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As part of the country’s Independence Day celebrations, the Government of Pakistan announced the annual list of civil honours. The awardees, who are being recognised for their services to Pakistan in a range of fields, will receive their awards on March 23 (Pakistan Day) next year.

Of a total of 372 awards, 54 will be presented for contributions to the arts, 29 for literature and nine for sports. Notable awardees from the list include actors Sania Saeed, Maria Wasti and Mahmood Aslam; musicians Shiraz Uppal and Zulfiqar Jabbar Khan (Xulfi) and TV host Shafat Ali.

The list of award recipients is as follows:

Arts

Hilal-i-Imtiaz

Sultana Siddiqi - Production

Sitara-i-Imtiaz

Bilqees Bano (Nisho Begum) - Acting

Iftikhar Ahmed Thakur - Acting

Syed Fasih Uddin Soharwardhy - Naat khawani

Shakir Hussain - Compering

Taranam Naz - Singing

Saira John Peter - Opera singing

Abida Ehsan - Art education, art history and painting

Raja Changez Sultan - Painting

Muhammad Naeem Tahir - Theatre

Bashir Ahmed - Painting

President’s Award for Pride of Performance

Mahmood Aslam - Acting

Sarfraz Hussain Ansari - Acting and direction

M Ehtesham Warsi (M Warsi) - Acting

Arshad Hussain - Acting

Ustad Mazhar Umrao Bundu Khan - Sarangi

Ghazala Kaifi - Acting

Khawaja Saleem Ahmad - Acting and directing

Shazma Haleem - Acting

Rafia Bano - Singing

Jahangir Iqbal (Ustad Ejaz Tawakal Khan) - Classical music

Shaukat Hussain Samrat (Pappu Samrat) - Choreography

Aftab Zafar - Painting and illustration

Tayyeba Aziz - Painting and sculpting

Aleem Dad Khan - Visual Arts

Allah Jurio - Boreendo making

Sheikh Muhammad Yousaf Arts - Kashmiri embroidery

Ameer Buksh - Block printing

Nasir Shahzad - Painting

Nadeem Salamat - Qawwali

Shahbaz Ali - Harmonium

Syeda Maria Wasti - Acting

Sania Saeed - Acting

Gulshan Ara Syed - Singing

Talib Hussain Dard - Music

Mushtaq Shifai - Singing

Muhammad Imran Qureshi - Painting

Zohaib Hassan - Sarangi

Hidayat Ullah Khan - Painting and sculpting

Zulfiqar Jabbar Khan (Xulfi) - Music

Syed Wahab Hussain Shah - Choreography

Tangha-i-Imtiaz

Muhammad Noor Ul Hassan Malik Acting and anchoring

Shafat Ali - Hosting

Shiraz Uppal - Singing and music composition

Jabbar Abbas - Singing

Ali Saad - Painting

Muhammad Ramzan - Khussa making

Jahangir Khan - Shoemaking

Ghulam Haider - Sculpting and stone carving

Rozi Khan - Balochi chawat making

Akhtar Qureshi - Naat khawani

Khan Muhammad Chachar - Naat khawani

Hafiz Marghoob Ahmed Hamdani - Naat khawani

Rubina Kazmi - Fashion design

Literature

Nishan-i-Imtiaz

Asad Muhammad Khan - Playwriting and poetry

Hilal-i-Imtiaz

Ejaz Rahim - Poetry

Muhammad Khurshid Ul Hasan Rizvi - Poetry

Sitara-i-Imtiaz

Muhammad Shakeel Adilzada - Short story writing

Prof Brigadier (retd) Waheed Uz Zaman Tariq - Iqbal Studies

Maqsood Hussain Jafri - Poetry

Riaz ul Haq Tahir (Riaz Majeed) - Naat writing

Muhammad Hafeez Khan - Writing

Prof Dr Muhammad Saleem Mazhar - Writings on sufism, historiography and culture

Hashim Nadeem - Playwriting and novel writing

Syed Ghulam Abbas (Muhsin Naqvi) - Poetry

President’s Award for Pride of Performance

Dr Shahida Shaheen - Writing and poetry

Ali Muhammad Farshi - Poetry

Aslam Javed - Poetry

Muhammad Muti-Ur-Rehman Mumtaz (Rehman Faris) - Poetry

Syed Farid Ullah Shah Hassas - Writing

Shafqat Ullah Mushtaq - Poetry and writing

Nizakat Kalsoom (Kalsoom Zeb) - Writing and poetry

Syed Wasi Ahmad Fatmi - Literature

Tamgha-i-Imtiaz

Farida Hafeez - Writing

Agha Gul (Agha Anwar Gul) - Short story and novel writing

Noor Khan Muhammad Hasni - Writing

Khalid Fateh Muhammad - Writing and translation

Haleem Qureshi (Abdul Haleem) - Poetry

Manzoom Ali - Literature

Sherbaz Ali Khan Barcha - Literature

Muhammad Siddique G Memon - History and archaeology

Prof Dr Haroon-ur-Rasheed Tabassum - Literature

Qaiser Abbas Sabir - Novel and travelogue writing

Sports

Sitara-i-Imtiaz

Atta Mohammad Kakar - Senior boxing coach

Dr Waseem A Tai - Yoga

President’s Award for Pride of Performance

Bashir Bhola - Wrestling

Kishmala Talat - Shooting

Noor Zaman - Squash

Sultan Muhammad Golden - Ramp jump

Muhammad Waseem - Boxing

Sadiq Muhammad - Cricket

Tamgha-i-Imtiaz

Faiqa Riaz - Athletics