President Alvi confers Tamgha-e-Shujaat to IGP Islamabad a day after Imran Khan alleged him being involved in a conspiracy of killing him
ISLAMABAD, March 23 (SABAH): President Dr. Arif Alvi on Thursday conferred civil honours upon various personalities, including foreign nationals, for their contributions in different fields for excellence in various fields of activities at an investiture ceremony at Aiwan-i-Sadr, particularly Inspector General Islamabad Police Dr. Akbar Nasir Khan, a day after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan alleged him being involved in a conspiracy of killing him. President Dr. Arif Alvi conferred Tamgha-e-Shujaat on IGP Islamabad Dr. Nasir Akbar Khan for his great services for the country.
An investiture ceremony to confer civil awards upon personalities who showed excellence in their respective field was held at Aiwan-e-Sadr in Islamabad on Thursday.
Prominent among those who were conferred with the civil awards are senior journalist Mujeebur Rehman Shami, Hafiz Tahir Khalil, Amir Allyas Rana, social worker Ramazan Cheepa, renowned scholar Dr. Anees Ahmed, Sindh Governor Muhammad Kamran Khan Tessori, and Inspector General of Islamabad Police Dr. Akbar Nasir Khan.
Late poet Amjad Islam Amjad, poet Saghir Siddique, Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum, former Supreme Court justice Rana Bhagwan Das, actor Qavi Khan and others were among those honoured posthumously at the investiture ceremony. President Dr. Arif Alvi conferred the Pakistan Civil Award of Hilal-i-Imtiaz upon Sardar Ahmad Nawaz Sukhera, former cabinet secretary, in recognition of his services in the field of Public Service.
A total of 253 civil awards were presented to Pakistani as well as foreign nationals at the ceremony. Eminent Urdu News Reader of Radio Pakistan Taskeen Zafar is also amongst the recipients of Presidential Pride of Performance award.
The president distributed the civil awards in 10 categories including Nishan-i-Imtiaz, Tamgha-i-Imtiaz, Hilal-i-Imtiaz, Hilal-i-Quaid–Azam, Sitara-i-Shujaat, Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Presidential Award for Pride of Performance, Tamgha-i-Shujaata and Tamgha-i-Khidmat.
The president conferred Nishan-i-Imtiaz on Sartaj Aziz, Mir Hasil Bazinjo and late Justice (Retd) Rana Bhagwandas for their public service; Ahmed Ali Chagla (art), late Sufi Ghulam Tabassum (poetry), Muhammad Qavi Khan (drama, film) and Jahangir Khan and Jansher Khan (sports).
The Hilal-i-Pakistan award was given to Ambassador (retd) Robin Lynn Raphel for her services to Pakistan.
The president conferred the Hilal-i-Imtiaz award on Khawaja Abdul Hayee (education), Engineer Professor Ahmed Farooq Bazai (academic), Dr. Talat Naseer Pasha (science), Hakeem Rizwan Hafeez (health), Dr. Raja Ali Raza (engineering), Raees Ahmed (arts), late Amjad Islam Amjad (arts), late Arif Nizami, Mujibur Rehman Shami and Altaf Hassan Qureshi (journalism); Bilquees Bano Edhi (social services), Muhammad Ramzan Chhipa, Sardar Ahmed Nawaz Sukhera, late Maroof Afzal, Senator Talha Mahmood, Capt (retd) Sher Alam Mehsud, Justice (retd) Fazal Karim, Sultan Ali Alana and Hilalur Rehman (public service); Dr. Gohar Ejaz (philanthropy) and Khawaja Masood Akhtar (sports exports).
The president conferred the Hilal-i-Quaid-i-Azam award on Dr. James M. Shera for his services to Pakistan.
The Sitara-i-Shujaat award was given to Malik Muhammad Hassan, late Malik Gangrai, Malik Shumali Khan, late Fiza Tariq Malik, Raja Mustafa Ali, Muhammad Afzal Sheikh and Sajid Kiani (Gallantry) and Mansoor Ahmed Khan (services to Pakistan).
