Tufail Mohammad and Malcolm Cecil

Mohammad was posthumously awarded the Nishan-e-Haider, Pakistan's highest military award and is the only person to win the award for an action outside the Indo-Pakistan Wars.

In 1958, Major Tufail Muhammed was posted to East Pakistan as company commander of a battalion of East Pakistan Rifles (a paramilitary force for border security). During his command, Indian troops violating international borders captured a village in the area of Laskhmipur of East Pakistan. On 7 August 1958 Major Tufail launched an assault, to force withdrawal of Indian troops from the village. He divided his men into three groups and attacked the Indian troops during the hours of darkness. The groups were able to reach the enemy without being detected but as the firefight started, the group came under heavy fire and Major Tufail received three bullets in his stomach. Despite being shot in stomach, he kept moving and was able to silence the incoming fire from machine gun. By tactically using grenades, Major Tufail was able to destroy key enemy posts. When he saw an enemy commander inflicting heavy casualties to his men he crawled towards enemy posting and engaged the enemy in hand-to-hand battle which resulted in the killing of a commander of the Indian Army. He killed him by hitting him with his steel helmet on the face. He continued the operation with his men which resulted in the withdrawal of Indian forces. Despite being heavily injured, he called his junior officer “I have completed my duty; the enemy is on the run.” He was rushed to hospital but died the same day.

Mohammad was buried with full military honours in his native city Burewala Punjab. His native village has been named after him and is now known as Tufailabad or Tufail Abad. Awards and decorations

Malcolm Cecil and Tufail Mohammad

Born in London, Cecil was a founding member of the UK's leading jazz quintet of the late 1950s, The Jazz Couriers, before going on to join a number of British jazz combos led by Dick Morrissey, Tony Crombie and Ronnie Scott in the late 50s and early 60s. He later joined Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner to form the original line-up of Blues Incorporated.

He later joined Robert Margouleff to form the duo TONTO's Expanding Head Band, a project based around a unique combination of synthesizers which led to them collaborating on and co-producing several of Stevie Wonder's Grammy-winning albums of the early 70s.

Contents 1 TONTO's Expanding Head Band 2 Discography 2.1 With TONTO's Expanding Headband 2.2 With the Isley Bros 2.3 Gil Scott-Heron 3 Production, etc. 3.1 With Stevie Wonder 3.2 Various 4 References 5 External links

TONTO's Expanding Head Band

With Robert Margouleff, he formed the duo TONTO's Expanding Head Band, a project based around synthesizers. The duo were closely associated with Stevie Wonder's multiple Grammy Award winning Talking Book (1972), sharing the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical award as well as collaborating on and co-producing classic Wonder albums such as Music of My Mind, Innervisions and Fulfillingness' First Finale.

Cecil is credited, with Margouleff, as engineer for the Stevie Wonder produced album Perfect Angel (1974), by Minnie Riperton.

Their unique sound made them highly sought-after and they went on to collaborate with, amongst others, Quincy Jones, Bobby Womack, The Isley Brothers, Billy Preston, Gil Scott-Heron, Weather Report, Stephen Stills, The Doobie Brothers, Dave Mason, Little Feat, Joan Baez and Steve Hillage. Discography

(see also Robert Margouleff Discography Margouleff and Cecil (together) Discography) As leader/co-leader 1981 Radiance With TONTO's Expanding Headband 1971: Zero Time 1972: It's About Time As sideman 1961: It’s Morrissey, Man! – Dick Morrissey Quartet 1961: The Tony Crombie Orchestra 1961: Let's Take Five – Emcee Five 1962: Bebop from the East Coast – Emcee Five 1971: ...Where Would I Be? – Jim Hall 1977: Motivation Radio – Steve Hillage 1996: A Jazzy Christmas – Bill Augustine 2009: A Jazzy Christmas 2 – Bill Augustine With the Isley Bros 1973: 3+3 1974: Live It Up 1975: The Heat Is On 1976: Harvest for the World Gil Scott-Heron 1978: Secrets (with Brian Jackson) 1980: Real Eyes 1981: Reflections 1982: Moving Target Shut 'Um Down; Angel Dust (singles) 1994: Spirits 2011: We're New Here (with Jamie xx) Production, etc.

As producer, programmer, and/or engineer: With Stevie Wonder 1972: Music of My Mind 1972: Talking Book 1973: Innervisions 1974: Fulfillingness' First Finale 1991: Jungle Fever Various Dave Mason - It's Like You Never Left (1973) Mandrill - Beast From The East (1975) Billy Preston - It's My Pleasure (1975) Blood Donor - Rubber Revolution (1979 – from the album Blood Donor) Savoy Brown - Kings Of Boogie (1989 – recording engineer) Mark Josephson - Dreamstate (1990) Pete Bardens - Watercolours (2002)
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