List of Nishan-e-Imtiaz recipients

This is list of recipients of the Nishan-e-Imtiaz, listed in chronological order. The Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Template:Lang-ur; transl. Order of Excellence) is one of the state organized civil decorations of Islamic Republic of Pakistan.^[1]

It is awarded for achievements towards world recognition for Pakistan or outstanding service for the country. However, the award is not limited to citizens of Pakistan and, while it is a civilian award, it can also be awarded to military personnel and worn on the uniform. Nishan, translates as Decoration/Order, is a highly restricted and prestigious award roughly equivalent to Presidential Medal of Freedom (United States) and Order of the British Empire (United Kingdom), and is the first category award of Order of Imtiaz.^[1] The other three descending categories are Hilal-i-Imtiaz, Sitara-i-Imtiaz and Tamgha-e-Imtiaz. Usually, it is regarded as the highest award one can achieve in Pakistan since the higher award Nishan-e-Pakistan is awarded only to foreign Heads of States.^[2]

List

Image	Name of the recipient	Field	Year	Country^{[note 1]}	Ref
	Mohamed Hussein Tantawi	Egyptian field marshal		Egypt
	Majid Nizami	Journalist		Pakistan	^[3]
	Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi	Religio-political reformer	1958	Pakistan
	Aga Khan IV	Religious leader	1970	Switzerland
	Ratna Rajya Lakshmi Devi	Queen	1970	Nepal
	Abdus Salam	Scientist, nuclear physicist	1979	Pakistan
	Abdul Sattar Edhi	Social activist	1989	Pakistan
	Faiz Ahmed Faiz	Poet and scholar	1990	Pakistan	^[4]
	Abdul Waheed Kakar	Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan	1993	Pakistan
	Rudini	Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Army		Indonesia	^[5]
	Try Sutrisno	Commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces		Indonesia	^[6]
	Feisal Tanjung	Commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces	1995	Indonesia	^[7]
	R. Hartono	Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Army		Indonesia	^[8]
	Abdul Qadeer Khan	Nuclear scientist	1996	Pakistan
	Ishfaq Ahmad	Nuclear scientist	1998	Pakistan
File:Dilip Kumar in 1946 Enhanced.jpg	Dilip Kumar	Indian film actor	1998	India	^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]
	Riazuddin	Physicist	1998	Pakistan
	Sharifuddin Pirzada	Attorney-general of Pakistan	1998	Pakistan
	Muhammad Raziuddin Siddiqui	Educationist	1998	Pakistan
	Abdul Qadeer Khan	Nuclear scientist	1999	Pakistan
	Akhtar Hameed Khan		2001	Pakistan
	Shahid Karimullah		2002	Pakistan
	Atta ur Rahman	Scientist, educationist	2002	Pakistan
	Hakim Said	Social activist, philanthropist	2002	Pakistan	^[13]
	Yaşar Büyükanıt	General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces	2007	Turkey
	Habib Jalib	Poet and scholar	2009	Pakistan
	Khurshid Ahmad	Professor	2011	Pakistan	^[14]
	Mehdi Hassan	Film playback singer	2012	Pakistan
	Saadat Hassan Manto	Short story writer	2012	Pakistan
	Abdul Sattar Edhi	Social activist, founder of Edhi Foundation	2012	Pakistan
	Munir Ahmad Khan	Nuclear scientist	2012	Pakistan
	Rahimuddin Khan	Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee		Pakistan
	Rashad Mahmood	Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee	2013	Pakistan	^[15]
	Pervez Musharraf	Former President of Pakistan		Pakistan
	General Tariq Majid	Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee		Pakistan
	Hilmi Özkök	General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces		Turkey
	Shafi ur Rahman	SCP judge, Human Rights	2000	Pakistan
	Sherry Rehman	Politician, journalist and ambassador	2013	Pakistan	^[16]
	Anwar Shamim	Air-Marshal, Pakistan Air Force		Pakistan
	Raheel Sharif	Pakistan Army Chief	2013	Pakistan	^[15]
	Ghulam Nabi	Nuclear Physicist	2014	Pakistan	^[17]
	Asma Jahangir	Human Rights activist, HRC Pakistan head	2018	Pakistan	^[18]
	Admiral Ravindra C. Wijegunaratne	Chief of Defence Staff, Sri Lanka	2019	Sri Lanka
	Sadruddin Hashwani	Businessman	2019	Pakistan
	Jansher Khan	Squash Legend	2023	Pakistan	^[19]
	Muhammad Qavi Khan	Film and Television Actor	2023	Pakistan
	Mujahid Anwar Khan	Chief of Air Staff (Pakistan)	2023	Pakistan
	Nadeem Raza	Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee		Pakistan
	Muhammad Hafeez Qureshi (late), Iftikhar Arif, Islahuddin Siddiqui, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Raja Zafar ul Haq, Shamshad Akhtar		2024	Pakistan	^[20]

