Nishan-e-Pakistan
Recipients of the Tamgha-e-Pakistan
Table:
Year

Name

Field

Country

1959
Sartaj Aziz
Economics
Pakistan

1965
Rashid Ahmed
Naval officer
Pakistan

1967
Hermanegild Marcos Antonio Drago
Community service
Pakistan

1968
Aslam Azhar[35]
Television Broadcasting
Pakistan

1971
Ahmed Hussain A Kazi
Public Service
Pakistan

1987
Neerja Harish Bhanot
Public Service
India

2012
Emmanuel Nicholas
Community (Education)
Sri Lanka

2012
Li Xiaolin[25]
Community (Investment)
China

2018
Muhammad Ayhan Murtaza
Community (Education)
Pakistan

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Sartaj Aziz ( Urdu : سرتاج عزيز ; born 7 February 1929 ) is an economist and a strategist , having previously served as the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of Pakistan , member of the federal cabinet as the de facto Minister for Foreign Affairs , a Federal Senator as well as the National Security Advisor . Born in north-western British India , as a student Aziz was an activist in the Pakistan Movement . Aziz went on to study economics at Punjab University and later studied public administration at Harvard Kennedy School . He served as a civil servant from 1952 to 1971 within Pakistan 's federal government , also serving as the joint secretary in the planning commission between 1967 and 1971 . In 1971 , Aziz joined the Food and Agriculture Organization and served as its Director of Commodities , only to move to the International Fund for Agricultural Development where he served as the Assistant President , Policy and Planning between December 1977 to April 1984 . Aziz returned to Pakistan in 1984 and served as a junior minister for Agriculture and Food Security until 1988 under the conservative Junejo administration . He was elected to the Senate of Pakistan in 1988 and re-elected in 1993 from the center-right PML-N , and served in both Sharif administrations first as the Minister of Finance from August 1990 to June 1993 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from August 1998 until 1999 coup d'état . He is noted as the only cabinet member who opposed the decision of conducting nuclear tests in response to India , citing 'economic reasons ' . During his tenure as the Finance Minister he was noted a strong proponent of economic liberalization . In 2004 , he moved to academia , and became the vice-chancellor of Beaconhouse National University ; he also taught at economics at the university . Aziz authored Between Dreams and Realities , which was published in 2009 . He remained with the university until 2013 , when he joined the Nawaz Sharif 's third administration as an advisor in-charge of country 's foreign policy ; he also served as the National Security Advisor between 2013 and 2015 .
Economics ( /ɛkəˈnɒmɪks , iːkə-/ ) is the social science that studies how individuals , organizations , and societies manage the scarce resources under their control for the satisfaction of their needs and desires . Economics focuses on the behavior and interactions of economic agents and how those interactions work particularly and as a whole . Microeconomics analyzes individual agents , industries and markets , their interactions , and the outcomes of their interactions . Individual agents may include , for example , households , firms , buyers , and sellers . Macroeconomics analyzes the entire economy ( meaning aggregated production , consumption , saving , and investment ) and issues affecting it , including unemployment of resources ( labor , capital , and land ) , inflation , economic growth , and the public policies that address these issues ( monetary , fiscal , and other policies ) . See glossary of economics . Other broad distinctions within economics include those between positive economics , describing what is , and normative economics , advocating what ought to be ; between economic theory and applied economics ; between rational and behavioural economics ; and between mainstream economics and heterodox economics . Economic analysis can be applied throughout society , in real estate , business , finance , health care , and government . Economic analysis is sometimes also applied to such diverse subjects as crime , education , the family , law , politics , religion , social institutions , war , science , and the environment .
Pakistan , [ b ] officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan , [ c ] is a country in South Asia . It is the world 's sixth-most populous country with a population exceeding 207.8 million . In area , it is the 33rd-largest country , spanning 881,913 square kilometres ( 340,509 square miles ) . Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre ( 650-mile ) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east , Afghanistan to the west , Iran to the southwest , and China in the northeast . It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan 's Wakhan Corridor in the northwest , and also shares a maritime border with Oman . The territory that now constitutes Pakistan was the site of several ancient cultures and intertwined with the history of the broader Indian subcontinent . The ancient history involves the Neolithic site of Mehrgarh and the Bronze Age Indus Valley Civilisation , and was later home to kingdoms ruled by people of different faiths and cultures , including Hindus , Indo-Greeks , Muslims , Turco-Mongols , Afghans and Sikhs . The area has been ruled by numerous empires and dynasties , including the Persian Achaemenid Empire , Alexander III of Macedon , the Seleucid Empire , the Indian Maurya Empire , the Gupta Empire , the Arab Umayyad Caliphate , the Delhi Sultanate , the Mongol Empire , the Mughal Empire , the Afghan Durrani Empire , the Sikh Empire ( partially ) and , most recently , the British Indian Empire . Pakistan is the only country to have been created in the name of Islam . It is an ethnically and linguistically diverse country , with similarly diverse geography and wildlife . Initially a dominion , Pakistan adopted a constitution in 1956 , becoming an Islamic republic . An ethnic civil war and Indian military intervention in 1971 resulted in the secession of East Pakistan as the new country of Bangladesh .
Rear-Admiral Rashid Ahmed ( Urdu : رشيد احمد ; b . 1918-2005 ) , SK , TQA , was a two-star rank admiral in the Pakistan Navy , who is known for serving as Chief of Staff under Commander in Chief Vice-Admiral Muzaffar Hassan and led the Navy during the fateful events in the war with India in 1971 .
Aslam Azhar ( Urdu : اسلم اظہر ; September 1932 - 29 December 2015 ) was a Pakistan Television executive , considered to be the father of Pakistan Television . He was the first Chairman and Managing Director of PTV first appointed during Ayub Khan government in November 1964 when PTV Lahore Center first started broadcasting and went on the air . He was awarded the Tamgha-i-Pakistan ( Medal of Pakistan ) for his pioneering services in the television broadcasting field by the President of Pakistan .
Ahmed Hussain A. Kazi Tamgha-e-Pakistan ( Medal of Pakistan ) Award ( 15 August 1920 - 7 January 2007 ) was a civil servant of Pakistan and senior advocate of the Pakistan Supreme Court , who shaped the internal revenue , economic and industrialization policies during the 1970s .
Neerja Bhanot , Ashoka Chakra ( 7 September 1963 - 5 September 1986 ) was an Indian head purser who died while saving passengers on Pan Am Flight 73 which had been hijacked by terrorists during a stopover in Karachi , Pakistan , on 5 September 1986 . Posthumously , she became the youngest recipient of India 's highest peacetime gallantry , the Ashok Chakra Award , as well as several other accolades from the government of Pakistan and the United States . She was shot while helping passengers escape through the emergency exits . Her life and heroism inspired the biopic Neerja , released in 2016 and directed by Ram Madhvani .
India ( Hindi : Bhārat ) , officially the Republic of India ( Hindi : Bhārat Gaṇarājya ) , is a country in South Asia . It is the seventh-largest country by area , the second-most populous country , and the most populous democracy in the world . Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south , the Arabian Sea on the southwest , and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast , it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west ; [ e ] China , Nepal , and Bhutan to the north ; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east . In the Indian Ocean , India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives ; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia . Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago . Their long occupation , initially in varying forms of isolation as hunter-gatherers , has made the region highly diverse , second only to Africa in human genetic diversity . Settled life emerged on the subcontinent in the western margins of the Indus river basin 9,000 years ago , evolving gradually into the Indus Valley Civilisation of the third millennium BCE . By 1200 BCE , an archaic form of Sanskrit , an Indo-European language , had diffused into India from the northwest , unfolding as the language of the Rigveda , and recording the dawning of Hinduism in India . The Dravidian languages of India were supplanted in the northern regions . By 400 BCE , stratification and exclusion by caste had emerged within Hinduism , and Buddhism and Jainism had arisen , proclaiming social orders unlinked to heredity . Early political consolidations gave rise to the loose-knit Maurya and Gupta Empires based in the Ganges Basin . Their collective era was suffused with wide-ranging creativity , but also marked by the declining status of women , and the incorporation of untouchability into an organised system of belief .
