Independence Day: 44 Non-Operational Military awards conferred on PAF officers

ISLAMABAD: President of Pakistan, Mamnoon Hussain has conferred Non-Operational Military awards upon 44 Officers of Pakistan Air Force on the occasion of Independence Day.

The awards included two Hilal-i-Imtiaz (Military), 16 Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Military), 15 Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (Military), two Sitara-i-Basalat and nine Tamgha-i-Basalat.

According to PAF Directorate of Media Affairs, the recipient of Hilal-i-Imtiaz (Military) included Air Marshal Muhammad Ashfaque Arain and Air Marshal Asad Abdur Rehman Khan Lodhi.

The recipient of Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Military) included Air Vice Marshal Salman Ahsan Bukhari, Air Commodore Asim Anwar, Air Commodore Shahid Latif Bajwa, Air Commodore Muhammad Zahoor Faisal, Air Commodore Muhammad Afzal, Air Commodore Ilyas Sultan, Air Commodore Tameez Uddin Shakir Qazi, Air Commodore Syed Mohsin Ali Hussaini, Air Commodore Sarfraz Khan, Air Commodore Muhammad Farooq Haider, Air Commodore Nusrat Javed, Group Captain Riaz Ahmed, Group Captain Jamil Nazar, Group Captain Adnan Masood Hassan, Group Captain Mujeeb Ur Rehman and Group Captain Muhammad Ali.

Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (Military)

Group Captain Syed Muhammad Ali
Group Captain Mahmood Faisal Zafar
Group Captain Ahmad Junaid
Group Captain Ali Khurram Aziz
Group Captain Syed Inam Ullah
Group Captain Ahmer Raza
Group Captain Shahid Waheed
Wing Commander Shaukat Mehmood
Wing Commander Faisal Fazal Muhammad Khan
Wing Commander Talha Ayaz Khan
Wing Commander Syed Masood Ahmed
Wing Commander Syed Arsalan Ali
Wing Commander Ali Asher
Wing Commander Muhammad Shoaib
Wing Commander Mirat Ul Ain Azizi.

The Sitara-i-Basalat

Air Commodore Shafqat Mushtaq (Late) and Wing Commander Aatir Mehboob.
Tamgha-i-Basalat
Wing Commander Ahmad Adnan Awan
Wing Commander S Nisar Ahmad Un Nabi
Squadron Leader Abdul Ghaffar Buzdar
Squadron Leader Yasir Sarfraz
Squadron Leader Asim Habib
Squadron Leader Umar Rashid
Squadron Leader Tanveer Anwar
Squadron Leader Sohail Imran and Flight Lieutenant Shoaib Rasheed (Late).