Notes

^ Citizenship at the time of awarding

References

^ ^a ^b "Honour and Awards Policy". pakistan.gov.pk. Government of Pakistan. Archived from the original on 2 March 2007. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
^ "Honours and awards Policy" (PDF). cabinet.gov.pk. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
^ Majid Nizami, recipient of Nishan-i-Imtiaz Award, Published 27 July 2014, Retrieved 28 May 2016
^ Nishan-e-Imtiaz for Faiz Ahmad Faiz on aaj.tv website, Retrieved 3 June 2016
^ Dinas Sejarah TNI AD 2017, p. 232.
^ Dinas Sejarah TNI AD 2019, p. 248-250.
^ Usamah Hisyam (Ketua Tim Penyusun), Feisal Tanjung:Terbaik untuk rakyat, terbaik bagi ABRI, Jakarta: Dharmapena, 1999, hal.749.
^ Dinas Sejarah TNI AD 2011, p. 130.
^ Desai, Meghnad (2014). "Dilip Kumar's autobiography reveals his journey from Peshawar to Bombay". p. 1. Archived from the original on 28 March 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
^ BBC News (2014). "Indian media: Dilip Kumar's Pakistan home a heritage site". p. 1. Archived from the original on 28 March 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
^ The Hindu, National (2016). "Dilip Kumar's home in Pak. on verge of collapse". p. 1. Archived from the original on 13 December 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
^ India Today, PTI (2015). "Dilip Kumar's ancestral home in Pakistan to be turned into a museum". p. 1. Archived from the original on 28 March 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
^ Nishan-e-Imtiaz Award for Hakim Said on The Nation newspaper, Published 17 October 2015, Retrieved 10 January 2017
^ Nishan-e-Imtiaz Award for Khurshid Ahmad (scholar) in 2011 on The Nation newspaper, Published 24 March 2011, Retrieved 24 January 2017
^ ^a ^b Nishan-e-Imtiaz Awards for both General Raheel Sharif and General Rashad Mahmood given by the President of Pakistan on The Express Tribune newspaper, Published 20 December 2013, Retrieved 10 January 2017
^ "Senate of Pakistan". www.senate.gov.pk. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
^ "Recipients of civil, military awards". www.dawn.com.
^ "Asma Jahangir, Junaid Jamshed, Afridi, Misbah among 141 nominated for Civil Awards". www.thenews.com.pk. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
^ "Jansher Khan awarded with Nishan-e-Imtiaz". The Frontier Post.
^ "President announces Civil Awards for citizens, foreigners". DAWN. 15 August 2023.

Works cited

Dinas Sejarah TNI AD (2011), Profil Kepala Staf Angkatan Darat Ke-1 s.d.Ke-26 (in Indonesian), vol. I
Dinas Sejarah TNI AD (2017), Rudini: Potret Pengabdian Prajurit TNI AD (in Indonesian), ISBN 978-602-7846-27-2
Dinas Sejarah TNI AD (2019), Jenderal TNI Try Sutrisno, Sosok Arek Suroboyo (in Indonesian), vol. I

[3] Citizenship at the time of awarding

[civil-awards-list-1] "Honour and Awards Policy". pakistan.gov.pk. Government of Pakistan. Archived from the original on 2 March 2007. Retrieved 22 August 2021.

