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{{Short description|Pakistani Air Force pilot (born 1944)}}
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| name = Sattar Alvi
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| birth_name = Abdus Sattar Alvi
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| nickname = ''Master of Migs''<ref name="Defence Journal, 1999">{{cite web|last1=Tufail, PAF|first1=Gp. Capt. (Col) Kaisar|title=Shahbaz Over Golan: The saga of an intrepid PAF pilot who humbled the Israelis|url=http://www.defencejournal.com/apr99/golan.htm|website=www.defencejournal.com|publisher=Defence Journal|access-date=28 August 2017|location=Islamabad|language=en-pk|date=April 1999}}</ref>
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1944}}
| birth_place = [[Jalandhar, Punjab]], [[British India]]
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| allegiance = Pakistan
| branch = [[Pakistan Air Force]]
| serviceyears = 1963–1998
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| rank = [[File:Air Cdre Pakistan Air Force.png|10px]][[File:US-O7 insignia.svg|15px]] [[Air Commodore|Air-Commodore]]
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| servicenumber = PAK-4534
| unit = [[List of Pakistan Air Force aircraft squadrons|No. 11 Squadron ''Arrows'']]
| commands = [[PAF Base Rafiqui]]<br />[[PAF Base Sargodha|Combat Commanders' School]]
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| battles = [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]]
* [[Indo-Pakistani Air War of 1965]]
[[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]]<br />[[Yom-Kippur War|Yom Kippur War of 1973]]<br />
| awards = [[File:Star of Excellence Sitara-e-Imtiaz.png|30px]][[Sitara-i-Imtiaz|Sitara-i-Imtiaz (military)]]<br />[[File:PAK Sitara-i-Juraat ribbon.svg|30px]][[Sitara-e-Jurat]]
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[[Air Commodore]] '''Abdus Sattar Alvi''' ([[Urdu]]: عبد الستار علوی), {{small|[[Sitara-i-Imtiaz|SI(M)]], [[Sitara-e-Jurat|SJ]]}}, is a retired [[One-star rank|one-star]] rank [[air officer]] and a [[fighter pilot]] in the [[Pakistan Air Force]], who is renowned for his gallant actions during the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971|third]] [[Indo-Pakistani wars|Indo-Pakistani]] in 1971, and served as a [[military advisor]] in the [[Syrian Arab Air Force|Syrian Air Force]] during the [[Yom Kippur War]] of 1973.<ref name="The Express Tribune, Alvi (2015)">{{cite news|last1=Alvi|first1=Air Cdre. Sattar|title=50 years on: Memories of the 1973 Arab-Israeli Conflict - The Express Tribune|url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/855837/50-years-on-memories-of-the-1973-arab-israeli-conflict/|access-date=28 August 2017|work=The Express Tribune|agency=The Express Tribune|publisher=The Express Tribune, Alvi (2015)|date=19 March 2015|location=Islamabad, Pakistan|language=en-pk}}</ref>

In 1974, Alvi [[Air-to-air missile|shot down]] the [[Israeli Air Force]]'s [[Dassault Mirage III|Mirage III]] over the [[dogfight]] took place in [[Golan Heights]] in Syria, and was honored for his bravery with gallantry war-time medals by [[Government of Syria|Syrian]] and [[Pakistan Government|Pakistan government]].<ref name="My Voice">{{cite web |title=The PAF Shaheens of International Fame |website=My Voice Unheard|url=http://myvoiceunheard.com/the-paf-shaheens-of-international-fame-pak/ |access-date=28 August 2017|language=en-pk|date=7 September 2016}}</ref>

==Biography==

Sattar Alvi was born in [[Jalandhar, Punjab]], [[British India]] in 1944, into a family that had the military background. His father was an [[Army officer|officer]] in the [[British Indian Army]] who later served in the [[Pakistan Army]].<ref name="PAF Shaheens">{{cite web|title=The PAF Shaheens of International Fame - My Voice Unheard|url=http://myvoiceunheard.com/the-paf-shaheens-of-international-fame-pak/|website=myvoiceunheard.com|publisher=PAF Shaheens|access-date=8 September 2017}}</ref> He was educated at the [[Bannu]] where he did his matriculation and attended the [[Government Emerson College|Emerson College]] in [[Multan]], [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]] where he secured his graduation.<ref name="PAF Shaheens"/>

In 1963, he was accepted to join the [[Pakistan Air Force Academy|Air Force Academy]] in [[Risalpur]] where he received his flight training on the [[Cessna T-37 Tweet|Cessna T-37T]], and graduated in General Duty Pilot (GD) course in 1965.<ref name="PAF Shaheens"/> [[Pilot Officer|P/Off.]] Alvi participated in the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965|second war]] with India in 1965, touring his duty as "Mail Runners" to convey messages from one base to another, served on this assignment until the [[Tashkent Agreement|war was ended]].<ref name="PAF Shaheens"/>

From 1966 to 1971, [[Flight Lieutenant|Flt.Lt]] ([[Captain (air force)|Capt.]]) Alvi was selected in the [[military adviser]] group for the [[Iraqi Air Force]], where he qualified as a [[test pilot]] for the [[MiG-21]] and sat up the training school for the [[Iraqi Air Force|Iraqi IAF]].<ref name="PAF Shaheens"/> He returned to Pakistan to participate in the [[Indo-Pakistani war of 1971|third war]] with India and flew the Quick Reaction Close Support Missions especially in Shakargarh, where the battle with the [[Indian Air Force|Indian IAF]] was the most turbulent.<ref name="PAF Shaheens"/> After the war in 1971, [[Flight Lieutenant|Flt.Lt]] Alvi was sent to join the faculty at the [[Pakistan Air Force Academy|Air Force Academy]] and served as a [[flight instructor]] on the flight manuals on the [[Chengdu J-7|F-7P]], a Chinese variant of [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21|MiG-21F]].<ref name="The Express Tribune, Alvi (2015)" />

