ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Sunday conferred civil and military honours and awards on citizens and foreign dignitaries for excellence and services in different fields.

The awardees, who also include personnel from the armed forces, will receive their awards and medals on March 23.

The personalities who were honoured include:

Nishan-i-Imtiaz

Public Service: Sartaj Aziz, late Hasil Bazinjo, Raeesul Ahrar, late Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas Khan, late Justice Rana Bhagwan Das

Art: Late Ahmed Ghulam Ali Chagla, late Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum, Muhammad Qavi Khan

Sports: Jahangir Khan

Hilal-i-Pakistan

Services to Pakistan: Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Prince Faisal bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, Engineer Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al-Falih, Sheikh Muhammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, Robin L. Raphel

Hilal-i-Shujaat

Retired Brig Khalid Farid, Brig Faisal Naseer

Hilal-i-Imtiaz

Science, education and engineering: late Dr Khawaja Abdul Hayee, Engineer Prof Ahmed Farooq Bazai, Prof Dr Talat Naseer Pasha, Hakeem Rizwan Hafeez, Dr Raja Ali Raza Anwar

Art: Raees Ahmed, Amjad Islam Amjad.

Journalism: late Ahmad Arif Nizami, Mujibur Rahman Shami and Altaf Hassan Qureshi.

Social services: Late Bilquis Edhi and M. Ramzan Chhipa.

Public Service: Sardar Ahmad Nawaz Sukhera, late Maroof Afzal, Senator M. Talha, Senator Hilalur Rehman

Philanthropy: Dr Gohar Ejaz

Hilal-i- Quaid-i-Azam

Services to Pakistan: Dr James M. Shera

Sitara-i-Pakistan

Services to Pakistan: Lin Songtian, Khalid Mehmood, Cahit Yasar Eren, Raja Najabat Hussain

Sitara-i-Shujaat:

Gallantry: Malik M. Hassan, late Malik Gingray, M.alik Shumail Khan, late Fizza Tariq Malik, Raja Mustafa Ali, M. Afzal Shaikh, Sajid Kiani, Lt Col Shahid Rasool Choudhary, Wajahatullah Afridi

Services to Pakistan: Mansoor Ahmad Khan

Sitar-i-Imtiaz

Services to Pakistan: Professor Dr. Asuman Belen Ozcan, Dr M. Afzal Javed, Zafarullah Khan, Tang M.eng Sheng , Professor Kong Julan

Innovation, science and engineering: Professor Dr Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry, Engineer Javed Qureshi, Dr Abdul Ghani Akram, Ghafoor Ahmad, Dr Suleman Qaiser, Mohsin Fayyaz, Dr M. Aleem M.irza, Dr M. Bilal M.alik, Dr Faizul Hassan, Asif Iqbal, late Humayun Khan, Asif Peer, Dr Saeed Akhtar, Dr M. Sharif Malik M..D., Professor Dr M. Ali, Mahfoozur Rehman

Art : Tauqeer Ahmed Nasir, late Riaz Shahid Late, Fakhr-i-Alam, Hassan Jahangir, late Saghar Siddiqui alias M. Akhtar Late, Aneeq Ahmed, Hasan Manzar, Dr M.oeenud Din Aqeel, late Shama Khalid, late Naseer Turabi, Shakir Shuja Abadi

Sports: Ch Shafay Hussain and Babar Azam

Journalism: late Ziauddin, Javed Choudhry, Nadeem Malik, late Attaur Rehman

Religious scholars: Dr Anees Ahmed, Maulana M. Hanif Jalandhari, Dr Qibla Ayaz, Allama Saqib Raza Mustafai, Abdul Rauf Rufi (Naatkhawan),

Public Service: Waqar Ahmed Malik, Murtaza Mehmood, Imdad ullah Bosal, Moinul Haq, Dr Mohammad Ashraf Tahir

Social Service: Mirza Ishtiaq Baig

President’s Award for Pride of Performance

Science and engineering: Dr Mehboob Ali Sial, Abdul Majid, M. Azam, Ch M. Yousaf, Zulfiqar Ahmed Khan, Naveed Ahmad, Hafiz M. Noshad Ali, M. Javed Siddique, Dr Humayun Qureshi, Raheem Sanaullah Ch, Tariq Maqbool, retired Col M. Amin, Amad Ahmad, M. Mehboob, Har­oon Ikram, M. Rahman, Dr Maqsood, Dr Aisha Siddiqa

