 April and then returned to Karachi on 9 May with his family. | |||
| ==Death== | |||
| Matiur Rahman was an instructor pilot at ] in 1971.<ref>{{cite news |date=20 August 2014 |title=August 20 marks the death anniversary of Rashid Minhas |url=http://nation.com.pk/karachi/20-Aug-2014/august-20-marks-the-death-anniversary-of-rashid-minhas |newspaper=The Nation |accessdate=19 June 2015}}</ref> He was planning to defect to India with a plane to join the Bangladesh Liberation War. On 20 August 1971, Pilot Officer ] was scheduled to fly with a Lockheed T-33 training plane. Rahman saw Minhas about to take off and asked to join him.<ref>{{cite web|title=42nd Martyrdom Anniversary Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas Shaheed – SFP News|url=http://www.shaheedfoundation.org/foundationnews.asp?id=2165|website=www.shaheedfoundation.org|accessdate=3 January 2016}}</ref> He attempted to hijack the T-33 in midair from Karachi, Pakistan to India to join the liberation movement. He knocked out Rashid to that purpose.<ref>{{cite web|last1=APP|title=Rashid Minhas 39th death anniversary observed today|url=http://aaj.tv/2010/08/rashid-minhas-39th-death-anniversary-observed-today/|website=Aaj News|publisher=AAJ NEWS.|accessdate=3 January 2016}}</ref> | |||
| After taking the control of the plane, Rahman was flying it below the usual altitude to deceive the radar. Pakistan's version of events is that his trainee pilot, Minhas, forced the plane to crash rather than allow the hijacking to succeed.<ref name=BBC/> In another version, Minhas struggled physically to wrest control from Rahman; each man tried to overpower the other through the mechanically linked ]. Some {{convert|32|mi}} from the Indian border, the jet crashed near ]. Both men were killed.<ref name="PAF Shaheeds">{{cite web|url=http://www.paf.gov.pk/paf_shaheeds.html |title=PAF Shaheeds |work=PAF History |publisher=Pakistan Air Force |accessdate=31 January 2012}}</ref> Rahman's body was found near the crash site. | |||
| Rahman's widow, Milly, and his two daughters were imprisoned for a month by Pakistan Air Force, and were released on 29 September 1971.<ref name="dstar">{{cite news |date=25 June 2006 |title=Matiur's remains received in state honour |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/06/25/d6062501129.htm |newspaper=]}}</ref><ref>Rahman, Milly, ''Bir Shreshtho Matiur Smarak Grantho'', Agami Prokashoni, Dhaka, 2005. pages 70–73.</ref> | |||
| ==Grave transfer== | |||
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| After over 30 years of negotiations, Rahman's body was finally returned to Bangladesh on 24 June 2006 for a ceremonial and highly symbolic reburial in 2006. Pakistani foreign ministry spokesperson Tasneem Aslam described it as a 'goodwill gesture'.<ref>{{cite news |last=Abbas |first=Zaffar |date=20 April 2006 |title=Bengali hero's remains given back |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4928268.stm |work=BBC News |accessdate=18 June 2015}}</ref> He was buried at the Martyred Intellectuals Graveyard, in Mirpur, Dhaka, with full military honours.<ref name="dstar" /> His original burial in a grave in fourth class employees graveyard in Pakistan and the hanging of his photo at the entrance of Mashrur Airbase identifying him as a Traitor had been a sore point between Bangladesh and Pakistan for decades.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web|last1=Rahman|first1=Ashiqur|title=The Daily Star Web EditionVol. 5 Num 293|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2005/03/24/d5032401098.htm|website=archive.thedailystar.net|publisher=The Daily Star|accessdate=3 January 2016}}</ref> | |||
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| ==In fiction== | |||
| There is a docudrama based on Matiur's life named '''Ognibolaka''' where Bangladeshi film actor ] has acted in the role of Matiur and ] played the role of his wife Mili. | |||
| ==Legacy== | |||
| The ]'s Air Base at ] is also named after him.<ref name="auto">{{cite news |last1=Manik |first1=Julfikar Ali |title=Year ends with a milestone for women |url=http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2015/jan/01/year-ends-milestone-women |newspaper=Dhaka Tribune |access-date=18 June 2015}}</ref> The air force also gives out a trophy named after him for best performance in the flying training.<ref>{{cite news |date=18 June 2015 |title=President parade held at BAF Academy |url=http://www.theindependentbd.com/printversion/details/4127 |location=Dhaka |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=19 June 2015}}</ref>Birshreshto Matiur Rahman trophy (a.k.a Golden Pen award), named after him, is also awarded for the best Individual Research Paper of Air Wing in Defence Services Command and Staff College. Dining halls in the ] of Bangladesh are also named after him. | |||
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