An investiture ceremony to confer civil and military awards amongst different personalities for their contributions in different fields is underway at Aiwan-e-Sadr in Islamabad.
President Arif Alvi is decorating the awards to the recipients.
Hilal-e-Imtiaz Military and Sitara-e-Basalat were conferred on officers and jawans of all three services.
The President also conferred 127 civil awards amongst different personalities for their contributions in different fields.
These include one Nishan-i-Imtiaz, three Hilal-e-Pakistan, eight Hilal-e-Imtiaz, three Hilal-e-Quaid-e-Azam, four Sitara-e- Pakistan, four Sitara-e-Shuja'at, thirty four Sitara-e-Imtiaz, 28 President's Award for Pride of Performance, one Sitara-e-Quaid-e-Azam, one Tamgha-e-Pakistan, 23 Tamgha-e-Shuja'at and seventeen Tamgha-e-Imtiaz.
Amongst the prominent personalities being conferred with awards include martyred Nawabzada Mir Siraj Khan Raisani, Aftab Sultan, Radio Pakistan's newscaster and anchor person Ms Ishrat Fatima, cricket stars Wasim Akram , Waqar Younis, Yasir Shah, film actresses Babra Sharif Reema Khan and Mehwish Hayat, Actors Muhammad Shabbir Jan and Iftikhar Ahmad Thakar, singers Sajjad Ali and Munir Hussain (late).
