“Patriotism Runs In Our Blood”: Household Of Colonel Who Led Op With Wing Commander

Vadodara:

As Colonel Sofiya Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh flanked International Secretary Vikram Misri on Wednesday morning throughout the briefing about Operation Sindoor, making a placing picture, her household in Gujarat beamed with satisfaction.

Col Sofiya, who hails from Vadodara metropolis, had stop Ph.D and a instructing profession to change into an Military officer, they stated. Her dad and mom and brother Mohammad Sanjay Qureshi reside within the Tandalja space of the town.

Speaking to reporters at their dwelling, Sanjay stated Col Sofiya was on the verge of ending her PhD when she determined to look past the classroom setting and don the olive-green uniform of the Indian Military.

Sanjay stated his sister was impressed by their grandfather and father, as each had served within the Military.

“You possibly can say that patriotism runs in our blood. After ending faculty, Sofiya did BSc after which MSc in Biochemistry from MS College in Vadodara, as she wished to change into a professor,” Sanjay instructed reporters.

He was accompanied by his father Tajuddin Qureshi, mom Hanima and daughter Zara.

“My sister joined the varsity as an assistant lecturer whereas concurrently pursuing Ph.D in the identical topic as she wished to change into a professor. In the meantime, she was chosen within the Indian Military via the Brief Service Fee (SSC) and determined to stop her Ph.D and instructing profession to affix the forces,” he stated.

He stated that all the household is pleased with her achievement.

Calling his sister a job mannequin for Zara, Sanjay stated his teenage daughter has additionally made up her thoughts to affix the Military.

Col Sofiya’s father Tajuddin Qureshi stated his household is anxious solely in regards to the nation.

“I’m pleased with my daughter. My household has at all times adopted the precept of ‘Vayam Rashtre Jagrayam’ (we’ll hold the nation awake and alive). We’re Indian first, and Muslim afterwards. We’re involved solely about our nation,” he stated.

Through the briefing, Col Sofiya and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh flanked International Secretary Vikram Misri, who delivered the opening assertion from the federal government, hours after the Indian armed forces hit 9 terror targets in Pakistan and PoK, together with the Jaish-e-Mohammad stronghold of Bahawalpur and Lashkar-e-Taiba’s base Muridke.

Qureshi and Singh shared the names and particulars of the websites focused by missiles from 1 am to 1.30 am on the intervening evening of Could 6-7. The army strikes have been carried out beneath Operation Sindoor, two weeks after the bloodbath of 26 civilians in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam.

Later within the day, the Gujarat authorities stated in a launch that Col Sofiya did her masters in 1997 after which joined the Military’s Corps of Alerts. Her husband is an officer within the Mechanised Infantry of the Indian Military, it stated.

“In 2016, Col Sofiya achieved a historic feat as she turned the primary girl officer to guide an Indian army contingent overseas, changing into the one girl commander among the many 18 international locations taking part in ‘Pressure 18’, a multinational army train involving ASEAN Plus international locations,” stated the discharge.

It added that she was deployed in Congo in 2006 throughout a six-year stint with the peacekeeping operations of the United Nations. 

(Apart from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is printed from a syndicated feed.)