Three days before the year turned, Pakistan lost another son. While the country counted down to a new year — with hope, with resolutions, with the ordinary optimism of fresh beginnings — Major Adeel Zaman embraced shahadat in the line of duty as an officer of the Pakistan Army. The date was 29 December 2025. His name was entered into the 2025 Shuhada Roll, among the last entries of the year’s long and solemn list.
There is a particular poignancy in a sacrifice made at the year’s end. The nation was looking forward; he was looking at his duty. The celebrations would go on — and they should, for that is what he was defending: the right of millions to greet a new year in peace. But the turning of the year should also turn our thoughts backward, to the men whose sacrifice made the peace possible.
As the Year Turned
On 29 December 2025, Major Adeel Zaman embraced shahadat in the line of duty while serving as an officer of the Pakistan Army. That date is now fixed in the 2025 Shuhada Roll — the year-end compilation of the nation’s fallen, published as a tribute by the Pak Military Things page. Every entry on the roll marks a uniformed son of Pakistan who placed himself between danger and his homeland, and his name holds its rightful place among them — near the very end of the year’s account.
A major is a seasoned officer, trusted with command and with lives. Major Adeel Zaman had given years of service before that December day. And as the old year ran out, he gave the last thing he had to give — everything — so that the new year could dawn in safety for the nation he served.
The 2025 Shuhada Roll
Year-end rolls of martyrs are among the oldest traditions of remembrance: a single page on which a year’s sacrifice is written down together, so that the nation can see, all at once, what its freedom cost. The 2025 Shuhada Roll, carried by the Pak Military Things page, performs that duty for the Pakistan Army’s fallen of 2025.
Pak Military Things 2025 Shuhada Roll: Maj Adeel Zaman Shaheed, embraced shahadat on 2025-12-29. Listed in the page’s year-end 2025 martyrs tribute.
His entry stands near the close of the year’s ledger — a reminder that the price of the nation’s peace was being paid until the very last days of December, and that the watch never ended, not even as the year did.
The Anniversary of Shahadat
On 29 December of every year, the calendar returns to the date of Major Adeel Zaman’s shahadat — just as the nation prepares to greet another new year. Anniversaries like this give a shape to remembrance: a fixed point at which families, comrades, and fellow citizens pause together, even amid the year’s-end bustle. The 2025 Shuhada Roll preserves his name in print; the anniversary preserves him in the hearts of those who loved him and in the conscience of the country he served.
When the countdown begins each December, let it begin with remembrance: of the major who fell three days before the year turned, and of every name on the roll that made the new year possible.
Why Nations Remember
There is a particular debt that nations owe to the families of their martyrs, and it can never be fully repaid — only acknowledged, again and again. Behind the name of Major Adeel Zaman is a household that learned to live with an absence, and a set of comrades who learned to soldier on with one fewer beside them. To remember him is to remember them too: the ones who bore the heaviest cost of his courage.
To read the 2025 Shuhada Roll from beginning to end is to understand something essential about Pakistan: that its peace was never free, and that the bill was paid — until the very last days of the year — by men like Major Adeel Zaman Shaheed. Every name on that roll is a receipt, and every tribute is the nation’s way of saying the payment was seen, honoured, and will never be forgotten.
Rest in peace, Major Adeel Zaman Shaheed. You stood your post until the year’s end, and the new year dawned in the safety you secured. On every anniversary of your shahadat, Pakistan will remember — and it will stand with your family, as you once stood for it.
