ISLAMABAD: On the occasion of Independence Day, President Mamnoon Hussain has approved conferment of civil awards on Pakistanis as well as foreigners who have exhibited excellence in their fields.

The awards would be given away on Pakistan Day (March 23, 2016), said a press release issued on Friday.

The names of the recipients of civil awards as follows:

NISHAN-I-IMTIAZ: Parvez Butt (Punjab) engineering; Dr Ishrat Hussain (Sindh) public service; and Anwar Ali (Punjab) science.

HILAL-I-IMTIAZ: Ejaz Ahmed Mukhtar (Punjab) science; and Zeba Ali (Punjab) arts and films.

SITARA-I-SHUJAAT: Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali (Shaheed) Punjab; Retired Maj Muhammad Aslam Pervez (Gilgit-Baltistan); Moeen Habib Khan (Punjab); Tehseen Ullah Shah (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa); Sohail Akbar Khan (Punjab); and Syed Mohsin Raza (Punjab).

Zeba Ali & Ishrat Hussain
Zeba Ali & Ishrat Hussain

SITARA-I-IMTIAZ: Prof Carlo Alberto Pinelli (Italy) sports; Mohamed Jamaludin (Sri Lanka) services to Pakistan; Dr Muhammad Zafarullah Khan (Punjab) science; Khalid Iqbal Chishtee (Punjab) science; Dr Talat Naseer Pasha (Punjab) science; Dr Qamar Mehboob (Punjab) engineering; Dr Raja Ali Raza Anwer (Punjab) engineering; Dr Nasrullah Khan (Sindh) engineering; Dr Numan Iqbal (Punjab) engineering; Retired Air Cdre Chaudhry Iftikhar Ahmad (Punjab) engineering; Muhammad Ajmal Javed (Punjab) engineering; Dr Masood Hameed Khan (Sindh) health; Dr Abdul Aziz Othman Altwaijri (Saudi Arabia) services to Pakistan; Ajmal Khan (KP) education; Dr S. Sohail H. Naqvi (Punjab) education; Dr Arshad Ali (Punjab) education;

Dr Mukhtar Ahmed (Punjab) education; Dr Farhat Abbas (Sindh) medicine; Dr Faisal Saud Dar (Punjab) health; Sahar Ansari (Sindh) literature; Dr Shahbaz Malik (Punjab) literature; Dr Attash Durrani (Punjab) literature; Ijaz ul Hassan (Punjab) literature; Masood Ashaar (Punjab) literature; Ms Ronak Lakhani, sports; Soofian Zuberi, (USA) services to Pakistan; Babar Yaqoob Fateh Muhammad (Balochistan) public service; Jamil Ahmad (Punjab) public service; Prof Khalida Tareen (Punjab) public service; Rana Ghulam Shabbir (Punjab) public service; Zulfiqar Ahmad Cheema (Punjab) public service; Aziz Boolani (Sindh) public service; Abdul Jabbar Khan (Balochistan) public service; Shaharyar Sultan (Punjab) public service; and Dr Asif Mahmood Jah (Punjab) social work.—APP

Published in Dawn, August 15th, 2015

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