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Shaukat
was narrating his colourful heroic experience in an interview
with BograInfoPortal. He is an admirable personality for the
younger generation and has a profound respect in Bogra. He
took part in the Indo-Pak war in 1965 as a Flying Officer
and flew a total of 19 operational missions. On 16th September
he was shot down in an F-86 Sabre Jet over Halwara, East Panjab
while in an aerial combat with a Hunter aircraft. His aircraft
caught fire and after ejection, while he was coming down by
parachute he was fired from the ground and got injured by
bullet wounds which was removed from his body after operation
in a Military hospital. He spent about four and a half months
as a prisoner of war and came back to join his old No 11 Squadron.
Thereafter he served in various fighter squadrons of the PAF
until 1970.
In
early 1971 he was posted to Turkish Air Force from where he
defected and came back to join the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF).
In Bangladesh he served for about 11 years in various posts,
like Squadron Commander of MIG-21 fighter squadron, Base Commander
Dhaka and retired as a Group Captain from the post of Assistant
Chief of Air staff ( Operation & Training) in 1982. In his
Air Force career of 21 years he flew 13 types of various fighters
and other aircrafts. After retirement from the BAF the government
of Bangladesh decided to utilize his experience in civil administration
and he was posted as Chairman Tourism Corporation, Chairman
Civil Aviation Authority and Managing Director Biman Bangladesh
Airlines. Shaukat-ul Islam finally retired from the civil
service in 1993. At present he is working as an Adviser with
a private company known as GETCO
Ltd
-M.H.
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