The Pakistani players who received the Presidential Award on Independence Day

 Who are the Pakistani players who received the Presidential Award on Independence Day?

President of Pakistan Arif Alvi announced various civil awards for 253 national and foreign personalities on the occasion of 'Independence Day' on August 14, 14 sportspersons are also included in them.

They range from the great squash player of the past, Jahangir Khan, to Arshad Nadeem, who recently won the gold medal for Pakistan in the Commonwealth Games.

It should be noted that civil awards are given once a year by the government for excellent performance and excellent services in their respective fields and these people are awarded in a ceremony organized on the occasion of 'Pakistan Day' on March 23. will be awarded.

So which players were given the awards this time and who are they?

Among these names, everyone knows Jahangir Khan and Babar Azam, but among them there are many talented young people who have made their place in some time.

Among the players for whom these civil awards have been announced, Nishan Imtiaz has been awarded to Jahangir Khan, Satara Imtiaz to Babar Azam (Cricket) and Chaudhry Shafi Hussain (Kabaddi), Arshad Nadeem (Athletics), Noah Dastgir Butt (Weightlifting), Sarbaz Khan (Mountaineering), Abdul Kareem (Mountaineering), Shahida Abbasi (Karate), Amina Wali (Skiing), Irfan Mehsud (Martial Arts), Masood Jan (Blind Cricket), Ahsan Ramzan (Snooker) Presidential Pride of Performance While Bisma Maruf (Cricket) and Shafiq Ahmed Chishti (Kabaddi) have been given the medal of distinction.

Presidential Award for Excellence Pride of Performance Award

Bisma Maroof (Cricketer)

Bisma Maroof started her career in December 2006. She has scored 2602 runs in 108 ODIs with 14 half-centuries, with the best individual score being 99. She is the highest run-scorer in Women's One Day Internationals without a century. She has also taken 44 wickets.

Incidentally, his number of T20 International matches is also 108 in which he has scored 2225 runs including 11 half-centuries and has taken 36 wickets. She is the highest run-scorer for Pakistan in this format.

In the year 2019, he was appointed as the captain of the Pakistani team. Apart from this, she was also appointed as the captain of the ICC Development Squad.

Nooh Dastgir Butt (Weightlifter)

Pakistan's 24-year-old weightlifter Muhammad Nooh Dastgir Butt grabbed the headlines recently when he won the country's first gold medal at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, UK.

Nooh not only won the gold medal but also set a new Commonwealth Games record by lifting a total of 405 kg against weightlifters above 109 kg.

It was the second time in the history of the Commonwealth Games that a Pakistani weightlifter had won a gold medal. Earlier in 2006, Shujauddin Malik won this title in the 85 kg weight category in the competitions held in Melbourne.

Nooh hails from Gujranwala, a city famous for wrestling, kabaddi and weightlifting, and inherited his passion for weightlifting.

24-year-old Nooh Dastgir Butt's father, Ghulam Dastgir Butt, is a five-time South Asian Games gold medalist and record holder who also won the honor of being the national champion eighteen times. Now his full attention is focused on his sons.

Arshad Nadeem (Athletics)

Arshad Nadeem, unknown until a few years ago, has now become the new superstar of Pakistan. Arshad Nadeem, who set a Games record for javelin throw in the same week at Commonwealth Games and Islamic Solidarity Games, hails from Chak No. 101-15L, a village near Mian Chinnu.

Arshad Nadeem has been representing Pakistan in international competitions for the last six years, but it was not until the year 2019 that he hit the headlines.

In 2016, he won a bronze medal at the South Asian Games in Guwahati, India, and he also came third in the Islamic Games in Baku the following year. He won a bronze medal in the 2018 Asian Games but finished eighth in the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast the same year.

The turning point of Arshad Nadeem's career came at the South Asian Games held in Nepal in 2019, where he not only set a new record in the Games by throwing the pikestaff at a distance of86.29 measures, but also qualified for the Tokyo Olympics. They were successful.

At the Tokyo Olympics, he could not go beyond 84.62 meters and had to settle for fifth place, but he made up for it at the Commonwealth Games.

Ahsan Ramzan (Snooker)

16-year-old Ahsan Ramzan from Pakistan is the world's youngest World Amateur Snooker Champion.

Ahsan Ramzan defeated the more experienced Iranian player Amir Sarkosh by six frames to five in the finals of the International Billiards Snooker Federation World Snooker Championship held in Doha, the capital of Qatar, in March this year.

Shahida Abbasi (Karate)

Shahida Abbasi won the first gold medal for Pakistan at the 13th South Asian Games in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Shahida Abbasi belongs to the Hazara community and started the sport in 2005.

Belonging to a middle-class family in Quetta, Shahida's father has retired from the police. Shahida Abbasi's other two sisters are also karate players, one of whom is Sabra, who has won a gold medal in the National Games.

Abdul Kareem (climber, porter)

Muhammad Kareem, associated with lesser-known adventure tourism in Pakistan, is known as 'Little Kareem'.

At least four international films have been made on Little Cream which have won various awards. He helped every major mountaineer of the world in climbing the difficult mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan in the seventies, eighties and nineties.

Karar Hydari, secretary of the Alpine Club of Pakistan, told journalist Muhammad Zubair Khan that 'Little Karim was famous for carrying more than his weight. He knows the secrets of high mountains and is a perfect companion for any mountaineer. There was a time when they were not selected. Then came a time when the climbers waited for Little Cream to give them time.'

Sarbaz Khan: Mountaineer

Pakistani mountaineer Sarbaz Khan is the first Pakistani who has climbed ten peaks of 8,000 meters in the world.

Sarbaz Khan, 35, hailing from central Hunza, Gilgit-Baltistan, recently achieved this honor by climbing the world's third-highest peak, Kenchenjunga, in Nepal.

Sarbaz Khan had climbed 2, Naga Parbat, Broad Peak, Lohatse, Manaslu Peak, Annapurna, Mount Everest, Gesherbaram 2 and Daulagiri before climbing this peak.

Sarbaz Khan has been a part of Pakistan's volleyball team while also playing netball for Gilgit-Baltistan.

Irfan Mehsood (Martial Arts)

Muhammad Irfan Mehsood, who migrated from South Waziristan, has set many world records in the field of martial arts and added his name to the Guinness Book of World Records.

These include 87 knee kicks in a minute while standing on one leg, forty pound weight on the waist, lifting one leg in the air, and doing the most push-ups in one minute on the knuckles, the knuckles. , including the honor of doing push-ups with one foot in the air and one on the ground.

The Guinness Book of World Records also describes Irfan Mehsud as a 'serial record breaker'.

In 2009, when 'Operation Rah Najat' started in South Waziristan, he had to move to Dera Ismail Khan along with his family. Now he also runs a locally based martial arts academy in Dera Ismail Khan where most of the players are victims of Waziristan.

Irfan Mehsud holds a Master's degree in Fine Arts. Prior to this, he has also been a National Champion in Kung Fu, apart from this he has also received many other awards.