A Mirage aircraft of the Pakistan Air force crashed on Friday near Sargodha, killing its pilot. “Pakistan Air Force announces with great sorrow and grief that a Mirage fighter aircraft, while on a routine operational training mission, crashed 30 kilometres south east of Sargodha,” said a PAF press release. “The pilot of the aircraft, Wing Commander Azhar Ismael, embraced shahadat (martyrdom),” it added.