Through Courtesy of the Sargodhian
For a considerable time before 1953, negotiations had been proceeding between the Government of Pakistan and Air Service Training Ltd., a British company which had experience in running air training centres. The school was to be started under a British Principal and British key staff on the model of English public schools. The interest taken by the Government of Pakistan in the project can be gauged from the fact that amongst others, the school’s Board of Governors included Secretary Defence and C-in-C RPAF as Chairman and Deputy Chairman respectively. The original staff consisted of Mr. Sprawson and eight British masters. Col Swetenham as Bursar, Dr. White as Medical Officer and Miss Watt as nursing sister. In February were appointed Mr. Taqvi and Mr. Qureshi and in December Mr. Kazi. The commemoration stone of the new institution was laid by Mian Aminuddin, the governor of Punjab in 1953. The first batch of 100 students was inducted into the school from West and East Pakistan. After a modest start in 1953, the school progressed with amazing speed and by 1955, the construction of the residential blocks was completed. The last month of 1957 saw a big change in the management of the school when Mr. Sprawson, the founder principal left for England on expiry of his contract. He was to be succeeded by Mr. Hugh Catchpole, a legendary personality, who had served for a long time as Principal of the Royal Indian Military College (RIMC) Dehra Dun, India. However he could not join the school immediately as he was working as principal of Cadet College Hasan Abdal. Therefore Mr. Stott, the school headmaster was asked to take over as principal for two months only. Mr. Hugh Catchpole took over as Principal on 20 February 1958. The period after that was the golden era in which the school was transformed into an institution. Besides the ever flourishing academic activities, the school started providing regular glider training to the students in 1960.
First Entry: 101 students joined February 1953
9. Syed Masood Zaidi; Attacker
17. Aftab Alam Khan; Fury
19. Ali Kazim; Fury
31. Omar Aziz Saiyid; Tempest
43. Syed Hassan Varis; Tempest
57. Ghulam Mohammad Malik ; Attacker
69. Farooq Feroze Khan; Fury
Air Chief Marshal Farooq Feroze Khan NI(M), Sbt
72. Anis Akram Baig; Attacker
82. M. Anis Ahmed Ataullah; Tempest
Anis Ataullah First Sargodhian to pass out from RMA Sandhurst. Best overseas Cadet (82 Tempest)
Second Entry: 55 students joined in February 1955
109. Moslehuddin Ahmed; Attacker
115. S.M. Anas; Attacker
118. Tariq Habib Khan; Tempest
Wing Commander Retd. Tariq Habib Khan SJ (118 Tempest)
- Aaley Ahmed; Fury
Major Alley Ahmed Shaheed SJ (125 Fury)
- Aftab Zia Malik; Fury
136. Arshad Sami Khan; Fury
Squadron Leader Retd. Arshad Sami Khan SJ (136 Fury)
147. Saiful Azam; Attacker
Group Captain Retd. Saif-ul Azam SJ & Bar (147 Attacker)
152. Samin Jan Baba; Sabre
Lt. Colonel Samin Jan Babar SJ & Bar (152 Sabre)
156. Javed Afzaal Ahmed; Tempest
Squadron Leader Retd. Javed Afzaal Ahmed SJ (156 Tempest)
Third Entry: 55 students joined in October 1955
161. Bakhtiar Beig Mirza; Attacker
163. Nasir Mahmood Wariach; Tempest
164. Khizar Hayat; Attacker
164. Javed Akbar Khan; Attacker
173. Anis Abbas; Attacker
177. Nisar Hussain Tiwana; Sabre
