Khademul Bashar

Khademul Bashar was born in Bogura on 1 September 1935. He passed his matriculation from Satkhira Prananath High School and intermediate from Rajshahi College. He joined the Pakistan Air Force as a flight cadet in 1955.{{cite book |last=Mostafizur Rahman |first=FM |year=2012 |chapter=Bashar, Air Vice Marshal M Khademul |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Bashar,_Air_Vice_Marshal_M_Khademul |editor1-last=Sirajul Islam |editor1-first= |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh}}

Bashar enlisted in Pakistan Air Force Academy in 1954 and was commissioned on general duties (pilot) in 1956. His initial parent unit was No. 16 Squadron. Before his repatriation, he served at different capacities such as second in command of No. 7 Squadron and No. 25 Squadron. He was promoted to the rank of Wing Commander in 1970 and was posted as staff officer at then PAF Base Tejgaonhttps://songramernotebook.com/archives/502807 he was as senior operations officer of Tejgaon Air Base until 27 March 1971. Bashar, Group Captain A. K. Khandker, and several other East Pakistani pilots defected in May 1971 and escaped to India.{{cite journal |last=Badrul Alam |first= |date=March 1973 |title=How Bangladesh Air Force was Born |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oe4sAAAAIAAJ&q=Khandker+ |journal=Indian Left Review |volume=II |issue=1 |page=67}} He was one of only two airforce officers during Bangladesh Liberation War and was designated him Mukti Bahini Commander Sector 6. Later on November 3 General M.A.G Osmani designated Muhammad Hamidullah Khan as commander of Sector 6.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}

After the independence of Bangladesh Bashar was promoted to the rank of Group Captain in February 1972 and initially served in the army for establishing the 72nd Independent Infantry Brigade as deputy of Colonel Chitta Ranjan Dutta. He was then designated as air officer commanding the BAF Base Tejgaon. In 1973 he was promoted to the rank of Air Commodore and returned to newly formed Air Headquarters as Director (Operations) and Provost Marshal. Bashar was then ameliorated to Air Vice Marshal and was appointed the Chief of Air Staff of Bangladesh Air Force on 1st May 1976. Within his truncated tenure, Bashar inaugurated the first two Shenyang J-6 squadrons (No. 5 squadron & No. 8 squadron) of Bangladesh Air Force. https://songramernotebook.com/archives/502807

Khademul Bashar died on 1 September 1976 in an air crash. He was attending the inauguration of the Flying Instructors School at Tejgaon in Dhaka on a Air Tourer. On its maiden flight, an NZAI Air Tourer rolled over and crashed nose down into the airfield. Both the pilot, Squadron Leader Mofizul Haq and Bashar were killed instantly.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/Country-By-Country/Bangla_Desh.htm |title=Chronological Listing of Bangla-Deshi Air Force Losses & Ejections |access-date=2009-05-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222202807/http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/country-by-country/bangla_desh.htm |archive-date=2014-12-22 |url-status=dead }} BAF Base at Tejgaon, Dhaka has been renamed Base Bashar in his honour.

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