Nayrouz Agency

His Excellency Colonel Raja Tanveer Ahmed Khan / Military Attache at the Pakistani Embassy in Jordan, received Omar Armouti / author of the books entitled "Kashmir Crisis” and au” The Jordanian-Pakistani Relations”.

Al-Armouti praised the close brotherly relations between Jordan and Pakistan

Armouti praised the honorable stances of Pakistan during the most difficult circumstances, including the act of the Pakistani pilot, Saif ul-Deen  al-Azam during the June 1967 war.

In 1967, the Pakistani pilot Saif ul-Deen al-Azam was in Jordan on a mission to train Jordanian air force pilots, when the Arab-Israeli war broke out, he accompanied the Jordanian pilots to the Habbaniyah base in Iraq after that Israel has bombed Jordanian airports. Saif ul-Deen flew the Hawkerhuntar from there and dropped three Israeli jets in air combat with advanced Israeli jets in three days… Saif ul-Deen became the only pilot in the world who dropped three (Zionist) jets within 72 hours during air-to-air combat, and that record still exists to this day.

Saif ul-Deen is the only pilot in the world flew aircrafts from three different air forces, namely Pakistan, Jordan and Iraq.

At the end of the meeting, Al-Armouti presented a certificate of appreciation from the Literature and Culture Salon of to His Excellency Colonel Raja Tanveer Ahmed Khan in the name of the heroic Pakistani military pilot Saif ul-Deen  al-Azam.