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| Squadron Leader Athar Bukhari of No. 14 Squadron was the pilot of F-16 while this night interception was conducted on radar by Squadron Leader Taufiq Raja. Painting by S. M. Akhtar Hussaini depicting the encounter of August 4, 1988. |
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| Squadron Leader Athar Bukhari shot down one Russian Su-25 near Miranshah on August 4, 1988. The wreckage of shot down aircraft was located but not pilot. Tribal people caught pilot the next evening and handed him over to authorities. [Read also: Shooting Down the First Soviet Aircraft] |
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| A reconstructed AIM-9L missile that was use to intercept Soviet-Afghan air raids. |
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| Major General Ghazi-ud-din Rana presenting a Kalashnikov rifle to Flight Lieutenant Khalid Mehmood. |
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| The wing of Russian Su-25 aircraft shot down by Squadron Leader Athar Bukhari near Miranshah on August 4, 1988. |
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| Commanding Officer with controllers at the site of the Mashlak Radar. |
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