Golden jubilee award recipients

Daily Dawn, Friday15 August 1997

KARACHI, Aug 14: At a graceful “Speaker Awards” ceremony held on the lawns of Sindh Assembly Building on Thursday on the occasion of Pakistan’s Golden Jubilee, the speaker of Sindh Assembly, Nawab Mirza, gave away awards to personalities who rendered remarkable services in their fields.

Sindh chief minister Liaquat Ali Jatoi, Nawab Mirza, and senior Sindh minister Dr Farooq Sattar distributed awards among the recipients.

Qari Abdul Waheed Sikandari and Qari Waheed Zafar Qasmi were given award for Husn-i-Qirat while Muniba Sheikh was given award for Naat Khwani. Syed Ishtiaq Azhar was given award for his services in the independence movement.

Ghinwa Bhutto, widow of Mir Murtaza Bhutto, was awarded special shield for her courage displayed following assassination of her husband. The award was jointly received by Ghinwa Bhutto and her daughter, Fatima.

In the field of judiciary and law, awards were given to Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Pakistan Justice Sajjad Ali Shah, Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid, Justice Fakhruddin G. Ibrahim and Justice Saleem Akhtar.

Among Politicians Dr Farooq Sattar, senior Sindh minister, Syed Jalal Mahmood Shah, deputy speaker of Sindh Assembly and grand son of G. M. Syed, Shoaib Bukhari, Qazi Khalid Ali, Waseem Akhtar, provincial ministers, were given awards.

In education, Dr Pirzada Qasim, Dr Abdul Wahab, Dr Nabi Bux Baloch, Riazuddin, and Prof Ehsan Rasheed, Hakeem Said were given awards. In science and technology, Dr Mumtazul Imam; in medical and surgery, Dr Adeebul Hasan Rizvi and Hakim Muhammad Said;

In literature, Ibne Safi, Shaukat Siddiqui, Dr Jamil Jalibi, Qamar Ali Abbasi, Baqar Rizvi, Shakil Ahmed Zia, and Hasina Moin; in journalism, Senator Ajmal Dehlvi, Ali Hasan, Majeed Abbasi, Mudassar Mirza, M. B. Naqvi, Habib Khan Ghori, Mehboob Ali Khan and Kamran Wajahat;

In press photography, Mujeebur Rehman and Ikram Mehdi; in poetry Gulnar Afreen, Sheikh Ayaz, Mohsin Bhopali and Tariq Sabzwari.

Mushtaq Ahmed Yusufi, humorist; Mirza Nazeer Baig (Nadeem), Safirullah Lehri, Talat Hussain, Shafi Muhammad and Ishrat Hashmi, screen artists; Arshe Munir and Qazi Wajid radio artists, Mehdi Hasan, Alan Faqir, Alamgir, Abida Parveen and Akhlaq Ahmed, singers; Hanif Muhammad, Roshan Khan, Islahuddin, Hussain Shah, Rashid Latif, sports.- PPI