Tufail Mohammad (Urdu: طفیل محمد; c. 1914 – 7 August 1958) was born in 1914 in Hoshiarpur, Punjab. He was commissioned into the 16th Punjab Regiment in 1943.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).