Mehwish Hayat displays Tamgha-e-Imtiaz with pride

KARACHI: Pakistan actress Mehwish Hayat, who received Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, for her outstanding performance in acting on Pakistan Day has returned to Karachi from Islamabad.

Mehwish Hayat took to Twitter displaying the medal on her heart writing, “Wearing it on my heart with pride.”

She tweets with medal, heart and victory emoji saying, “Bringing home the medal. wearing it on my heart with pride. Karachi here we come.”

After receiving the prestigious 'Tamgha-e-Imtiaz' has come forth expressing her sentiments, on her achievement, in an emotional post that she uploaded recently.

Dedicating her feat to all the girls who dream big, the Load Wedding starlet reminisced about her journey to stardom. She wrote:

"An eight-year-old girl went to the PTV studios holding her mother’s hand tightly. She was totally clueless about all the hustle and bustle going on around her. But she was equally fascinated by the lights, the cameras and the way in which everybody was hard at work including her mother who was an actress."

Mehwish added, "Even as a child the wobbly sets amused her but she could see on the screens the magic being woven in that studio creating dreams for so many people. Yesterday that same little girl arrived at the Aiwan-e-Sadr holding tightly on to her mother’s hand equally bemused by her surroundings. That girl knows that she is blessed to be there receiving such a prestigious honour in the company of such distinguished people following in the footsteps of so many legends, so many of her own heroes. At heart she remains that simple little girl from Karachi who has been fortunate to live her dreams. Her journey from that PTV studio to the Awan-e-Sadr has been a long one and by no means the easiest. But never in her wildest dreams did she see this recognition coming at such a tender age. Nor did she see the role she would go on to play in the revival of Pakistani Cinema and her contribution being acknowledged in this way."