ISLAMABAD – Pakistani PM Imran Khan to receive highest civilian award fromleading Middle East country Bahrain.
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for Overseas Pakistanis ZulfiqarBukhari revealed that Bahrain will confer its highest civilian award, theKing Hamad Order of the Renaissance, on PM Imran Khan.
*Arab News* reported that PM Khan will receive Bahrain’s highest civilaward, the King Hamad Order of the Renaissance in a special ceremony duringan upcoming visit to the Gulf state.
“Imran Khan is going on an official visit to Bahrain in the mid of Decemberwhere he will be conferred Bahrain’s highest civilian award,” SpecialAssistant to the Prime Minister for Overseas Pakistanis, Bukhari told *ArabNews*.
The special assistant said that the prime minister would receive the awardat a special ceremony to be held during his visit. PM Khan will alsoparticipate in the national day celebration of Bahrain.
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PM Imran would also meet his counterpart Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa andKing Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa during the visit. He will also participate inBahrain’s national day celebrations.
A senior official of the Bahrain government, during his visit to Islamabadin August, had extended an invitation to PM Imran on behalf of the primeminister of the Kingdom of Bahrain.
This will be the first one-on-one meeting of the prime minister withBahrain’s king. PM Imran in a telephonic discussion with the king soonafter Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s revocation of occupiedKashmir’s special status had apprised him about the situation in the valley.