===Yom Kippur War===
[[Pakistani prime minister]] [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]] sought to maintain close relationships with the [[Arab world]]. When the [[Yom Kippur war]] broke out, Alvi was one of the Pakistan Air Force fighter pilots who volunteered to go to the Middle East to support [[Egypt]] and [[Syria]]. By the time they arrived, however, [[Egypt]] and Israel had already concluded a ceasefire and only Syria remained in an active state of war against Israel.<ref>{{Cite web
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| title =1973 Arab Israeli War and PAF Pilots
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</ref> Alvi, who was serving as a [[Flight Lieutenant]] in 1973, joined the [[Syrian Air Force]] along with a Pakistani Squadron Leader Arif Manzoor. The Pakistani fighter pilots flew in a formation using the call-sign "''Shahbaz''" under the command of Squadron Leader Arif Manzoor.<ref>http://pavocavalry.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/shahbaz-over-golan-1973-war-golan-idf-click-on-top-to-enlarge/</ref>

===The Aerial fight over Golan===
On 26 April 1974, PAF fighter pilot [[Flight Lieutenant]] Sattar Alvi on deputation to No. 67A Squadron, [[Syrian Air Force]] (SAF) was flying a SAF [[Mig-21|MiG-21F-13]] (Serial No. 1863) out of Dumayr Air Base, Syria in an eight-ship formation with a fellow PAF pilot and the Flight Leader, [[Squadron Leader]] Arif Manzoor.<ref>{{Cite web
| last =Tufail
| first =[[Group Captain]] [[Colonel]] Kaisar
| author-link =
| title =Shahbaz Over Golan:The saga of an intrepid PAF pilot who humbled the Israelis
| work = Defence Journal of Pakistan
| publisher =Pakistan Defence Forces
| date =April 1999
| url =http://www.defencejournal.com/apr99/golan.htm
| doi =
| access-date =2009 }}</ref>

Alvi came to worldwide international notice when he shot down the [[Israel Air Force|IAF]]'s [[Mirage III]]CJ flown by [[Captain (air force)|Captain]] M. Lutz. On 26 April 1974, while on an aerial patrol, the PAF fighter pilot team including, ''Flight Lieutenant Captain Sattar Alvi'', ''Squadron Leader Major Saleem Metla'' and the formation's leader S''quadron Leader Major Arif Manzoor'' had an encounter over the Golan Heights between a [[Mig-21]] of the [[Syrian Air Force]] and two Israeli Mirages.<ref>[http://www.defencejournal.com/apr99/golan.htm Ibid]</ref>

While leading a Mig-21 patrol along the border, Squadron Leader Arif Manzoor was apprised of the presence of two [[Israeli Air Force|Israeli]] [[McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II|Phantom aircraft]] and was cautioned that these could be decoys while two other fast tracks approaching from the opposite direction might be the real threat. The latter turned out to be Mirages and a moment later Alvi, in Arif's formation saw the No 2 Mirage breaking towards him.<ref>{{Cite web
| last =The Global Security
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| title =Syria 1974
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| url =http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/pakistan/air-force-combat.htm
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</ref> All this time, heavy radio jamming by Israeli ground stations was making things difficult but the Pakistani pilots were used to such tactics. He managed to shoot down the jet piloted by Captain Lutz while the wingman quickly disengaged.

==Honours==
After the engagements, Flight Lieutenant Captain Sattar Alvi and Shahbaz formation leader Squadron Leader Major Arif Manzoor were awarded two of Syria's highest decorations for gallantry, the Wisaam Faris and Wisaam Shuja'at in 1973 by the [[President of Syria|President]] of [[Syria]] [[Hafez al-Assad]] in a public ceremony. The [[Government of Pakistan|government]] of Pakistan also awarded each PAF pilot the Sitara-e-Jur'at. The prime minister [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]] personally met each of them and awarded the gallantry awards in public ceremonies.

==Post war==
After the war, Sattar Alvi was promoted to [[Wing Commander (rank)|Wing Commander]] and went on to command PAF's elite Combat Commanders' School and the premier [[PAF Base Rafiqui]]. In 1994, he was promoted to [[Air Commodore]] and commanded the [[Pakistan Aeronautical Complex]] (PAC) until 1998. He retired as an [[Air Commodore]] in 1998 and received an [[honourable discharge]] from the air force.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.defencejournal.com/apr99/golan.htm Air Commodore Sattar Alvi]
* https://web.archive.org/web/20011217224910/http://www.scramble.nl/pk.htm
*[http://www.paf.gov.pk/feats.htm See April 1974]
*http://www.mabaig.co.uk/paf/PAINTINGS/mideast/MidEast.html
* [http://pavocavalry.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/flight-lieutenant-sattar-alvia-master-of-migswho-shot-down-the-israeli-aircraft-flown-by-m-lutz-of-no-5-air-wing-based-at-hatzor-on-26-april-1974/ Fl. Lt. Alvi]
*http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/pakistan/air-force-combat.htm

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