180. Mohammad Gulzar Bhatti; Sabre
183. Pervez Iqbal; Attacker
184. Abbas H. Mirza; Sabre
Fourth Entry: 57 students joined in March 1956
218. Iqbal Javed Younus; Fury
221. Mohiuddin Ahmed; Attacker
235. Khalid Abbas Reza; Tempest
257. Syed Shahid Reza; Tempest
Flight Lt. Shahid Raza TJ (257 Tempest)
260. Maqsood Amir; Tempest
261. M. Fayyazuddin; Attacker
269. M. Mati-ur Rehman; Tempest
Fifth Entry: 42 students joined in September 1956
273. M. Erfan-uddin; Attacker
274. Mamoon ur Rashid; Attacker
279. Zahid Mohsin Rashid; Attacker
281.Shafiq Haider; 281 Fury
286. Momin Arif; Tempest
288. Tariq Nazir Syed; Sabre
301. Shahid Zulfiqar; Attacker
303. Mohammad Zaheeruddin; Attacker
307. Hamid Rauf; Fury
308. Khawaja Shahid Hasan; Attacker
311. Tasneem Noorani; Attacker
Sixth Entry: 35 students joined in September 1957
318. Amjad Qurban Khalid; Fury
320. Shehryar Qutub; Attacker
323. Aliuddin; Attacker
324. Hasan Pervez; Fury
325. Junaid Maqsood; Sabre
327. Salamul Haq Ansari; Fury
335. Shafiq-ul Haq; Sabre
337. Nazimullah Choudhry; Attacker
340. Mushtaq Ahmed; Attacker
341. Mizan-ur Rehman; Attacker
345. Jashim-uddin; Tempest
346. Abdul Muqeet; Tempest
Seventh Entry: 43 students joined in September 1958
349. M. Idrees Hussain; Sabre
351. Akber Hussain; Attacker
353. Nazrul Islam; Attacker
354. Masood Anwar; Attacker
356. Syed Safi Mustafa; Tempest
Flight Lt. Safi Mustafa SJ (Shaheed)
C-in-C Asghar Khan awarding gliding wings to Safi Mustsafa (356 Tempest)
358. Shahid Aziz Siddiqui; Attacker
361. Kamran Yousaf Mirza; Attacker
362. Ozair A. Hansafi; Tempest
366. Saeed Anwer; Fury
370. Ilyas Beig Mirza; Fury
371. Abdul Rauf Khan; Tempest
372. Rabnawaz Khan; Sabre
375. Ahmed Saeed; Tempest
380. Azad Ayub; Fury
381. Abdul Qadeer Mansoor; Fury
382. M. A. Kassem Choudhry; Attacker
384. Saulat Javed; Sabre
385. Syed Feiz Mehdi; Attacker
389. Masud Hassan Khan; Attacker
Eight Entry: 32 students joined in January 1959
391. Ejaz Syed; Attacker
392. Ghulam Ahmsad Warsi; Attacker
393. Ayaz Hussain Tiwana; Sabre
395. Kamaluddin Akbar; Attacker
399. M. Ruhul Amin; Attacker
401. Mohammad Hanif Amin; Tempest
402. Syed Nasim Hussain; Sabre
406. Mir Saiful Islam; Sabre
409. Zahidul Karim Khan; Attacker
410. Mansoor Salim Ahmed; Sabre
411. Ershad Ahsan; Tempest
416. Sikander Hayat Shah; Fury
417. Nasir Ali Khan; Attacker
420. Shamimuddin Munir; Attacker
Ninth Entry: 59 students joined in September 1959
424 Azhar Ali Bukhari; Sabre, Flying Officer. (C130 crash)
425 Jamal Hussain; Tempest (Air Commodore Retd.)
426 Shahid Kamal Khan; Sabre (Air Commodore Retd.)
427 Kaleem uddin Rehman Sabre; East Pakistan
428 Nasir Hussain Khan; Sabre (Group Captain Retd.)
429 Mohammad Nazarul Islam; Attacker; East Pakistan
430 Saeed-uz Zaman Khan; Tempest (Flight Lieutenant Retd. POW)
431 Sohail Ahmed Tempest
432 Syed Niaz Nabi; Attacker (Group Captain Retd.)
433 Syed Mohammad Razi Imam; Tempest
434 Syed Mohammad Husain; Attacker (Captain PIA Retd.)
435 Basit Hamid; Tempest
436 AKM Hayatullah Farooqi; Attacker; East Pakistan
437 Muhammad Rafiq; Fury
438 Nazarul Islam; Tempest; East Pakistan
439 Muhammad Tehseen; Attacker (ex-Business Aviation Pilot)
440 Daud Humayun Baig; Sabre
441 Ahmed Badaruz Zaman; Attacker; East Pakistan
442 Farid Ali Shah; Tempest
Air Commodore Retd. Fareed Ali Shah (442 Tempest)
