President Arif Alvi Confers Military, Civil Awards To Different Personalities
Fakhir Rizvi Published March 23, 2019 | 10:05 PM
Pakistan President Arif Alvi conferred awards and medals on several civil and military personalities for their outstanding achievement in their respective fields at an investiture ceremony organised at Aiwan-e-Sadr in Islamabad on Pakistan Day, 2019 Saturday
ISLAMABAD (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / NNI - 23rd March, 2019) Pakistan President Arif Alvi conferred awards and medals on several civil and military personalities for their outstanding achievement in their respective fields at an investiture ceremony organised at Aiwan-e-Sadr in Islamabad on Pakistan Day, 2019 Saturday.According to details, the president decorated 171 personalities, including military officers, civilians and Pakistanis living abroad.President Arif Alvi bestowed Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Crescent of Excellence) on several senior officers of Pakistan Armed Forces, including Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (JCSC) General Zubair Mahmood Hayat, Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (DG-ISPR) Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, Lt Gen Zahid Hamid, Air Marshal Syed Nauman Ali, Maj Gen Tahir Mukhtar, Maj Gen Naeem Taqi, Maj Gen Arshad Mehmood, Maj Gen Saleem Ahmad Khan, Maj Gen Tariq Mehmood, Maj Gen Iftikhar Ahmad, Maj Gen Sohail Aziz, Maj Gen Rahat Abbas, Maj Gen Nauman Ahmad, Rear Admiral Syed Asad Kareem, Air Vice-Marshal Nadeem Tariq, Air Vice-Marshal Shahab, Air Marshal Muhammad Khalid, Air Vice-Marshal Salman, Maj Gen Azhar Abbas, Maj Gen Amjad Ahmad, Maj Gen Rizwan Afzal, Maj Gen Faiz Hameed, Rear Admiral Zain Zulfiqar, Rear Admiral Faisal Rasool Lodhi, Rear Admiral Zahid Ilyas, Rear Admiral Muhammad Zubair Shafiq, Maj Gen Nadeem Ahmad Anjum, Maj Gen Saeed Akhtar, Maj Gen Khalid Javed, Maj Gen Khalid Zia, Maj Gen Muhammad Amir, Maj Gen Saeed Ahmad Nagra, Maj Gen Amjad Ali Khan Khattak, Maj Gen Azhar Rasheed, Maj Gen Ali Amir Awan, Maj Gen Abid Latif Khan, Maj Gen Muhammad Saeed, Maj Gen Akhtar Nawaz, Maj Gen Sardar Hassan, Maj Gen Usman Haq, Maj Gen Tariq Zameer, Rear Admiral Muhammad Shafiq, Air Vice-Marshal Imran Khalid, and Maj Gen Liaquat Ali.Besides, Colonel Sohail Abid (Shaheed), Major Ali Salman Nasir (Shaheed), Captain Junaid Hafeez (Shaheed), Sobaidar Shaukat Khan (Shaheed), Lt Arsalan Alam (Shaheed), Captain Shahid Farooq Rana (Shaheed), Sipahi Fateh-Ullah (Shaheed), Sipahi Syed Sabtain Hyder (Shaheed), Sipahi Kamran Afzal (Shaheed), Sipahi Kamran Afzal (Shaheed), Sipahi Yahya Khan (Shaheed), Sipahi Aftab Ahmad Khan (Shaheed), Sipahi Kamran Afzal (Shaheed), Mirza Shahzeb Mughal (Shaheed), and Muhammad Aslam (Shaheed) were honoured with the prestigious Sitara-e-Basalat' (military award) for their sacrifices to the motherland.Later, the president bestowed civil award of Nishan-e-Imtiaz' on Nawabzada Mir Siraj Khan, Sadar-udin Hashwani, Waseem Akram and Waqar Younis.Other influential persons included Shoaib Sultan, Dr Inayat Ullah, Atta-Ullah Isa Khelvi, Shameem Ahmad Sheikh, Dr Asif M Rehman, Zaheer Ayub Beg, Ghulam Asghar and Prof Dr Tasawar Hilal.
Sitara-e-Shujat' was presented to Nawabzada Mir Siraj Khan (late) and Muhammad Idrees (Shaheed).Hilal-e-Imtiaz was honoured to Michael Janson and Dr Abdul Bari, Wajeeha Haris from Romania, and Muhammad Ilyas Khan from Azad Kashmir were given the award of Sitara-e-Pakistan'.A ceremony to confer civil awards to fifteen personalities, who has demonstrated outstanding performance in their field held at Governor House in Karachi this evening.A simple but impressive Civil Award giving ceremony was held at the Governor's House in Lahore this afternoon on the occasion of the Pakistan Day.The Governor of the Punjab, Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar was the chief guest.
He conferred fourteen civil awards to the various personalities for their meritorious cervices in the different fields.Awards were given in the fields of education, science, literature, arts, music, social service and civil service.
Total fourteen civil awards were conferred in the ceremony.Six were Sitara-e-Imtiaz and six were President's Awards for Pride of Performance. Likewise, two personalities were presented Tamgha-e-Imtiaz.Governor Sindh Imran Ismail gave away sitar-e-Imtiaz award to Professor Dr.
Shahid A. Samee, Khaleem Lashari, Muhammad Ahmed Shah, Sajjad Ali, Muhammad Bashir Farooqui, Iqbal Ali Lakhani and Muhammad Younis Tabba, whereas Presidential award for pride of performance was conferred to Dr.
Sarosh Hashmat Lodhi, Muhammad Shabbir Jan, Siani Khatoon, Taj Baloch and Sofia Yazdia.Tamagha-e-Imtiaz award was given to Professor Ruxana Wamiq Zuberi, Syed Sabeehuddin Rehmani and Syed Abbas Ali Shah for their outstanding performance in their field.Imran Ismail on the occasion congratulated those received awards today and said this award was their right as they were expert in their field.The main function in connection with Pakistan Day was held in Peshawar today.
Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Shah Farman was chief guest on the occasion. He gave awards to distinguished personalities.Tamgha-e-Imtiaz was given to Vice Chancellor Abbottabad University Professor Dr.
Iftikhar Ahmad for his extraordinary services in the field of education.Akhtar Gul was awarded Tamgha-e-Imtiaz for his exemplary services in security and law and order maintenance.Khwaja Safar Ali was awarded Tamgha-e-Imtiaz for his services in Handicrafts Art. Cricketer Yasir Shah was Awarded Sitara-e-Imtiaz for his extraordinary performance in cricket. NNI
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