Tribute to Sipahi Maqbool Hussain

It is the sacrifice of our people which kept this country together. We all must acknowledge their sacrifice. Our next generation must be familiar with the price of freedom paid by our ancestors.This Defence Day, my 10 years old has researched & wrote a tribute to Late Sepoy Maqbool Hussain:
 

Sepoy Maqbool Hussain was from Azad Kashmir Regiment. He with his five unit personnel had a mission across the border in 1965 .They carried out sixteen blasts and killed seventy people. The Indians were extremely annoyed and they planned an ambush on them. But they could only injure Sepoy Maqbool Hussain and they took him as prisoner. He was considered MIA (Missing in Action) and was believed to be Shaheed. He spent forty years in prison. One night his Sikh friend opened his cell lock and told him the way to the railway station. The next day, he reached station but after few minutes he was captured again. In those forty years, whenever Indians questioned him, he only said one thing,” PAKISTAN ZINDABAD”. The Indians got so annoyed that they ripped his tongue off. Even with the blood coming out of his tongue, he wrote “PAKISTAN ZINDABAD”. After nearly four decades of his capture, during prison exchange in 2005, he was released and entered Pakistan from Wagah Borders. Unfortunately, his close relatives were not in this world to receive him. Whenever, he was asked for his identity he wrote this number 331539. It was his army number. So the army verified his number and they realized that it was Sepoy Maqbool Hussain. He passed away few days back. For his sacrifice for the nation he was awarded by Sitara- i- Jurrat.

A TRIBUTE TO ACKNOWLEDGE SACRIFICE, PATRIOTISM AND COURAGE OF LATE SEPOY MAQBOOL HUSSAIN

ON DEFENCE DAY

6 SEPTEMBER 2018

BY

HAMZA BIN ASAD

I have nothing to add.
May Allah bless the departed soul. Ameen