Hilal-i-Imtiaz
Hilal-i-Imtiaz | |
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![]() Hilal-i-Imtiaz | |
Awarded by the Sovereign, on the advice of the Government | |
Type | Award |
Eligibility | Pakistani or Foreign citizen |
Awarded for | The highest degree of service to the state, and for services to international diplomacy. |
Status | Currently constituted |
Sovereign | President of Pakistan |
Sovereign | Prime minister of Pakistan |
Grades | 5 grade: Star (1st Class) Badge (Second Class) Ribbon (military only) Collar Chain (4th class) Medal (5th Class)[1] |
Statistics | |
First induction | 19 March 1957 |
Precedence | |
Next (higher) | Nishan-e-Imtiaz |
Next (lower) | Sitara-i-Imtiaz |
![]() Ribbons: military (only) |
The Hilal-i-Imtiaz[2] (English: Crescent of Excellence; Urdu: ہلال امتیاز, Hilāl-i Imtiyāz) is the second highest civilian award and honour given to both civilians and military officers of the Pakistan armed forces by the Government of Pakistan. It recognises individuals who have made an "especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of Pakistan, world peace, cultural or other significant public endeavors". It is a civilian award, and not limited to the citizens of Pakistan.
The honour is restricted to individuals who have made outstanding contributions in their fields that led to international recognition to the State. It is awarded in the fields of literature, arts, sports, medicine, and science for civilians. It is announced every year on Independence Day, August 14, and given on Pakistan Day, March 23, by the President of Pakistan. For officers in the military, it is given for distinguished service, and is also the highest medal awarded to those at the rank of Major General or Lieutenant General (Army), Air Vice-Marshals or Air Marshals (Air Force) and Rear-Admiral or Vice-Admiral (Navy, Coast Guard, and Marines). Parliament's committee for Award and Recognition Services for State of Pakistan selects the names of individuals and sends their report to the Prime Minister; on his advice, the President makes the award in a ceremony that is broadcast by the PTV. The award is usually given to individuals, not groups, because the purpose of the award is to recognise the recipients' individual contributions.
The award is a disc of golden Jasminum between the five points of a pure gold star. The star has additional bright Jasminum; in its centre there is a green emerald with a golden crescent in its centre.
A special grade of the medal has a larger execution of the same medal design worn as a star on the left of the chest. In addition, it is worn as a sash on the right shoulder, with its rosette (yellow with white for civilians and green for military officers) with white and yellow edge, bearing the central disc of the medal at its center) resting on the left hip. At the ceremony, both medals can be worn at the same time according to their achievements. The medal is suspended on a ribbon, dark green with a light yellow and white central stripe and white edge stripes.
List of recipients
Military
- Air Chief Marshal Anwar Shamim
- Gen Muhammad Musa Khan
- Gen Raheel Sharif
- Gen Shamim Alam Khan
- Gen Rashad Mahmood
- Gen Tariq Majid
- Lt-Gen(then Major)Akhtar Abdur Rahman
- Lt Gen Hamid Gul
- Lt Gen Muhammad Aslam Shah
- Lt-Gen Muhammad Afzal Janjua
- Lt-Gen Masood Aslam
- Lt-Gen Faiz Jilani
- Lt-Gen Khalid Maqbool
- Lt-Gen Zarrar Azim
- Lt-Gen Syed Arif Hassan
- Lt-Gen Rizwan Akhtar
- Lt-Gen Shahid Aziz
- Lt-Gen Shahid Hamid
- Lt-Gen Masood Perwaiz
- Lt.Gen Muhammad Safdar
- Lt.Gen Dr. Ghulam Safdar Butt
- Maj-Gen Pervez Akmal
- Maj-Gen Tajul Haq
- Maj Gen Muhammad Afzal, HI(M)
- Maj-Gen Kaizad Maneck Sopariwala
- Maj-Gen Mohammad Iqbal Akbar Khan
- Maj-Gen Tariq Hamid
- Maj-Gen Asif Duraiz
- Maj-Gen Fahim Akhtar Khan
- Maj-Gen Ali Baz
- Maj-Gen Shahid Saddiq Tirmizey
- Maj-Gen Khalid Munir Khan
- Maj-Gen Javed Alam Khan
- Maj-Gen Syed Abdul Ahad Najmi
- Maj-Gen Syed Khalid Amir Jaffery
- Maj-Gen Nusrat Naeem
- Maj-Gen Asif Ali
- Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan Khan
- Maj-Gen Tahir Mahmood Malik
- Maj-Gen Shahid Iqbal
- Maj-Gen Muhammad Siddique
- Maj-Gen Jamshed Ayaz Khan
- Maj-Gen Muhammad Akram Sahi
- Maj-Gen Ahmad Shuja Pasha
- Maj-Gen Muhammad Farooq
- Maj-Gen Muhammad Tahir Saeed
