Investiture ceremony held at Air Headquarters

Islamabad

An investiture ceremony was held at Air Headquarters, here, in which Operational and Non Operational Military awards were conferred upon officers and airmen of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) for their distinguished services, says a PAF press release.

Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman, Chief of the Air Staff, Pakistan Air Force was the chief guest on the occasion. In the ceremony, 30 ‘Sitara-i-Imtiaz’ (Military), 22 ‘Tamgha-i-Imtiaz’ (Military), eight ‘Tamgha-i-Basalat’ were conferred upon PAF officers, while three ‘Tamgha-i-Basalat’ and nine ‘Tamgha-i-Khidmat’ (Military) Class-I, were conferred upon PAF JCOs & airmen.

These awards were given in recognition of the acts of extreme devotion to duty rendered by the officers and airmen of PAF, for positively contributing towards the overall efficiency of the service. A large number of PAF high ranking officers and personnel attended the ceremony.

List of awardees is as follows:

Award of ‘Sitara-i-Imtiaz’ (Military):

Air Vice Marshal Muhammad Zahid Mahmood, Air Vice Marshal Muhammad Athar Shams, Air Vice Marshal Aamir Masood, Air Commodore Noor Ilahi Bajwa, Air Commodore Syed Muhammad Ali, Air Commodore Muhammad Mughees Afzal, Air Commodore Sajid Mahmood, Air Commodore Nadeem Khalid, Air Commodore Sikandar Hayat Niazi, Air Commodore Jibran Saleem Butt, Air Commodore Irfan Sabir, Air Commodore Muiz-Ud-Din Shami, Air Commodore Ahmad Hassan, Air Commodore Muhammad Shuaib, Air Commodore Zia-Ur-Rehman, Air Commodore Syed Sabahat Hassan Shah, Air Commodore Haider Raza Khan, Air Commodore Moazzam Shahzad, Air Commodore Ch Iftikhar Ahmad, Air Commodore Arif Saleem, Air Commodore Raja Abdul Basit, Group Captain Khawar Javed, Group Captain Nadeem Yousaf, Group Captain Amir Sarwar, Group Captain Gohar Majeed, Group Captain Saqib Mahmood Jan, Group Captain Shakeel Safdar, Group Captain Khalid Masood Syed, Group Captain Muhammad Ibrahim and Group Captain Tahir Rehman.

Award of ‘Tamgha-i-Imtiaz’ (Military):

Group Captain Zahid-Ul-Hassan, Group Captain Noman Khalil, Group Captain Zulfiqar Ali Shaheen, Group Captain Hafiz Javed Iqbal, Group Captain Tariq Azeem, Group Captain Agha Mehr Gul, Group Captain Nasir Jamal Khattak, Group Captain Syed Shahzada Alam, Group Captain Omair Ahmed Najmi, Group Captain Aatir Mehboob, Group Captain Hashim Khan, Group Captain Sohail Ahmed, Group Captain Syed Muhammad Ali, Group Captain Salman Ahmad Malik, Group Captain Saifullah, Group Captain Abdus Salam, Wing Commander Muhammad Anjum Saeed, Wing Commander Mutahir-Ul-Islam, Wing Commander Mahmood Ahmad Qureshi, Wing Commander M Suleman Khalid Mughal, Wing Commander Malik Imran-e-Adalat and Wing Commander Muhammad Altaf Saeed (posthumous).

Award of ‘Tamgha-i-Basalat’ (Serving):

Wing Commander Yasir Shafiq Malik, Squadron Leader Syed Ahmed Faraz, Squadron Leader Tariq Wahid Malik, Squadron Leader Furqan Ahmad Latif, Squadron Leader Syed Salman Ali Shahid, Squadron Leader Ahmad Sami Sawhney, Squadron Leader Umair Azam, Flt Lt Sarfraz Ahmad, Senior Tech Muhammad Wakeel, Junior Tech Taimur Ahmed, and Junior Tech Muhammad Zubair Moaaz.

Award of ‘Tamgha-i-Khidmat’ (Military) CLASS-I:

Chief Warrant Officer Zafar Iqbal, Chief Warrant Officer Arshad Mahmood, Chief Warrant Officer Falak Sher, Chief Warrant Officer Muhammad Tajammal, Chief Warrant Officer Hafeez Khan, Chief Warrant Officer Sajid Mehmood, Warrant Warrant Officer Muhammad Javed, Assistant Warrant Off Muhammad Amin, Assistant Warrant Officer Umar Draz.