Brigadier [Retd] Nisar Ahmad Khan (28 March 1920 - 30 July 2019)

摘要

Brigadier ® Nisar Ahmad Khan passed away on 30 July 2019 in Michigan, USA. He was nick named 'Kaka Nisar'. A fine officer and gentleman who was instrumental in a very important holding action of armor in the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War faded away into the fog of history. He was bom on 28 March 1920 at Bassi Pathana near Sirhind in Patiala state which was a Muslim Pathan colony established during the Mughal era. This small Muslim enclave in a Sikh state provided soldiers to the Maharaja of Patiala. Several generations of Nisar's ancestors proudly served Patiala state. According to Maharaja Patiala Captain ® Amarindar Singh, Kaka Nisar was sixth generation of the family to serve Patiala state. He followed the family tradition, joined 1 st Patiala (Rajindra) Lancers and commissioned on 21 March 1943.