ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan government has announced to bestow a prestigiouscivil award on London Mayor Sadiq Khan in recognition of his services tostrengthen relationship between Pakistan and the United Kingdom.
Khan, who is serving as mayor of London for the second consecutive termsince 2016, will be presented the Sitara-e-Pakistan on the eve ofPakistan’s Independence Day during a ceremony at the Pakistan HighCommission.
The Pakistan origin politician was re-elected as mayor in 2021 after hedefeated Conservative rival Shaun Bailey.
Let it be known that the 50-year-old, before coming into mainstreampolitics, is a former human rights lawyer and brought up on a London publichousing complex.
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Sadiq Khan’s parents migrated to the UK in 1968 and his father had beenworked as a bus driver.