The president awarded Sitara-i-Imtiaz to Muhammad Afzal Javed and Zafarulah Khan (services to Pakistan), Dr Saeed Akhtar (medicine), late Humayun Khan (agriculture), Dr Sharif Malik (medicine), Mahfoozur Rehman (education), Fakhar-e-Alam (hosting), late Saghar Siddiqui (poetry), late Shama Khalid (art); late Ziauddin, Javed Chaudhry and Nadeem Malik (journalism); Dr Anees Ahmed and Maulana Hanif Jalandhari (religious scholar), and Waqar Ahmed Malik (public service).
Among others who were also conferred the Sitara-i-Imtiaz award included Syed Murataz Mahmood (public service), Imdadullah Bosal (public service) and Mirza Ishtiaq Baig (social service); Lt Gen Noman Zakaria, Major General Muhammad Idris Dastgir, Brigadier Salman Rashid Hussain, Muhammad Iqbal Khan, Asim Ali Khan, Samina Chagali, Dr Amir Malik, Tahir Rai and Riazuddin Sheikh (public service); Behroz Sabzwari and Tariq Mahmood (art).
The president awarded Presidential Award for Pride of Performance to Dr Ayesha Siddiqa (medicine), Anjum Shaheen (acting); Taskeen Zafar, Syed Shamoon Hashmi and late Prof. Jahazeb Niaz Khan (art); Shahida and Irfan Mehsud (sports); and Tika Khan and Hafiz Tahir Khalil (journalism).
In recognition of their gallantry, the Tamgha-i-Shujaat award was conferred on Amir Nawaz Shaheed, Muhammad Kamran Shaheed, Sher Ahmed, Tanveer Hussain Tonio, Amjad Ahmed Sheikh, Mazhar Nawaz Sheikh, Bashir Ahmed Barohi, Zeeshan Ahmed, Naved Ahmed, Ziaur Rehman, Javedullah Shaheed, Dr Akbar Nasir Khan, Sohail Zafar Chattha, Sadiq Shah, Raja Muhammad Majid, Bilal Raja, Mubashir Saleem, Minhas Ahmed Khan, Ijaz Hafeez, Aqeel Ahmed Siddiqui and Waseem Ahmed Khan.
President Alvi conferred Tamgha-i-Imtiaz on Sindh Governor Kamran Tesori, Achad Bhuglah (services to Pakistan), Jehan Ara (IT), Uzma Batool (medicine), Dr Rizwan Uppal (health), Dr. Tanvir Khaliq (medicine), Dr. Syed Abbas Raza (medicine), Prof. Dr. Khalid Mehmood (medicine), Der Zahoorul Haq (higher education) Dr. Samreen Hussain (education), Rustam Ali Lone (art), Arif Khan (art), Nigar Nazar (art), Dr Ikramullah (Qiraat) and Bisma Maroof (sports).
The recognition of their public service, the president conferred Tamgha-i-Imtiaz on Cristina VON Sperling Afridi, Saima Saleem, SP Sumera Azam, Shehzad Afzal Khan, Major Muhammad Ali Tehseen, Major Atif Naveed, Saleh Azeem, Insaf Shah, Amin, Khawaja Adnan Zaheer, Ahmed Farooq, Imran Rasool, Nadeem Akhtar Sherazi, Tahir Akbar Awan, Syed Ali Hasnain Hussain and Dr. Asif Bashir. Whereas Dr. Shahid Masood got the said award for his services in (medicine), Khansa Maria (literature) and Amin Haswani (philanthropy) and Amir Ilyas Rana (journalism).
The president awarded Tamgha-i-Khidmat to Chaudhry Pervez Iqbal Lusar for his services to Pakistan.
Coincidentally, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan on the other day claimed that police chiefs of Punjab and Islamabad alongside their handlers hatched a conspiracy to kill him as they are getting serious to assassinate him”.
“The IGs of Punjab and Islamabad constituted two separate squads, who will join the PTI workers and open fire on the police… to provoke an armed retaliation and eventually reach [inside the house] and assassinate me, in a day or two,” he alleged. He added the IGs and handlers planned a Model Town-type murder.
In light of this alleged plan, the PTI chairman also issued instructions to his supporters asking them not to provoke the police at any cost. If the police want to approach him with any warrant or for any other matter, let them approach him directly,