According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), a helicopter that was on a flying assignment when it crashed near Khost in Harnai, Balochistan, killed six Pakistan Army personnel, including two majors.
The military’s media affairs branch stated that the event happened late last night and that “all six people on board, including two pilots, had accepted shahadat.”
The officials who were killed were named as follows:
Attock resident and pilot Major Khurram Shahzad, 39. He had been married and had one daughter.
Major Muhammad Muneeb Afzal, a pilot aged 30, is from Rawalpindi. His two sons and he were married.
Subedar Abdul Wahid, a local of Karak’s Sabirabad hamlet, is 44 years old. He was married and had four kids—three sons and a daughter.
Sepoy Muhamad Imran, a 27-year-old Khanewal native from Makhdoompur. He has two girls and a son; he was married.
Naik Jalil, 30, hails from the village of Bhutta in the Gujrat district’s Lohara Teh Kharian. His two sons and he were married.
a 35-year-old man named Sepoy Shoaib who lives in the Attock district’s Khatarphatti PO Syeeda Teh Jhand village. With his wife, he had a son.
The crash, which occurred more than a month after a comparable incident in Balochistan, has not yet been connected to any specific causes by the ISPR.
In the Lasbela district of Balochistan on August 1, a Pakistan Army helicopter carrying six persons, including Commander 12 Corps Lieutenant General Sarfraz Ali, lost communication with the air traffic controller.
A day later, all of the onboard troops were embracing martyrdom as the helicopter’s wreckage was discovered close to Musa Goth. The ISPR claims that inclement weather had a part in the tragedy.