In the Harnai helicopter crash, six Pakistan Army personnel perished: ISPR

The Martyred Officers. Source: Online

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) reported on Monday that a helicopter crash near Khost in Harnai, Balochistan, killed six Pakistan Army officials, including two majors.

Two pilots are among the six crew members who have "embraced shahadat," according to the military's media affairs division.

The following names of the martyred officials:

• Major Khurram Shahzad, a pilot who lives in Attock, is 39 years old. He had one daughter and was married.
• Major Muhammad Muneeb Afzal, a pilot who lives in Rawalpindi, is thirty years old. He had two sons and was married.
• Subedar Abdul Wahid, a 44-year-old local of Karak's Sabirabad village. Three sons and a daughter were among his three children from his previous marriage.
• Makhdoompur, Khanewal, resident Sepoy Muhammad Imran, age 27. He had a son, two daughters, and a wife.
• Naik Jalil, 30, is from the Gujrat district's village of Bhutta, Lohara, Teh Kharian. He had two sons and was married.
• Sepoy Shoaib, 35, is from the Attock district's Khatarphatti PO Syeeda Teh Jhand village. He had a son and was married.

The ISPR has not yet provided information regarding the crash's cause, which occurred more than a month after a comparable incident in Balochistan.

In the Lasbela district of Baluchistan, on August 1, a Pakistan Army helicopter carrying six people, including Commander 12 Corps Lieutenant General Sarfraz Ali, lost contact with the air traffic controller.

A day later, the helicopter's wreckage was discovered close to Musa Goth, with all of the crew members embracing martyrdom. The ISPR claims that the accident was caused by bad weather.

Too many collisions:

Fawad Chaudhry of PTI responded to the news of the most recent crash by saying that helicopter flying was becoming dangerous and necessitated "engineering evaluation."

"Too many crashes, bravehearts. Rest in peace. "They were all too young to pass away," he said.

Sherry Rehman, the minister of the environment, expressed her sorrow over the fatalities in the collision. She prayed for the slain officials' families as well.