The invest­iture ceremo­ny would take place on Pakist­an DayISLAMABAD: The government has issued a list of 127 persons, including 18 foreigners, who will be conferred civil awards by President Dr Arif Alvi on March 23 for showing excellence in their respective fields. The investiture ceremony of the awards would take place on March 23, a Cabinet Division press release said on Sunday. As many as eight personalities — Zaheer Ayub Baig (Punjab), Ghulam Asghar (Islamabad), Prof Dr Tasawar Hayat (Punjab), Wasim Akram (Punjab), Waqar Younis (Punjab), Prof Dr Recep Akdag (Turkey), Dr Michael Jansen (Germany) and Prof Abdul Bari Khan (Sindh) — would be decorated with ‘Hilal-i-Imtiaz’ award. Pakistan to confer its highest civilian award on Saudi crown princeThe Sitara-i-Shuja’at award would go to Muhammad Idrees Shaheed, Shaheed Nawabzada Mir Siraj Raisani (Balochistan), Asad Ali (Sindh) and Shaheed Mairaj Ahmed Umrani (Balochistan). The ‘Sitara-i-Quaid-i- Azam’ award would be given to Naveed Ahmed Sherwani (USA), while ‘Tamgha-i-Pakistan’ would go to Li Xuedon (China).

Source: The Express Tribune March 10, 2019 16:30 UTC