ISLAMABAD: On the occasion of Pakistan Day, President Dr Arif Alvi conferred 58 military and 66 civil awards on personalities from different walks of life for their meritorious services in various fields at an investiture ceremony at President House on Saturday.

According to an of ficial handout issued by the Presidency, the awards in military categories included Hilal-i-Imtiaz (45) and Sitara-i-Basalat (13).

The awardsincivilcategoriesincluded Nishan-i-Imtiaz (2), Hilal-i-Imtiaz (7), Sitara-i-Pakistan (2), Sitara-i-Shuja`at (4), Sitara-i-Imtiaz (15), President`s Award for Pride of Performance (7), Sitara-i-Quaid-i-Azam (1), Tamgha-iShuja`at (23) and Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (5).

The recipients of civil national awardsincluded 10 foreigners from Germany, Romania, Belgium, Canada and the US.

Following are the recipients of military and civil awards: Hilal-i-Imtiaz (military): Lt Gen Zahid Hamid, Air Marshal Syed Noman Ali, Air Marshal Mohammad Khalid Dabir, Maj Gen Naeem Nagi, Maj Gen Saleem Ahmad Khan, Maj Gen Tahir Mukhtar, Maj Gen Arshad Mahmood, Maj Gen Tariq Mahmood Satti, Maj Gen Iftikhar Ahmed, Maj Gen Sohail Aziz, Maj Gen Rahat Abbas, Rear Admiral Syed Asad Karim, Air Vice Marshal Nadeem Tariq, Maj Gen Nauman Ahmed Hashmi, Air Vice Marshal Shahab Shafgat, Air Vice Marshal Salman Ahsan Bokhari, Maj Gen Rizwan Afzal, Maj Gen Azhar Abbas, Maj Gen Amjad Ahmad Butt, Maj Gen Faiz Hamid, Maj Gen Mohammad Aamer, Maj Gen Nadir Khan, Maj Gen Mohammad Chiragh Haider, Rear Admiral Zain Zulfiqar, Rear Admiral Faisal Rasul Lodhi, Rear Admiral Zahid Ilyas, Rear Admiral Mohammad Zubair Shafique, Maj Gen Nadeem Ahmed Anjum, Maj Gen Saeed Akhtar, Maj GenKhalid Javed, Maj Gen Khalid Zia, Maj Gen Saeed Ahmed Nagra, Maj Gen Amjad Ali Khan Khattak, Maj Gen Azhar Rashid, Maj Gen Ali Amir Awan, Maj Gen Abid Latif Khan, Maj Gen Mohammad Saeed, Maj Gen Akhtar Nawaz, Maj Gen Sardar Hassan Azhar Hayat, Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, Maj Gen Usman Haq, Maj Gen Tariq Zamir, Rear Admiral Mohammad Shafique, Air Vice Marshal Imran Khalid and Maj Gen Liaquat Ali.

Sitara-i-Basalat (military): Col Sohail Abid (Shaheed), Maj Ali Salman Nasir (Shaheed), Capt Shahid Farooq Rana, CaptJunaidHafeez(Shaheed),LtArslan Alam Satti (Shaheed), Sub Shoukat Khan (Shaheed), Sep Syed Sabtain Haider, Sep Kamran Afzaal (Shaheed), Sep Aftab Ahmed Khan (Shaheed), Sep Fateh Ullah (Shaheed), Sep Yahya Khan, CDT-I Mirza Shahzaib Mughal and MGT-I Mohammad Aslam (Shaheed).

Nishan-i-Shuja`at (civil): Naeem Rashid (Shaheed), Pakistani citizen in New Zealand.

Nishan-i-Imtiaz (civil): Shoaib SultanKhan and Sadruddin Hashwani.

Hilal-i-Imtiaz (civil): Zaheer Ayub Baig, Ghulam Asghar, Prof Dr Tasawar Hayat, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Prof Abdul Bari Khan and Dr Michael Jansen (Germany).

Sitara-i-Pakistan (civil): Wajiha Haris (Romania) and Mohammad Ilyas Khan.

Sitara-i-Shuja`at (civil): Mohammad Idrees Shaheed, Siraj Khan Raisani, Asad Ali and Mairaj Ahmed Umrani Shaheed.

Sitara-i-Imtiaz (civil): Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi, Dr Inayatullah Padhiar, Syed Abu Ahmad Akif, Pir Mohammad Diwan, Ageel Karim Dhedhi, Neelofar Saeed, Samar Ali Khan, Saima Shahbaz Malik,ShamimAhmedSheikh(Canada), Dr Asif M. Rehman (USA), Dr Zia ul Hasan, Steven J. Burian (USA), Dr James A. Tebbe (USA) and Kaleemullah Lashari.

Pride of Performance (civil): Engr Dr Nasir Mahmood Khan, Ishrat Fatima; Reema Khan, Mohammad Arshad Sharif, Lugman Ali Afzal, Sana Ullah Ghumman and Rasheed Masood Khan.Sitara-i-Quaid-i-Azam (civil): Naveed Ahmed Sherwani (USA) and Wajid Khan.

Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (civil): Mohammad Hanif Bashir, Imran Aqig, Qamar Zaman, Mohammad Fayyaz Tipu, Syed Naymatullah, Syed Ghaib Ali Shah, Haji Zahid Khan, Khu shal Khan, Brig Rizwan Afzal, Mohammad Younis, Sajid Hussain, Roma Malik, Umer Sajid Shaheed, Dr Khalid Khan, Mohammad Numan Zaf ar, Wajahat Ullah Afridi, Syed Zahid Hussain Jillani, Syed Mohammad Omer Mobeen Jillani Shaheed, Janat Khatoon, (retired) Sub Maj Allah Ditta Shaheed, Mohammad Iqbal, Hakeem Said, Syed Fawad Ali Shaheed, Ihsan Ullah, Muhib Khan Shaheed, Syed Shahrukh Haider Zaidi, Shafait Hussain, Saim Shafait Shaheed and Akram Khan Shaheed.

Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (civil): Dr Ikram Ali Malik, Flt-Lt retired Mohammad Siddique Sheikh, Sardar Ali Takkar, Mehwish Hayat and Malik Amin Aslam Khan.

The awards for deceased personalities were received by their next of kin.