- Maj-Gen Masood Hasan
- Maj-Gen Muhammad Mustafa Khan
- Maj-Gen Ayyaz Saleem Rana
- Maj-Gen Naeem Khalid Lodhi
- Maj-Gen Qasim Qureshi
- Maj-Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa
- Maj-Gen Bilal Omer Khan
- Maj-Gen Imtiaz Ahmad
- Maj-Gen Nasim Ul Majeed
- Maj-Gen Badshah Khan
- Maj-Gen Javed Khan
- Maj-Gen Abdul Malik
- Maj-Gen Saeed Ullah Khan
- Maj-Gen Khalid Munir Khan
- Maj-Gen Syed Muhammad Azam
- Air Marshal Sarfraz Arshad Toor
- Air Marshal Sarfraz Arshad Toor
- Air Marshal Keleem Saadat
- Air Vice-Marshal Javed Zafar Pasha
- Air Vice-Marshal Arshad Rashid Sethi
- Air Vice-Marshal Muhammad Ateeb Siddiqui
- Air Vice-Marshal Hifazat Ullah Khan
- Air Vice-Marshal M. Ikram Ullah Bhatti
- Vice Admiral Iftikahr Ahmed
- Vice Admiral Asaf Humayun
- Rear Admiral Syed Ahmed Baqar
- Rear Admiral Taj Mohammad Khattak
- Rear Admiral Shahid Karimullah
- Rear Admiral Irfan Ahmed
- Rear Admiral Noman Bashi
- Capt Danish Waseem Butt
Civilian
- Begum Kulsum Saifullah Khan (2007)
- Gohar Ejaz (2012) (For Public Service)
- Imran Khan 1992
- Abida Parveen 2012
- Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy 2012
- Fauzia Wahab 2012
- Ansar Burney 2012
- Fatima Surayya Bajia 2012
- Anwar Maqsood 2014
- Ausaf Ali 2013
- Zia Mohyeddin 2012
- Shoaib Sultan Khan
- Abdul Hafeez Kardar 2012 (cricket player)
- Fazal Mahmood 2012 (cricket player)
- Masood Khan 2012
- Ansar Pervaiz 2012
- Ahmed Chinoy 2012
- Azhar Abbas 2012
- Hamid Mir 2012 (TV Show host)
- Ahmed Bilal 2012
- Jamiluddin Aali 2004
- Kauser Abdulla Malik
- Ishfaq Ahmad 1995
- Masud Ahmad 1998
- Ghulam Dastagir Alam 1983
- Iftikhar Arif 2005
- Masood Aslam 2010
- Patras Bokhari* 2003 (scholar)
- Abdur Rahman Chughtai 1960 (painter artist)
- Ahmad Hasan Dani 2000
- Ahmad Faraz* (poet and scholar)
- Nasir Jamshed
- Fayyazuddin 2000
- Ismail Gulgee (Artist)
- Mohammad Haleem 1996
- Muhammad Hamidullah 1985
- Arif Hasan 2001
- Mehdi Hassan
- Bilquis Edhi
- Javed Iqbal 2004 (judge, Allama Iqbal's son)[3]
- Ishrat Hussain 2003 (economist)
- Asma Jahangir 2010
- Jameel Jalibi
- Hafeez Jalandhri (writer of Pakistani National Anthem) and a poet[4]
- Shahid Karimullah
- Abdul Qadeer Khan 1989 (nuclear scientist)
- Akhtar Hameed Khan1996
- Jahangir Khan (squash player-sports)
- Munir Ahmad Khan 1989
- Maliha Lodhi 2002
- Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary 2007
- Muhammad Nawaz
- Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi (scholar) (2002)[5]
- Mushtaq Ahmed Baig 2006
- Noel Israel Khokhar 2011
- Julian Peter
- Bano Qudsia (scholar)
- Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi (scholar)
- Khalil Qureshi 2003
- Atta ur Rahman 1998 (scientist)
- Riazuddin 1980 and 1999
- Princess Sarvath al-Hassan 2002
- Annemarie Schimmel
- Tasneem M. Shah 1998
- Muhammad Raziuddin Siddiqui 1981
- Salimuzzaman Siddiqui 1980
- Fakhar Zaman 2008 (scholar)
- Muhammad Suhail Zubairy 2000
- Sohail Malik 2015
- Tahir Javid Khan 2015
- Aamir Riaz 2015
- Muhammad Asghar 2015
- Athar Ali 2004
- Josh Malihabadi (Poet) 2012 [6]
- Khalid Abbas Dar (2012) (TV comedian)[7]
See also
References
- ^ All these items are usually given all together. Only military officers from the Pakistan Defence Forces are awarded the ribbon which is attached to their uniform.
- ^ Also transliterated as Hilal-e-Imtiaz.
- ^ http://www.dawn.com/news/1210802, Justice Javed Iqbal's Hilal-i-Imtiaz award info on Dawn, Karaci newspaper, Retrieved 30 April 2016
- ^ http://www.pakpost.gov.pk/philately/stamps2001/abul_asar_hafeez_jalandhri.html, Hafeez Jalandhri's Award info on the Pakistan Post Office website, Retrieved 16 April 2016
- ^ http://www.dawn.com/news/27371/president-gives-away-civil-military-awards, Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi's Hilal-i-Imtiaz Award info listed on Dawn newspaper, Published 24 March 2002, Retrieved 16 Nov 2016
- ^ http://tribune.com.pk/story/421848/recognising-excellence-manto-among-192-recipients-of-top-civil-awards/, Hilal-i-Imtiaz Award (2012) for Josh Malihabadi on The Tribune International newspaper, Retrieved 22 Feb 2016
- ^ http://tribune.com.pk/story/421848/recognising-excellence-manto-among-192-recipients-of-top-civil-awards/, Khalid Abbas Dar's Hilal-i-Imtiaz Award (2012) info on The Express Tribune newspaper, Published 14 Aug 2012, Retrieved 20 April 2016