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Two Mumbai Parsi Doctors to Receive Pakistan’s Highest Civilian Award
Two doctors from Mumbai are being given a very important award by Pakistan.
They belong to the Parsi community.
One doctor was a physician, and the other was a radiologist.
The award is called the Nishan-e-Imtiaz.
It is Pakistan’s highest civilian award.
The doctors treated or cared for Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
They kept the details of his terminal illness secret.
Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal announced their nominations on August 14.
Two doctors from Mumbai’s Parsi community will receive Pakistan’s Nishan-e-Imtiaz award.
The doctors are a physician and a radiologist.
They were nominated for keeping Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s terminal illness secret.
Pakistan Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal announced the nominations on X.
The civilian and military honors were announced on August 14.
- Who
- Two Mumbai doctors from the Parsi community, a physician and a radiologist, were nominated by Pakistan Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal.
- What
- They will receive the Nishan-e-Imtiaz, Pakistan’s highest civilian award.
- Where
- The doctors are from Mumbai, and the announcement was made from Pakistan.
- When
- The nominations were announced on August 14; no year was specified.
- Why
- They were honored for faithfully keeping Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s terminal illness secret.
Key facts
- Award
- Nishan-e-Imtiaz
- Award status
- Pakistan’s highest civilian award
- Recipients
- Two doctors: a physician and a radiologist
- Community
- Mumbai’s Parsi community
- Honoree-related service
- Keeping Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s terminal illness secret
- Announcer
- Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal
- Announcement date
- August 14
Quotes
Ahsan Iqbal
Planning Minister and Chairman of the Awards Committee
“I feel honoured to have had the privilege, as Chairman of the Awards Committee, of nominating for the Nishan-e-Imtiaz two remarkable doctors, a physician and a radiologist, both members of Bombay's Parsi community, who faithfully guarded the secret of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah's terminal illness”
thehansindia.com
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