Times of Islamabad

List of 127 Pakistani and foreign nationals being awarded with highest civil awards on Pakistan Day

List of 127 Pakistani and foreign nationals being awarded with highest civil awards on Pakistan Day

ISLAMABAD – President Dr Arif Alvi would confer 127 civil awards oncitizens of Pakistan as well as foreign nationals on March 23 for showingexcellence in their respective fields.

The investiture ceremony of these awards would take place on March 23 – thePakistan Day- a Cabinet Division press release said here.

The ‘Nishan-i-Imtiaz’ would be awarded to Shoaib Sultan Khan in the fieldof public service.

While, four foreign nationals including Seshira Eto of Japan, Xu Shaoshi ofChina and Ismail Kahraman of Turkey would be given ‘Hilali-Pakistan’ award.As many as eight personalities Zaheer Ayub Baig (Punjab), Ghulam Asghar(Islamabad), Prof Dr Tasawar Hayat (Punjab), Wasim Akram (Punjab), WaqarYounis (Punjab), Prof Dr Recep Akdag (Turkey), Dr Michael Jansen (Germany)and Prof Abdul Bari Khan (Sindh) would be decorated with ‘Hilal-i-Imtiaz’award.Whereas, three Chinese nationals including Kong Xuanyou, Wang Xiaotao andHu Xiaolian would get ‘Hilal-i-Quaid-i-Azam’ award.Four personalities including Wajiha Haris (Romania), Mohammad Ilyas Khan(AJ&K), Long Yuxiang (China) and Lin Yi (China) to be decorated with‘Sitara-i-Pakistan.’

The Sitara-i-Shuja’at award would go to Muhammad Idrees Shaheed, ShaheedNawabzada Mir Siraj Raisani (Balochistan), Asad Ali (Sindh ) and ShaheedMairaj Ahmed Umrani (Balochistan).

As many as 34 personalities including Muhammad Arshad (Punjab), Dr. ImtiazAhmed (Sindh), Dr Syed Muhammad Kamran Majeed, Dr Muhammad Zafar-Uz-Zaman(Punjab), Lt. Col.®Manzoor Ahmad(Punjab), Prof Dr Shahid A. Sami, Dr. Pervaiz A. Chaudhary, Dr. Prof. ® M.Lateef Chaudhry, Dr. Inayatullah Padhiar, KaleemullahLashari(Sindh), Muhammad Ahmed Shah (Sindh), Sajjad Ali (Sindh), Munir Hussain(late) (Punjab), Babra Sharif (Punjab), Kamil Khan Mumtaz (Punjab),Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi, Professor SahibzadaHameedullah, Yasir Shah,Shamim Ahmed Sheikh (Canada ), Dr. Asif M. Rehman (USA), Dr. Zia ul Hasan(Pakistan), Steven J. Burian (USA), Dr. James A. Tebbe (USA), Lou Ronghuai(China), Khawaja Masood khtar, Syed Abu Ahmad Akif (Sindh), Pir MuhammadDiwan (Sindh), Muhammad Bashir Farooqui (Sindh), Samar Ali Khan (Sindh),Iqbal Ali Lakhani, Aqeel Karim Dhedhi(Sindh), YounusTabba, Saima Shahbaz Malik and NiloferSaeed (Sindh) wouldreceive ‘Sitara-i-Imtiaz’ award.The President’s award for Pride of Performance would be given to 28 personsincluding Hamid Mahmood (Punjab), Muhammad Saeed Ur Rehman (Punjab),Muhammad Shahid Saleem (Punjab), Arshad Ali (Punjab), Dr. Salma Khanam(Punjab), VaqarAkhtar (KPK), Raza Ellahi (KPK), Waqar Uz Zaman (KPK),Muhammad Hasan (Sindh), Engr. Dr. NasirMahmood Khan (Punjab), Prof. Dr.Sarosh Hashmat Lodhi(Sindh), Prof. Dr. Umbreen Javaid (Punjab), Muhammad Shabbir Jan (Sindh),Iftikhar Ahmad Thakar (Punjab), Ishrat Fatima (Islamabad), Siyani Khatoon(Sindh), Bashir Ahmad (Punjab), Reema Khan (Punjab), NasirAdeeb, Taj Baloch(Sindh ), Sofia Yazdani, Muhammad Arshad Sharif (Punjab), Muhammad InamButt (Punjab), Luqman Ali Afzal, Sana Ullah Ghuman, Muhammad Ashraf Ali(late) (Gilgit-Baltistan), Rasheed Masood Khan (Balochistan) and MuhammadAmanUllah Khan (Punjab).

The ‘Sitara-i-Quaid-i- Azam’ award would be given to Naveed Ahmed Sherwani(USA), while ‘Tamgha-i-Pakistan’ would go to Li Xuedon (China).

As many as 23 personalities including Muhammad Hanif Bashir (Punjab),Imran Aqiq (Punjab), QamarZaman (KP), Muhammad Fayyaz Tipu (KP), SyedNaymatullah (Balochistan ), Syed Ghaib Ali Shah (Gilgit-Baltistan), HajiZahid Khan (KP), Khushal Khan (KP), Brig Rizwan Afzal (KP), Muhammad Younis(Sindh), Sajid Hussain (Balochistan), UmerSajid (Shaheed) (Punjab ), Dr.Khalid Khan (KP), Muhammad NoumanZafar (Punjab ), Wajahat Ullah Afridi(KP), Syed Muhammad Omer MobeenJillani (Shaheed) (Punjab), Sub.Maj (Rtd).Allah Ditta (Shaheed) (Punjab ), Muhammad Iqbal (Punjab), Syed Fawad Ali(Late) (KP), Muhib Khan (late) (KP), Syed Shahrukh Haider Zaidi(Islamabad), SaimShafait (Late) (AJ&K) and Akram Khan (Shaheed) (Punjab)would receive Tamgha-i-Shuja’at award.

Likewise, as many as 17 personalities Muhammad Yousaf Gondal (Punjab),Rana Muhammad Zaeem (Punjab), Dr. MazharIqbal (Punjab), Dr. Shahzad Alam(Punjab), Dr. Uzma Saleem (Gilgit-Baltistan), Dr. Ikram Ali Malik(Islamabad), Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad (KP), Prof. Dr. Rukhsana Wamiq Zuberi(Sindh), Syed Sabihuddin Rehmani (Sindh), Syed Ali Abbas (Sindh), MuhammadRafique Shad (Balochistan), Khawaja Safar Ali(KP), Mehwish Hayat (Sindh),Sardar Ali Takkar (KP), Akhtar Gul (KP), Flt. Lt. ® Muhammad SiddiqueSheikh, (Punjab) and Malik Amin Aslam Khan (KP) to be decorated with‘Tamgha-i-Imtiaz’ award.