ISLAMABAD: (APP) PAF Officers and Airmen conrferred with prestigious military awards
Investiture ceremony was held to confer operational and non-operational Military awards upon officers and airmen of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) for their distinguished services, at Air Headquarters here on Thursday.
Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman, Chief of the Air Staff was chief guest on the occasion, PAF news release stated.
In the Ceremony, 30 Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Military) PAF Officers, 16 Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (Military) and 08 Tamgha-i-Basalat were conferred upon PAF Officers, while 15 Tamgha-i-Khidmat (Military) Class-I were conferred upon PAF JCOs.
These awards are given in recognition of the acts of extreme devotion to duty rendered by the Officers and Airmen of PAF, for positively contributing towards the overall efficiency of the service.
A large number of PAF high ranking officers and personnel attended the ceremony.
List of awardees is:
AWARD OF SITARA-I-IMTIAZ (Military)
Air Vice Marshal (AVM) Salman Ahsan Bokhari, AVM Usaid-Ur-Rehman Usmani, AVM Tameez-Uddin Shakir Qazi, Air Commodore (A/C) Nusrat Javed, A/C Asim Anwar, A/C Syed Arshad Ali Wasti, A/C Mujeeb-Ur-Rehman, A/C Ilyas Sultan, A/C Muhammad Amjad Ali, A/C Muhammad Afzal, A/C Sarfraz Khan, A/C Nadeem Tariq, A/C Agha Khurram Khan, A/C Syed Matloob Hussain, A/C Muhammad Zahoor Faisal, A/C Asad Ikram, A/C Zubair Bin Salam, A/C Nasir Sher Muhammad, A/C Syed Qaswar Abbas Naqvi, A/C Shaukat Zaman, A/C Muhammad Farooq Haider, A/C Adnan Masood Hassan A/C Muhammad Babar Saeed, A/C Shams-Ul-Haq, A/C Syed Mohsin Ali Hussaini, Group Captain (GC) Riaz Ahmed, G/C Mujeeb-Ur-Rehman, G/C Muhammad Tanveer Piracha, G/C Muhammad Ali, and G/C Jamil Nazar.
AWARD OF TAMGHA-I-IMTIAZ (Military)
G/C Ali Khurram Aziz, G/C Taimur Yousaf Khan, G/C Muhammad Asim Rana, G/C Khalid Bin Zabih, G/C Ahmer Raza, G/C Usman Ali Khan Burki, G/C Mahmood Faisal Zafar, G/C Mehr Yar Saqib Niazi, G/C Liaqat Ali Khan, G/C Ahmad Junaid, Wing Commander (W/C) Muhammad Ali, W/C Shaukat Mehmood, W/C Faisal Fazal Muhammad Khan, W/C Talha Ayaz Khan, W/C Muhammad Shoaib and W/C Mirat-Ul-Ain Azizi.
AWARD OF TAMGHA-I-BASALAT (POSTHUMOUS) Squadron Leader (S/L) Umair Elahi (Shaheed), S/L Tanweer Ahmed (Shaheed), F/L Sohaib Rasheed (Shaheed) AWARD OF TAMGHA-I-BASALAT (SERVING) S/L Muhammad Junaid Maqbool Malik, S/L Asim Habib, S/L Tanveer
Anwar, S/L Sohail Imran, S/L Umar Rashid
AWARD OF TAMGHA-I-KHIDMAT (Military) CLASS-I
Flying Officer Muhammad Ejaz, Chief Warrant Officer (CWO) Muhammad Ishaque, CWO Muhammad Ayub, CWO Pervaiz Khan, CWO Muhammad Amjad, CWO Sher Ahmed, Warrant Officer (WO) Jehangir Ahmad, WO Muhammad Alauddin, WO Iftikhar Ahmad, WO Abdul Rauf Siddiqui, WO Muhammad Irfaq Ali, WO Muhammad Khalid, AWO Qamar Nawaz, AWO Qamar Zaman, AWO Tanveer Ahmed.