25/10/2025
Captain Rohullah Mohmand, after surviving more than 750 engagements, was martyred on 25th October 2016 during the response to the Quetta attack.
Captain Rohullah possessed exceptionally rare skills. He was one of those Pakistan Army officers whose participation in operations ran into the hundreds. When terrorists attacked Bacha Khan University, he was among the commandos who responded.
When militants struck the Christian Colony, Captain Rohullah Mahmand took part in neutralizing the attackers. After the terrorist assault on the Mardan courthouse, he was part of the rescue team.
After Operation Zarb-e-Azb, he was one of the rare young officers of the Pakistan Army who had taken part in over 750 intelligence-based operations (IBOs). It seemed that courting danger was something Captain Rohullah liked - or perhaps he loved to stare death in the face and dare it.
He arrested more than four hundred terrorists and personally eliminated ten. He was due to receive a commendation from the Chief of Army Staff, General Raheel Sharif, but God called him home sooner.
On 25 October 2016, during the Quetta attack, while rescuing police cadets from terrorists, he sensed the presence of a bomber in a dark room. Time was so short that if he had aimed and fired, the bomber would have detonated, and even a missed shot would have triggered the blast.
There were perhaps forty or fifty cadets in that dark room. In an emergency where at any moment the enemy’s bullet could pierce your forehead or a bomber’s jacket could reduce you to shreds, you have less than a moment to decide.
The only way to save the cadets for whom Captain Rohullah had gone was to throw himself onto the su***de bomber before the blast — to absorb the explosion so others would suffer the least harm. One cadet present says that before their eyes Captain Rohullah leapt onto the bomber, and the explosion occurred immediately. He gave his life to save as many as he could.