Emmanuel Nicholas is a Sri Lankan Tamil , who was born in Sri Lanka on 2 January 1939 . Nicholas , a De La Salle Christian Brother , was 27 when he left Sri Lanka for Pakistan , to teach mathematics and science at La Salle High School Multan . He taught there until 1968 . His students included Yousuf Raza Gillani who become prime minister of Pakistan in March 2008 . As a De La Salle Brother , he considers his mission in life is to educate the poor in the slums and rural outbacks . When St. Vincents school , in Mian Channu on the Multan-Lahore road , wanted a principal in 1968 , Nicholas volunteered for the job . Mian Channu was a Christian village of about 600 families and the school was built for their children . Nicholas also considered former President Zia ul-Haq to be a close friend . He also attended Fordham University in New York City , where he earned a master 's degree in counseling . In 1979 , he left Pakistan to return to his native Sri Lanka . The President of Pakistan conferred the civil award of Tamgha-e-Imtiaz ( Medal of Pakistan ) on Bro . Emmanuel in recognition of his outstanding and meritorious services for the education sector in Pakistan .
Sri Lanka ( UK : /sri ˈlæŋkə , ʃriː -/ , US : /- ˈlɑːŋkə/ ( listen ) ; Sinhala : ශ්‍රී ලංකා Śrī Laṃkā ; Tamil : இலங்கை Ilaṅkai ) , officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka , is an island country in South Asia , located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea . The island is geographically separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait . The legislative capital , Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte , is a suburb of the commercial capital and largest city , Colombo . Sri Lanka 's documented history spans 3,000 years , with evidence of pre-historic human settlements dating back to at least 125,000 years . It has a rich cultural heritage , and the first known Buddhist writings of Sri Lanka , the Pāli Canon , date back to the Fourth Buddhist council in 29 BC . Its geographic location and deep harbours made it of great strategic importance from the time of the ancient Silk Road through to the modern Maritime Silk Road . Sri Lanka was known in the west and from the beginning of British colonial rule as Ceylon ( /sɪˈlɒn/ , US also /seɪˈlɒn/ ) . A nationalist political movement arose in the country in the early 20th century to obtain political independence , which was granted in 1948 ; the country became a republic and adopted its current name in 1972 . Sri Lanka 's recent history has been marred by a 26-year civil war , which ended decisively when the Sri Lanka Armed Forces defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) in 2009 . The current constitution stipulates the political system as a republic and a unitary state governed by a semi-presidential system . It has had a long history of international engagement , as a founding member of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation ( SAARC ) , and a member of the United Nations , the Commonwealth of Nations , the G77 , and the Non-Aligned Movement . Along with the Maldives , Sri Lanka is one of only two South Asian countries rated high on the Human Development Index ( HDI ) , with its HDI rating and per capita income the highest among South Asian nations .
Li Xiaolin ( Chinese : 李小琳 ; born June 1961 ) is a Chinese businesswoman , currently serving as vice-president of the China Datang Corporation , a state-owned power generation enterprise . She is the former CEO of China Power International Development ( SEHK : 2380 ) . She is the only daughter of former Chinese Premier Li Peng and his wife Zhu Lin . She was trained as a power generation engineer at Tsinghua University .
China ( Chinese : 中国 ; pinyin : Zhōngguó ) , officially the People 's Republic of China ( PRC ) , is a country in East Asia and is the world 's most populous country , with a population of around 1.428 billion in 2017 . Covering approximately 9,600,000 square kilometers ( 3,700,000 sq mi ) , it is the third largest country by area . [ j ] Governed by the Communist Party of China , the state exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces , [ k ] five autonomous regions , four direct-controlled municipalities ( Beijing , Tianjin , Shanghai , and Chongqing ) , and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau . China emerged as one of the world 's first civilizations , in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain . For millennia , China 's political system was based on hereditary monarchies , or dynasties , beginning with the semi-mythical Xia dynasty in 21st century BCE . Since then , China has expanded , fractured , and re-unified numerous times . In the 3rd century BCE , the Qin reunited core China and established the first Chinese empire . The succeeding Han dynasty , which ruled from 206 BCE until 220 CE , saw some of the most advanced technology at that time , including papermaking and the compass , along with agricultural and medical improvements . The invention of gunpowder and movable type in the Tang dynasty ( 618-907 ) and Northern Song ( 960-1127 ) completed the Four Great Inventions . Tang culture spread widely in Asia , as the new Silk Route brought traders to as far as Mesopotamia and the Horn of Africa . Dynastic rule ended in 1912 with the Xinhai Revolution , when the Republic of China ( ROC ) replaced the Qing dynasty . China , as a whole , was ravaged by feudal warlordism and Japan during World War II .