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Islamabad, March 23, 2017: President Mamnoon Hussain has conferred 46 Military and 50 Civil Awards upon various personalities from different walks of life for their meritorious services in different fields on the occasion of Day in a special Investiture Ceremony held at the Aiwan-e-Sadr on Thursday. The awards in Military categories included Hilal-i-Imtiaz (Military) HI (M) (36) and Sitara-i- Basalat (Military) SBt (10). The Awards in Civil categories included Hilal-i-Shuja’at (1), Hilal-i-Imtiaz (3),Sitara-i-Pakistan (1), Sitara-i-Shuja’at (1), Sitara-i-Imtiaz (9), President’s Award for Pride of Performance (6), Tamgha-i-Pakistan (1), Tamgha-i-Shuja’at (16), Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (11) and Tamgha-i-Khidmat (1). The recipients of National Awards (Civil) also included 11 foreign nationals from Norway, Turkey, Italy, China, UK, Canada and Sri Lanka. The investiture ceremony was attended by Ministers, parliamentarians, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Zubair Mehmood Hayat, Services Chiefs, diplomats, high civil and military officials, and people belonging to different walks of life. Following are the recipients of Military and Civil awards:

INVESTITURE CEREMONY – 23RD MARCH, 2017

LIST OF AWARDEES (MILITARY) S. No Rank & Name HILAL-I-IMTIAZ (MILITARY) (38) 1. Muhammad Iqbal 2. Lt Gen Asif Mumtaz Sukhera 3. Air Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan 4. Air Marshal Arshad Mahmood 5. Lt Gen Sher Afgun 6. Lt Gen Qazi Mohammad Ikram Ahmad 7. Lt Gen Bilal Akbar 8. Maj Gen Amjed Iqbal 9. Maj Gen Muhammad Ashfaq 10. Maj Gen Parvez Ahmed 11. Maj Gen Jawad Khaliq Ansari 12. Maj Gen Shahzad Malik 13. Maj Gen Basit Raza 14. Rear Admiral Mukhtar Khan 15. Rear Admiral Muhammad Fayyaz Gilani 16. Rear Admiral Moazzam Ilyas 17. Maj Gen Shahzad Naeem Khan Baloch 18. Maj Gen Syed Shafqat Asghar 19. Maj Gen Muhammad Humayun Saleem 20. Maj Gen Amer Aslam Khan 21. Maj Gen Syed Hasnat Amir Gilani 22. Maj Gen Ali Farhan 23. Maj Gen Syed Anis Akbar 24. Maj Gen Abid Ejaz Kahloon 25. Maj Gen Azhar Saleh Abbasi 26. Maj Gen Majid Ehsan 27. Maj Gen Aamir Abbasi 28. Maj Gen Syed Qaiser Abbas Shah 29. Maj Gen Tariq Qaddus 30. Maj Gen Abdullah Dogar 31. Maj Gen Hamood Uz Zaman Khan 32. Maj Gen Zafar Ul Haq 33. Maj Gen Shahid Mahmood 34. Rear Admiral Muhammad Amjad Khan Niazi 35. Rear Admiral Asif Khaliq 36. Maj Gen Maqbool Ahmad *****

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LIST OF AWARDEES (MILITARY)

S. No Rank & Name SITARA-I-BASALAT (10) 1. Lt Col Faisal Malik (Shaheed) 2. Lt Col Iftikhar Ahmed Jamil (Shaheed) 3. Flight Lt Hussain Muhammad Musaddiq 4. Capt Omer Farooq Suleman (Shaheed) 5. Capt Jawad Ahmed 6. Hav Muhammad Zia (Shaheed) 7. Nk Abdul Hameed 8. Sep Hussain Ali (Shaheed) 9. Sep Muhammad Shabir (Shaheed) 10. Sep Qadeer Ahmed (Shaheed)

LIST OF AWARDEES (CIVIL) - 49 S.No Name of Awardees I. HILAL-I-SHUJA’AT 1. Mr. Muhammad Tahir Rai, II. HILAL-I-IMTIAZ 2. Prof. Dr. Muhammad Ashraf, 3. Prof. Dr. Wasim Ahmad, Islamabad 4. Mr. Tariq Ahmad, III. SITARA-I-PAKISTAN 5. Mrs. Embjorg Holger Larsen, Next of Kin (Spouse) of H.E. Mr. Leif Holger Larsen (late), Royal Embassy of Norway, Islamabad IV. SITARA-I-SHUJA’AT 6. Brigadier Khalid Farid, V. SITARA-I-IMTIAZ 7. Mr. Adil Shabbir Kerai, Next of Kin (Nephew) of Mr. Habib Fida

Ali (late), Karachi 8. Prof. Dr. Syed Ather Enam, Karachi 9. Mr. Mohsin Raza, Lahore 10. Mr. Farhan Rais Khan, Son On behalf of Ustad Rais Khan, Karachi. 11. Prof. Dr. Halil Toker, Turkey 12. Dr. Luca Maria Olivieri, Italy 13. Mr. Yang Wei, China 14. Mr. Mushtaq Kassim Chhapra, Karachi 15. Mr. Raees Ahmed VI. PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR PRIDE OF PERFORMANCE 16. Dr. Khalid Sharif, U.K. 17. Prof. Dr. Muhammad Qasim Bughio, Islamabad 18. Mr. Sarfraz Mahmood alias Sarfraz Shahid, Islamabad 19.