[Awards_Policy-2] "Honours and awards Policy" (PDF). cabinet.gov.pk. Retrieved 22 August 2021.

[4] Majid Nizami, recipient of Nishan-i-Imtiaz Award, Published 27 July 2014, Retrieved 28 May 2016

[5] Nishan-e-Imtiaz for Faiz Ahmad Faiz on aaj.tv website, Retrieved 3 June 2016

[FOOTNOTEDinas_Sejarah_TNI_AD2017232-6] Dinas Sejarah TNI AD 2017, p. 232.

[FOOTNOTEDinas_Sejarah_TNI_AD2019248-250-7] Dinas Sejarah TNI AD 2019, p. 248-250.

[8] Usamah Hisyam (Ketua Tim Penyusun), Feisal Tanjung:Terbaik untuk rakyat, terbaik bagi ABRI, Jakarta: Dharmapena, 1999, hal.749.

[FOOTNOTEDinas_Sejarah_TNI_AD2011130-9] Dinas Sejarah TNI AD 2011, p. 130.

[Dileep_Kumar,_Nishan-e-Imtiaz1-10] Desai, Meghnad (2014). "Dilip Kumar's autobiography reveals his journey from Peshawar to Bombay". p. 1. Archived from the original on 28 March 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2017.

[Dilip_Kumar,_Nishan-e-Imtiaz2-11] BBC News (2014). "Indian media: Dilip Kumar's Pakistan home a heritage site". p. 1. Archived from the original on 28 March 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2017.

[Dilip_Kumar,_Nishan-e-Imtiaz3-12] The Hindu, National (2016). "Dilip Kumar's home in Pak. on verge of collapse". p. 1. Archived from the original on 13 December 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2016.

[Dilip_Kumar,_Nishan-e-Imtiaz4-13] India Today, PTI (2015). "Dilip Kumar's ancestral home in Pakistan to be turned into a museum". p. 1. Archived from the original on 28 March 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2017.

[14] Nishan-e-Imtiaz Award for Hakim Said on The Nation newspaper, Published 17 October 2015, Retrieved 10 January 2017

[15] Nishan-e-Imtiaz Award for Khurshid Ahmad (scholar) in 2011 on The Nation newspaper, Published 24 March 2011, Retrieved 24 January 2017

[Tribune-16] Nishan-e-Imtiaz Awards for both General Raheel Sharif and General Rashad Mahmood given by the President of Pakistan on The Express Tribune newspaper, Published 20 December 2013, Retrieved 10 January 2017

[17] "Senate of Pakistan". www.senate.gov.pk. Retrieved 18 January 2019.

[Dawn-18] "Recipients of civil, military awards". www.dawn.com.

[19] "Asma Jahangir, Junaid Jamshed, Afridi, Misbah among 141 nominated for Civil Awards". www.thenews.com.pk. Retrieved 31 December 2020.

[20] "Jansher Khan awarded with Nishan-e-Imtiaz". The Frontier Post.

[21] "President announces Civil Awards for citizens, foreigners". DAWN. 15 August 2023.

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v t e Pakistan honours and military decorations
Gallantry awards	Nishan-i-Haider Medal (Sign of the Lion; 1st highest award) Hilal-i-Jur'at Medal (Crescent of Courage; 2nd highest award) Sitara-i-Jur'at Medal (Star of Courage; 3rd highest award) Tamgha-i-Jur'at (Medal of Courage; 4th highest award) Imtiazi Sanad Medal (Mention in Despatches; 5th highest award)
Non-operational awards (without enemy engagement)	Sitara-e-Basalat (Star of Valour) Tamgha-i-Basalat (Medal of Valour) Tamgha-i-Khidmat (Class I) (Medal of Service; military) Tamgha-i-Khidmat (Class II) (Medal of Service; military) Tamgha-i-Khidmat (Class III) (Medal of Service; military)
Civilian military awards	Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Order of Excellence) Hilal-i-Imtiaz (Crescent of Excellence; civilian) Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence; civilian) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Medal of Excellence; civilian) Tamgha-i-Khidmat (Medal of Service; civilian)