ISLAMABAD, March 29: Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani ON Saturday conferred civil and military awards on army officers and personnel at an investiture ceremony held at Army Auditorium.

A total of 113 awards, including one Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Civil), 101 Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Military), three Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (Civil) and eight UN medals were conferred during the ceremony.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has awarded UN medals to eight Pakistan Army personnel who embraced martyrdom while performing peacekeeping duties in different UN missions last year.

A large number of senior military officials and relatives of awardees attended the ceremony.

Maj-Gen Mian Nadeem Ijaz Ahmed has been awarded with Sitara- i-Imtiaz (Civil).

Those who have been awarded Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Military) are Maj-Gen Sohail Shafqat, Brig Mohammad Shahid, Brig Qaiser Hameed Malik, Brig Fazalur Rehman, Brig Chaudhry Mohammad Rafique, Brig Abdul Ghafoor, Brig Tahir Mahmood Zahid, Brig Shahid Hamid, Brig Maqbool Ahmad, Brig Shaukat Ali, Brig Syed Mohammad Jamil, Brig Shahir Yar Ashraf, Brig Mohammad Mansur Aslam, Brig Abdul Razzaq, Brig Tanveer Ullah Khan, Brig Saeed Ahmad Khan, Brig Nisar Ahmad, Brig Tughral Yamin, Brig Farooq Ahmad Mir, Brig Abdul Hamid, Brig Wajahat Ahmad Chaudhary, Brig Javed Ahmed, Brig Ifzal Ahmad Chohan, Brig Pervaiz Sarwar, Brig Tayyab Akram, Brig Abdul Majeed, Brig Mohammad Jan, Brig Shahid Pervez Cheema, Brig Ahmad Ghias Nadim, Brig Khalid Nazir, Brig Nisar Ahmed, Brig Pervez Khalid, Brig Sharaf Saifoor Gul Kiani, Brig Mohammad Javed Anwar, Brig Sajid Hussain Rizvi, Brig Ikramur Rahman, Brig Babar Baig Barlas, Brig Mohammad Aslam, Brig Akhtar Javed Warraich, Brig Iftikharul Haq, Brig Shaukat Yaqub Malik, Brig Sheikh Mohammad Tahir, Brig Jamal Zia, Brig Shahid Ahmad, Brig Mohammad Faheem Khawar, Brig Tariq Sher, Brig Agha Ali Raza Qizilbash, Brig Zuhr Khan, Brig Mohammad Iftikhar Mansoor, Brig Munir Ahmed, Brig Arjmand Iqbal Janjua, Brig Mohammad Javed Iqbal, Brig Ghazanfar Ali, Brig Mukhtar Hussain, Brig Akhtar Nawaz Janjua, Brig Tahirul Mulk Kahlon, Brig Mohammad Zahir Khan, Brig Nadir Mir, Brig Mohammad Asif Alvi, Brig Jawed Ashraf Bajwa, Brig Zahir Shah, Brig Zafar Ali, Brig Munawar Hayat Khan Niazi, Brig Khawar Awais Butt, Brig Tariq Aslam, Brig Simeen Ber Rehman, Brig Mohammad Arif, Brig (Mrs) Gul-e-Rana, Brig Anwarul Islam, Brig Liaqat Ali Minhas, Brig Sohail Azad Kayani, Brig Amtul Hafeez, Col Mohammad Asif Masood Nazami, Col Ghulam Sarwar, Col Imtiaz Ghani Bhatti, Col Mateen Arif, Col Khalil Taher, Col Saleem Zaman, Col Ehsan Ullah, Col Arshad Mahboob Khan, Col Ahmad Javed, Col Tafseer Ahmad, Col Abdul Jabbar, Col Syed Najam Ul Hasan Rizvi, Col Arshad Saeed Kundi, Col Mohammad Qasim, Col Rao Mohammad Tariq Aziz, Col Rashid Amin, Col Afzal Niaz, Col Abdul Qadir, Col Mohammad Ashfaq Afridi, Col Syed Mohsin Jalil, Col Abrar Daud Chaudhary, Col Mohammad Zameer Khan, Col Mohammad Khalid Khan, Col Basharat Aman, Col Anwarul Haq, Col Zahid Iqbal, Col Azhar Hussain, Col Azmat Ali and Col Innayat Ullah Arain.

Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (Civil) has been awarded to Maj Mohammad Aslam, Naib Subedar Abdul Khaliq and Lance Havildar Nazir Hussain Shah.

UN medal has been awarded to Subedar Noorul Samad (Shaheed), Havildar Mohammad Sadiq (Shaheed), Havildar Nazir Ahmed (Shaheed), Havildar Hafiz Mohammad Khan (Shaheed), Havildar Zafar Iqbal (Shaheed), Naik Nusrat Mehmood (Shaheed), Sepoy Amir Mukhtar (Shaheed) and Sepoy Hayat Ullah (Shaheed).