RAWALPINDI, Aug 13: The president of Pakistan has conferred awards in the Order of Imtiaz (Military) on Independence Day to the officers of the armed forces:

HILAL-I-IMTIAZ (Military): Maj-Gen Mohammad Asaad, Maj-Gen Ghulam Haider, Maj-Gen Shujat Zamir Dr, Maj-Gen Mohammad Tariq Masood, Maj-Gen Moshin Kamal, Maj-Gen Mohammad Asghar, Maj-Gen Jamil Haider, Maj-Gen Hussain Mehdi, Maj-Gen Mohammad Saleem, Maj-Gen Nadeem Taj, Maj-Gen Asit Akhtar, Maj-Gen Mohammad Rehan Burney, Maj-Gen Shafique Ahmed Kayani.

Navy: Rear Admiral Syed Afzal and Rear Admiral Ahsanul Haq Chaudhry,

Air Force: AVM Maqbool Ali Shah and AVM Ayaz Mahmood.

SITARA-I-IMTIAZ (MILITARY):

Army: Brig Jamshed Riaz, Brig Najeeb Tariq, Brig Mohammad Pervez Akbar, Brig Ahmad Khan Awan, Brig Abdul Waheed, Brig Zawar Hussain Shah, Brig Liaqat Rashid, Brig Mohammad Tahir Mukhtar, Brig Mohammad Ali Khan, Brig Samson Simon Sharaf, Brig Ali Mansoob Raza, Brig Rahat Khan, Brig Mohammad Tahir Baig, Brig Mohammad Farooq, Brig Mohammad Khan, Brig Khalid Khurshid, Brig Mushtaq Ahmed Khan, Brig Mohammad Anwar Khan, Brig Mohammad Yunis, Brig Syed Mazhar Abbas Kazmi, Brig Abdul Sattar Niazi, Brig Amjad Pervez Kiyani, Brig Jawaid Rashid Dar, Brig Shabbir Hussian, Brig Muhammad Masood, Brig Muhammad Akhtar, Brig Naveed Rahman, Brig Arif Masood, Brig Muhammad Ikram Ullah, Brig Muhammad Ashraf Siddiqi, Brig Amjad Perwaz, Brig Khalid Nazir Butt, Brig Habib Anwar, Brig Saadat Ali Khan, Brig Mrs Safia Arshad, Col Ahmed Naveed Siddiqi, Col Tariqur Rahman, Col Sayed Ali, Col Ahmed Khan Baloch, Col Nadeem Sarwar, Col Atiquz Zaman Kayani, Col Tariq Noor, Col Muhammad Afzal, Col Hafiz Sibghatullah Fazil, Col Ahmed Najib Khan, Col Abdul Rauf Khan, Col Ch Fazal Hussain, Col Nauman Siddiqi, Col Jehangir Akhtar, Col Mrs Riffat Javed.

NAVY: Commodore Saleem Akhtar, Commodore Mumtaz Ali Khan, Commodore Mohammad Shafiq, Commodore Naveed Ahmed, Commodore Mohammad Zakaullah, Commodore Tariq Waheed and Commodore M. Javaid Ghani.

AIR FORCE: AVM Haifzatullah Khan, AVM Rao Qamar Suleman, Air Commodore S. Adeeb Niazi, Air Commodore Asim Adnan, Group Capt Zaheer Mirza, Group Capt Amir Liaquat Ali, Group Capt Sher Afghan, Group Capt Furqan Rasheed, Group Capt Nayab Akhtar Khan, Group Capt Ijaz Mahmood Malik, Group Capt Akhtar Mahmood, Group Capt Shahid Jamil Hashmi and Group Capt Sajid Mumtaz.

TAMGHA-I-IMTIAZ (MILITARY):