443 Abdul Khaliq; Fury
444 Jamil Ashraf; Sabre (PIA Flight Service)
445 Haroon Rashid Mirza; Sabre
446 Nazar Hayat;Tempest
447 Ahsan Saleem Hyat; Sabre
General Retd. Ahsan Saleem Hyat HI(M). VCOAS
448 Akbar Ghani; Sabre
449 Nazar Hayat Khan; Attacker (Group Captain Retd.)
450 Kamaluddin Mahmood Attacker; East Pakistan
451 Sikander Hayat Khan Attacker
452 Amir Ahmed Khan; Attacker; East Pakistan
453 Sajjad Anwar Kha; Attacker
454 Shafqat Haroon; Tempest
Captain Shafqat Haroon SJ Shaheed (454 Tempest)
455 Hamiduz Zafar Ahmed; Fury
456 Tariq Maqbool Elahi; Tempest
457 Syed Imtiaz Hyder; Tempest
Air Vice Marshal Retd. Imtiaz Hyder ( 457 Tempest)
458 Khalid Mahmood Khalid ‘KMK’ ; Sabre (Group Captain Retd.)
459 Nasir Ahmed Siddiqui;Tempest
460 Sikander Malik Awan; Fury
461 M. Bilal Khan Fury
Air Commodore Retd. Muhammad Bilal Khan (461 Fury)
462 Masood Ahmed Sharif; Attacker
463 AKM Ziauddin Ahmed Fury; East Pakistan
464 Pervez Ajmal; Fury
465 Tariq Bari Sheikh; Tempest
466 Mohammad Tahir Aslam; Fury
467 Imtiaz- ul Haq Khan; Attacker (Pilot Officer Killed in motorcycle
crash Masroor Base)
468 Marghoob Hasan; Fury
469 Mehboob Elahi Choudhry; Sabre; East Pakistan
470 Riaz Khan Fury
Riaz Khan SJ, Captain Retd., Pakistan Navy (470 Fury)
471 Mazhar Ghareeb Nawaz Fury (Aircraft Engineer PIA)
472 Iftikhar Khan Fury
473 Farooq Saeed Anwer Fury
474 Mateen; Attacker
475 Jawaid Masud; Tempest
476 Syed Farooq Ahmed Ali; Attacker (removed from school for mischief)
477 Waheed Qazi; Fury
478 K.B. Mehboob- ul Alam; Sabre (East Pakistan)
479 Saif- ur Rehman Tariq; Sabre East Pakistan
480 Zakaullah Ranjha; Fury (Pakistan Air Force)
481 Saleem A. Farooqi; Sabre
482 Ishtiaq Bashir; Attacker (Brigadier)
Tenth Entry: 31 students joined in October 1960
484. Sultan Muhammad Khan; Attacker
493. Rafi-uddin; Attacker
495. Syed Kaiser Ahmed; Attacker
498. M. Shams-ul Haq; Attacker
499. Hasnat Ahmed; Attacker
504. Asad Jehangir; Sabre
506. Rafiq Ahmed; Sabre
507. Syed Asif Hasnain; Attacker
512. Shahid Javed; Attacker
513. Syed Masood Alam; Fury
Eleventh Entry: 50 students joined in January 1961
514. Hassan Reza Kizilbash; Attacker
516. Syed Rafatullah Shah; Attacker
518. Khalid Zareef Khan; Fury
519. Syed Tahir Mehdi; Attacker
521. Luftul Anis Ahmed; Attacker
523. Mian Shahid Waseem; Tempest
527. Mahmood Gul; Tempest
529. Pervez Jung Bahadur; Fury
538. Ramizul Karim Khan; Attacker
542. Ayaz Ahmed Sipra; Attacker
548. Syed Hadi Rizvi; Attacker
Syed Hadi Rizvi (548 Attacker)
549. Musharraf Hussain; Attacker
551. Ehsanullah; Fury
556. Saeed Afzal Khan; Fury
Flight Lt. Saeed Afzal SJ (556 Fury)
Twelfth Entry: 38 students joined in September 1961
568. Javed Iqbal; Sabre
Flight Lt. Javed Iqbal TJ (586 Sabre)
571. Riffat Saeed Khan; Attacker
574. Riaz Sarwar; Attacker
575. Syed Mohammad Asif; Attacker
576. Sakhawat Hussain; Attacker
577. Feroze Hussain; Fury
581. Pervez Akhtar Nawaz; Fury
589. Ehsan-ul-Haque; Fury
General Retd. Ehsan-ul Haque HI(M) (589 Fury)
596. M. Mahboob-ul Islam; Attacker
597. Syed Rahat Zafar; Attacker
Thirteenth Entry : 67 students joined in September 1962
624. Naseem Anwer Deen; Fury
623. Luqman Aziz Qazi; Attacker
615. Khalid Ahmed Kidwai; Sabre

General Retd. Khalid Ahmed Kidwai
664. Nisar Ali Baig; Sabre
Flying Officer Nisar Ali Baig TJ (664 Sabre)
672. Laeeq Ahmed; Attacker
675. Naeem Ghafoor Sheikh; Sabre
695. Muhammad Shujaat Azim; Fury
697. Kaleem Saadat; Fury
Ninth Entry induction in 1959 by Syed Imtiaz Haider 457 Tempest
The school number spread was from 424 to 482. Four boys did not join. The remaining
55 boys were divided in four houses; 16 in Attacker, 15 in Fury, 14 in Sabre, and 11 in Tempest. As in all pre-1971 intakes, the entries were an excellent mix of boys from all parts of Pakistan. In the 9th, 21 boys had been selected from East Pakistan, the rest from other provinces in the West. The entry was placed in Class VII except for a few who were placed in Class VIII.
