Sharbat Ali Changezi

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| honorific_prefix = Air Marshal

| name = Sharbat Ali Changezi

| honorific_suffix = HI(M) SI(M) SBt

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| caption = Changezi in 1966

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1932|03|10}}

| birth_place = Quetta, Baluchistan, British India

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| allegiance = {{PAK}}

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| serviceyears = 1949–1987

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| rank = 20px Air Marshal

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| commands = No. 26 Squadron{{cite web |url=http://www.pakdef.info/pakmilitary/airforce/squadrons/sqdr26.html |title=Pakistan Military Consortium :: www.PakDef.info |website=www.pakdef.info |access-date=20 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829062015/http://www.pakdef.info/pakmilitary/airforce/squadrons/sqdr26.html |archive-date=29 August 2012 |url-status=dead}}

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| battles = Indo-Pakistani war of 1965
Indo-Pakistani war of 1971

| awards = 50px Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military)
50px Sitara-e-Imtiaz (Military)
50px Sitara-e-Basalat

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Sharbat Ali Changezi {{small|HI(M) SI(M) SBt}} (Urdu: {{nq|شربت على ݘݩگݐڒی}}; b. 10 March 1932),{{cite web |last1=Papolazov |first1=Arshad |title=Deedar e Air Marshal R Sharbat Ali Changezi Part1-6 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CbQzvBWR4Q |website=www.youtube.com |publisher=MechidTV, Bio 1 |accessdate=17 July 2018 |date=15 June 2012}} is a retired three-star air officer in the Pakistan Air Force and a former fighter pilot who led the aerial operations in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 and 1971.{{cite news |title=KARACHI: Tribute paid to heroes of 1965 war |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/57554 |accessdate=17 July 2018 |work=Dawn |date=17 September 2002}}{{cite book|last=Fricker|first=John|title=Battle for Pakistan: the air war of 1965|year=1979|publisher=I. Allan|isbn=978-0711009295|pages=153}}{{cite news|title=Hope fades away for Hazaras of Pakistan|url=http://dawn.com/2012/06/29/hope-fades-away-for-hazaras-of-pakistan/|accessdate=21 August 2012|newspaper=Dawn|date=29 June 2012|author=Saleem Javed}}

In 1955, Changezi notably refused to meet the Afghan Monarch Zahir Shah, while he was on visit to Pakistan, because of the ill-treatment meted out to the Hazara people in Afghanistan.{{cite news|title=Planned Extermination: Balochistan's Shia Hazara Community|url=http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2012/05/planned-extermination-balochistans-shia-hazara-community/|accessdate=21 August 2012|newspaper=Newsline|date=18 May 2012|author=Nadir Hassan}}{{Cite web |title=Planned Extermination: Balochistan's Shia Hazara Community |url=https://newslinemagazine.com/magazine/planned-extermination-balochistans-shia-hazara-community/ |access-date=2022-06-16 |website=Newsline |language=en}}

Changezi is a relative of Musa Khan and is married to the daughter of Musa Khan.{{cite news|url=https://jang.com.pk/thenews/jan2013-weekly/nos-20-01-2013/spr.htm#1|title=Hazaras' thousand woes|work=The News|first=Rahimullah|last=Yusufzai|authorlink=Rahimullah Yusufzai|date=2013|access-date=14 June 2023|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130329053542/https://jang.com.pk/thenews/jan2013-weekly/nos-20-01-2013/spr.htm#1|archivedate=29 March 2013|url-status=live|quote=Musa’s son-in-law Air Marshal Sharbat Ali Changezi was another member of the Hazara ethnic group...}}

Career with the Airforce

= 1965 War service =

Changezi was involved in a dogfight with Indian warplanes over Lahore district in which he and his wingman shot down Indian planes.{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000829175808/http://www.defencejournal.com:80/sept99/air-battle.htm |url=http://www.defencejournal.com:80/sept99/air-battle.htm|archive-date=29 August 2000|website=Defence Journal|title=Air Battle over Lahore 20 September, 1965 }}

= 1971 War service =

During the 1971 war, Changezi was the officer commanding of the No. 26 Squadron of the PAF flying F-86 Sabres.

Awards and decorations

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|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=Sitara-e-Harb 1965 War Ribbon.png|width=130}}

|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=Sitara-e-Harb 1971 War.png|width=130}}

|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=War Medal 1965(Tamgha-e-Jang, A.H.1385).png|width=130}}

{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=Tamgha-e-Jang 1971 War.png|width=130}}

|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=Tamgha-e-Sad Saala Jashan-e-Wiladat-e-Quaid-e-Azam.png|width=130}}

|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=Republic Medal 1956 (Pakistan).png|width=130}}

|{{Ribbon devices|number=0|type=award-star|ribbon=Hijri Tamgha.png|width=130}}

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| colspan="1" |Hilal-e-Imtiaz

(Military)

(Crescent of Excellence)