ISLAMABAD, March 23: The following is the list of civil and military awards given away by President Gen Pervez Musharraf at the investiture ceremony held at the ‘Aiwan-i-Sadr’ on Saturday:

HILAL-I-IMTIAZ (MILITARY): Lt-Gen Faiz Jilani, Lt-Gen Zarrar Azim, Lt-Gen Syed Arif Hassan, Air Marshal Sarfraz Arshad Toor, Lt-Gen Shahid Aziz, Lt-Gen Shahid Hamid, Air Marshal Keleem Saadat, Lt-Gen Masood Perwaiz, Air Vice-Marshal Javed Zafar Pasha, Rear Admiral Syed Ahmed Baqar, Rear Admiral Taj Mohammad Khattak, Rear Admiral Shahid Karimullah, Rear Admiral Irfan Ahmed, Maj-Gen Pervez Akmal, Maj-Gen Tajul Haq, Maj-Gen Kaizad Maneck Sopariwala, Maj-Gen Mohammad Iqbal Akbar Khan, Maj-Gen Mohammad Iqbal Akbar Khan, Maj-Gen Tariq Hamid, Maj-Gen Asif Duraiz, Maj-Gen Fahim Akhtar Khan, Maj-Gen Ali Baz, Maj-Gen Shahid Saddiq Tirmizey, Maj-Gen Javed Alam Khan, Maj-Gen Khalid Munir Khan, Air Vice-Marshal Arshad Rashid Sethi, Maj-Gen Syed Abdul Ahad Najmi, Maj-Gen Asghar Ali and Maj-Gen Ashur Khan.

NISHAN-I-IMTIAZ: Princess Sarvathel Hassan next of kin Late Begum Shaista Suharwardy Ikramullah.

HILAL-I-PAKSITAN: Mushtaq Ahmed Khan Yousufi, Lt-Gen Hamid Javaid, Khalid Maqbool and Prof Dr Sheikh Arshad Saeed.

SITARA-I-IMTIAZ: Amna Baloch d/o Dr N.A. Baloch, Dr Syed Wilayat Husain, Syed Ansar Ahmad Burney, Dr Fouzia Saleemi, Khurshid Ahmed, Talat Mahmood Ghumman, Dr Arshad M. Mirza, Saiyedul Haque, Prof Dr Mohammad Iqbal Choudhary, Prof Dr Mohammad Perwaiz Iqbal, Dr Mohammad Yar Khuhawar, Dr Wasim Ahmad, Prof Azhar Masood Ahmed Faruqui, Prof Mohamamd Ilyas Burney, Prof Mohammad Rehman, Prof Dr Mohammed Salim Akhter, Omer Kureishi,

PRIDE OF PERFORMANCE: Himayat Ali Shair, Prof Gilani Kamran, Ali Haider Joshi, Ghaos Bakhsh Sabir, Engr Afzaal Ahmed, Anwar Muzaffar, Jan Nisar, Rashid Ahmad, Shafiqullah, Dr Aasim Fasih Khan, Dr Abdul Qadeer Malik, Abdul Majeed, Maj Imran Basit, Ghulam Mustafa, Mohsin Agha, Mohammad Naeem, Mushtaq Ahmed, Prof Dr Khalid Aftab, Deena M. Mistri, Prof Dr Asghari Maqsood, Sabz Ali, Dr Syed Moosa Hasany, Dr Shoaib Ahmad, Dr Shagufta Khaliq, Dr Sabira Begum, Dr Aisha Mohyuddin, Asif Satar s/o Late Dr Abdus Sattar, Umar Sardar, Prof Dr Mohammad Ajmal Khan, Mohammad Aslam Malik, Mohammad Akram, Dr Mohammad Imran, Dr Mohammad Farooque, Akhtar Viqar Azim, Syed Askari Mian Irani, Shoaib Mansoor, Dr Shaukat Mahmood (Maxim), Farooq Zamir Ghory, Kanwal Naseer, Mohammad Jamil (Jamil Fakhri) and Muneeza Basir mother of Late Nazia Hassan.

SITARA-I-QUAID-I-AZAM: Robert Traister.

TAMGHA-I-SHUJAAT: Aqeel Khan brother of Late Sepoy Asal Khan, Syed Zaheerul Islam and Wahid Habib.

TAMGHA-I-IMTIAZ: Lt-Col Naveed Ahsan brother of Qaisar Ahsan, Din Gul, Sardar Sham Singh, Mohammad Tehzib, Najamus Saqib Shabbir, Hakeem Nawaz Ahmed Khan Salik, Prof Dr Shagufta Zulfiqar, Prof Dr Mustafa Shameel, Prof Dr Mir Hatam, Dr Pramila Lall, Arbab Zafarullah Khan, Taj Mohammad TajaI, Ishrat Saqib, Gulraiz Tabassum and Wazir Afzal.—APP

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