ARMY: Lt Col Mohammad Aslam, Lt Col Humayun Zafar, Lt Col Azhar Aziz Kayani, Lt Col Mohammad Athar Khan, Lt Col Mohammad Khizar Ilyas, Lt Col Abid Hussain, Lt Col Iftikhar Ahmad, Lt Col Zia Masood Ahmad Toor, Lt Col Mohammad Maroof, Lt Col Khalid Munir, Lt Col Nabil Azmat, Lt Col Mohammad Khalid Mahmood, Lt Col Mohammad Naeem Anwar, Lt Col Tariq Mahmood Randhawa, Lt Col Asad Ali Shah, Lt Col Sarfraz Khan, Lt Col Hassan Khawar Mahmood, Lt Col Shoukat Hussain, Lt Col Nauman Ahmad Sayal, Lt Col Asad Pervez, Lt Col Sajid Aziz Aslam, Col Qaisar Waqar, Lt Col Mohammad Mohsin Mahmood, Lt Col Saif Haider Kayani, Lt Col Syed Tanveer Ahmed Taqvi, Lt Col Amir Mahmood Shah, Lt Col Mohammad Afzal Bhatti, Lt Col Javed Hassan Khattak, Lt Col Sohail Iqbal, Lt Col Ahmad Khan Joiya, Lt Col Jan Firdous, Lt Col Aurangzeb, Lt Col Iftikhar Ahmad, Lt Col Mian Mahmood Yusuf, Lt Col Babar Yasin, Lt Col Hamid Ghani Anjum, Lt Col Jamil Akhtar Khan, Lt Col Sadiq Ali Bangash, Lt Col Omer Akram, Lt Col Ijaz Hussain, Lt Col Amir Tasir Ahmed Khan, Lt Col Mukhtar Hussain, Lt Col Mohammad Yaqub, Lt Col Mohammad Hafeez, Lt Col Rahmet Ali, Lt Col Naeem Akhtar Qureshi, Lt Col Mohammad Tayyib Khan, Lt Col Ghulam Haider Qureshi, Lt Col Ali Sajid, Lt Col Tariq Salam Chohan, Lt Col Zahoor Ul Haq, Lt Col Ghulam Mujtaba G.Abbasi, Lt Col Qazi Ahsan Azeem, Lt Col Mumtaz Ahmad Ahmadani, Lt Col Daood Rashad, Lt Col Miss Nighat Firdous, Maj Qamar Ul Haq, Maj Abdul Aziz Khan, Maj Mohammad Nadeem Siddiqui, Maj Mohammad Azhar Shafique, Maj Assali Mueen, Maj Mohammad Shahid Ghauri, Maj Shamshad Hussain Dar, Maj Shokat Hayat Siddiqui, Maj Bakhtawar Jan, Maj Abdul Naveed Khan Burki, Maj Syed Shabbir Hussain Shah, Maj Ikramul Haq, Maj Rashid Mohsin, Maj Abdul Karim Khan, Maj Abid Ali, Maj Qasim Ali Rizvi, Maj Javid Sadiq, Maj Yaseen Rehman, Maj Amjad Ali, Maj Mohammad Naseem, Maj Zahid Latif Khan, Maj Noor Sultan, Maj Mohammad Zafar Ali, Maj Miss Fakhar Tabsum,

NAVY: Commander Syed Nadir Raza Bilgrami, Commander Tariq Ali, Commander Khalid Mohammad Amin, Lt Commander Aftab Khan, Lt Commander Habibur Rehman, Lt Commander Khalid Riaz and Lt Commander Syed Hussain Haider Naqvi.

Air Force: Wing Comd Shuaib Akbar Khan, Wing Comd Mohammad Khalid Dabir, Wind Comd Manochehr Azad, Wing Comd Javed Saeed, Wing Comd Mohammad Haseeb Paracha, Wing Comd Sikandar Bilal Mir, Wing Comd Noor Abbas, Wing Comd Mohammad Wakeel Qureshi, Wing Comd Malik Mumtaz Awan, Wing Comd Syed Furqan Ahmad Zaidi, Wing Comd Shah Masroor Hussain and Wing Comd Mohammad Arshad.

Police officials: The president has conferred 12 awards of Quaid-i-Azam Police Medals and 34 awards of President’s Police Medals for gallantry to 46 police officials. Of the 12 QPMs, 10 have been awarded posthumously to officials of constables to sub-inspectors ranks.

Quaid-i-Azam Police Medals: Punjab: Mohammad Jehangir Khan, Mohammad Ehsanul Waheed, Mohammad Sharif, Tahir Mehmood, Constable, Mohammad Ramzan, Constable, and Zahoor Hussain, Constable.

President’s Police Medals: Mohammad Altaf Qamar, DIG, Raja Munawar Hussain, SP, Mohammad Inkasar Khan, ASP, Abdul Rehman Shah, DSP, Mirza Mohammad Amir Baig, DSP, Habib Ahmed Khan, DSP, Ali Akbar, Inspector, Mohammad Zahid Majeed, Inspector, Mohammad Iqbal Chandia, Inspector, Mohammad Ashraf, SI, Mohammad Boota, SI, Mohammad Alamgir, SI, Mohammad Shafique, ASI, Mohammad Siddique, Head Constable, Mohammad Ismail, Head Constable, Mohammad Arshad, Head Constable, Abdul Ghaffar, Constable, Zafar Hussain, Constable, Mohammad Ismail, Constable, Mohammad Sarwar, Constable, Bashir Hussain, Constable, Mohammad Usman, Constable.

Sindh: Sanaullah Abbasi, SSP and Imran Shaukat, ASP,

NWFP: Saifur Rehman, Constable, Khaista Khan, ASI, Attaullah Khan Wazir, DIG, Syed Akhtar Ali Shah, SSP, Mohammad Waqas Nazir, ASP, Shaukat Ali Khan, DSP, Syed Abdul Kalam, DSP, Jehangir Khan, Inspector, Gohar Shah, Head Constable,

Balochistan: Manzoor Ahmed Shahwani, SI, Gul Mohammad, Head Constable, Jamil Ahmed, Constable, Ghulam Mehmood Dogar, SP, Tajamul Shah, DSP, Mahewal Khan, SI, and Ghulam Haider, Constable.—APP

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