An exceptionally large number of the 9th Entry boys joined the Air Force and the other two Service academies. 29 joined the PAF College Risalpur, 4 got into the Army, and 1, Riaz Khan got commissioned in the PN. The PAF Entries joined the 42nd, 43rd, 44th, 45th and 47th GD(P). Shahid Kamal (426 Sabre) and Niaz Nabi (432 Attacker) were selected and trained in Cranwell, UK.
Azhar Ali Bukhari (424 Sabre) was the proud winner of the Sword of Honour for best all-round performance at the Passing out of the 43rd GD (P) on 22 January 1967. Unfortunately he crashed in his early days. May God Bless his soul. Jamal Hussain continued to top in academics in the Air Force too.
Six boys rose to high ranks in the PAF; two rose to one-star and above. Ahsan Saleem Hyat (447 Sabre) is a General and VCOAS, Pakistan Army. Riaz Khan rose to be a captain in the Pakistan Navy. He received Sitara-i-Jurat in the 1971 war. Shafqat Haroon (454 Tempest) joined the Pakistan Army and won a posthumously awarded SJ in the 1971 war in East Pakistan. The boys of the 9th have also received two
Hilal-i-Imtiaz (Military), numerous Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Sitara-i-Basalat
and Tamgha-i-Basalat.
Akbar Ghani (448 Sabre) and Mazhar (471 Fury) have done very well and established themselves in the field of medicine in Australia and USA respectively. Badaruzzaman (441 Attacker), the studious one, did his Ph.D in nuclear physics and is heading a research division of Chevron in USA. Zafar (455 Fury) has made a mark in the aviation travel industry and sits as SVP of Amadeus in Karachi. Nasir (428 Sabre), Nazar (449 Attacker), Niaz (432 Attacker), Jamil Ashraf (444 Sabre) and Zakaullah (480 Fury)
are flying for PIA.
Seven of the boys from the 9th are no more with us:
1. Azhar Ali Bukhari (424 Sabre): C130 crash
2. Imtiaz-ul Haq Khan (467 Attacker): unfortunate road accident at Masroor
3. Shafqat Haroon (454 Tempest): martyred in 1971 War in East Pakistan
4. Ziauddin (463 Fury): Base Commander Dhaka, Bangladesh, died of natural causes
5. Marghoob (468 Fury): lost in MiG21 accident
6. Ishtiaq Bashir (482 Attacker) 2004: heart failure
7. Masood Sharif (462 Attacker) 2007: Open heart surgery
A unique honour held by the 9th entry is engraved in the history of the school itself. When the revival of the Sargodha Public School was approved in 1991, Air Commodore Fareed ali Shah (442 Tempest) was selected to be its first Commandant. It was his vision and perseverance that brought back the past distinction and the revered high standards of the School in accordance with its motto ‘Aim High’. He was followed by Air Commodore Muhammad Bilal Khan (461 Fury) and then Air Commodore Imtiaz Hyder (457 Tempest).
Attacker House 1962
Housemaster Attacker House
Tempest House 1963
Mr. Hugh Catchpole Principal 1958-1967.

School Staff with Air Marshal Asghar Khan C-in-C 1959
Refreshing to see this page with the request to be added in the list at
1st entry (1953-1958).
Mian Ahmed Rabbani 27Tempest Retd EVP, PKIC Senior Banker.
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