Art: Parveen alias Sangeeta, Abdul Aziz Khan, M. Hafeez Tahir, Qadir Ali Shaggan, Anwar Hussain, Gul Zari, Arooj Aftab, Altaf Hussain Tafu Khan, Ustad Abdullah Khan, Nargis Shaheen, Anjum Shaheen alias Anjuman, Amanullah Nasir, Syed Afzal Ahmad, Bushra Farrukh, Taskeen Zafar, Sherdad Khan, Anjum Ayaz, R.M. Naeem, Sain Dad, M. Javed, Qamar Sultan, Syed Shamoon Ashraf Hashmi, Obaidullah Darwesh Durrani, Dr Ghulam Hassan Hassanu, Rana Fazal Hussain, Professor Dr M. Ashraf Shaheen Qaiserani, late Professor Jehanzeb Niaz Khan, late Jamshid Khan Dukhi, Farhat Abbas Shah

Sports: Arshad Nadeem, Sirbaz Khan, Shahida, Amina Wali, late Abdul Karim, Irfan Mehsood, Masood Jan, Ahsan Ramzan, Nooh Dastagir Butt

Journalism : Tikka Khan and Hafiz Tahir Khalil.

Public Service late Master Altaf Hussain

Tamgha-i-Pakistan

Services to Pakistan: late Huang Guiping, late Ding Mfang, late Chen Sai

Tamgha-i-Shujaat:

Gallantry: Amir Nawaz Khan, M. Kamran, retired Col M. Arif, M. Usman Shahbaz, Dr Kamran Ahmed, Sher Ahmed, Hussain Tunio, Amjad Ahmed, Mazhar Nawaz Shaikh, Bashir Ahmed Brohi, Zeeshan Ahmed, Naveed Ahmed, Zia ur Rehman, Javedullah, Dr Akbar Nasir, Sohail Zafar Chattha, Sadiq Shah, Raja Majid, M. Bilal Raja, Mubashir Saleem, Minhas Ahmad Khan, Ijaz Hafeez, Aqeel Ahmed Siddiqi, Waseem Ahmed Khan, Maj Zahoor Ahmed, Yahya Azeem and Hav Abid Ali

Tamgha-i-Pakistan,

Gallantry: Ch Waseem Akhtar, Ali Usman, Saleem Ahmad, Naseebullah Khan, M. Ashraf Chaddar

Services to Pakistan: Fathi Aly Youseef, Achad Bhuglah

Engineering, science, technology and innovation: Jehan Ara, Mudassir Sheikha, Riffat Shamshad, Saleem Khan Lohani, Dr Uzma Batool, Professor Dr M. Younas, DrRizwan Uppal, Dr Farah Naz Qamar, Professor Dr Tanwir Khaliq, Professor Dr Salman Ayaz, Dr Nusratullah Chaudhry, Dr S. Abbas Raza, Professor Khalid Mahmood, M. Shahzad, M. Saadullah, Dr Khurram Hameed, Syed M. Yasir Abbas, Shahzad Sadiq

Education: Dr Zahoorul Haq, Dr Samreen Hussain, Kamal Munir

Art: Noor Jahan Bilgrami, Rustam Ali Lone, Arif Khan alias Arbaz Khan, M. Iqbal Latif, Nigar Nazar, Zainullah, M. Hanif, Jamee Ahmad Paul, Dr Zulfiqar Siyal, Dr Waheed Ahmad, Neelam Ahmad Bashir, Dr Sheikh M. Iqbal, Sooraj Narain, Khansa M.aria, Literature Qari Dr Ikramullah, Awais Raza Qadri,

Sports: Shafiq Ahmed Chishti and Bisma Maroof

Journalism: Late Ajey Lalwani, late Irshad Mastoi, late Musa Khan Khel, late Arif Khan, late Ziaur Rehman Farooqi, late Shahid Zehri

Public Service: Cristina von Sperling Afridi, Farhaj Sikandar Yar Khan, Dr Faridullah Khan, Saima Saleem, Yasin Malik

Exporters: Hassan Javed, Shehzad Ashghar, Shabbir Dewan, Faud Garib, Khalid Mehmood, Kh Masood Akhtar,

Social service: Yaqoob Zamindar, Amin Hashwani

Tamgha-i-Quaid-i-Azam:

Services to Pakistan: Dr Mehreen Faruqi

Separately, the president also conferred Quaid-i-Azam Police Med­als and President Police Medals on 270 police personnel for their gallantry and exceptional performance. According to the Presidency, the president assented the awards for years 2014-15 and 2017-22.

It said 125 Quaid-i-Azam Police Medals and 145 President Police Medals were conferred on police personnel.

Published in Dawn, August 15th, 2022