ISLAMABAD, Mar 24 (APP):President Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday conferred insignias of military awards upon 42 officers of Pakistan armed forces.
The Presidential Investiture ceremony was held at the Aiwan-e-Sadr in connection with Pakistan Day and was attended by senior officers of Pakistan armed forces, government officials and families of the recipients of the awards.
The recipients of Hilal-i-Imtiaz (Military) included Lt. Gen. Mohsin Muhammad Qureshi, Air Marshal Abdul Moeed Khan, Air Marshal Tariq Zia, Air Marshal Ghulam Abbas Ghuman, Maj
or Gen. Shoaib Ahmed, Maj
or Gen. Naseer Ahmed Samore, Rear Admiral Habibur Rehman, Maj
or Gen. Shazia Nisar, Maj
or Gen. Ejaz Ghani, Maj
or Gen. Nadeem Ahmed Rana, Maj
or Gen. Waseem Ahmad Khan, Maj
or Gen. Arshad Naseem, Rear Admiral Syed Ahmed Salman, Maj
or Gen. Arshad Mehmood, Maj
or Gen. Muhammad Atif Mansha, Maj
or Gen. Javed Dost Chandio, Maj
or Gen. Muhammad Irfan Khan, Maj
or General Syed Asif Hussain, Maj
or Gen. Sheheryar Parvez Butt, Air Vice Marshal Zaffar Aslam, Maj
or Gen. Imranullah, Rear Admiral Jawad Ahmed, Rear Admiral Abdul Munib, Rear Admiral Faisal Amin, Maj
or Gen. Muhamma
d Raza Aizad, Maj
or General Muhammad Ishaq Khattak, Maj
or Gen. Ch. Amin Ajmal, Maj
or Gen. Jawwad Ahmed Qazi, Maj
or Gen. Ahmad Bilal, Maj
or Gen. Iftikhar Hassan Chaudhry, Maj
or Gen. Ehsan Ali, Maj
or Gen. Kamran Nazir Malik, Maj
or Gen. Wajid Aziz, Maj
or Gen. Muhammad Umer Bashir, Maj
or Gen. Asad ur Rehman Afzal Cheema, Maj
or Gen. Mushtaq Ali, Maj
or Gen. Muhammad Imtanan Babar, Maj
or Gen. Muhammad Farhan Yousaf, Rear Admiral Syed Faisal Ali Shah, Maj
or Gen. Ahsan Altaf and Maj
or Gen. Abeena Choudry.
The president also conferred Sitara-i-Basalat (posthumous) upon Captain Abdul Wali Shaheed, who embraced martyrdom during an operation against terrorists in North Waziristan.