{"id":44511,"date":"2024-08-10T17:11:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T12:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=44511"},"modified":"2024-08-10T17:11:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T12:11:37","slug":"president-to-confers-arshad-nadeem-with-hilal-e-imtiaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/president-to-confers-arshad-nadeem-with-hilal-e-imtiaz\/","title":{"rendered":"President to confers Arshad Nadeem with Hilal-e-Imtiaz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has announced the awarding of Hilal-i-Imtiaz, the second-highest civilian award, to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/nation-celebrates-arshad-nadeems-victory-govt-offers-rewards-and-cash-prizes\/\">javelin champion Arshad Nadeem<\/a> for his record-breaking achievement in the Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The President will confer the civil award upon Arshad Nadeem under Article 259 (2) of the Constitution during a special ceremony to be held in recognition of his prominent performance in sports,\u00a0 Aiwan-e-Sadr said in a press release on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Under the constitutional provision, the president can confer Pakistani citizens with civil awards in recognition of their meritorious services in different fields of life.<\/p>\n<p>Upon the President\u2019s directive, a letter had been dispatched by the Aiwan-e-Sadr to the Cabinet Division requesting for a Hilal-i-Imtiaz for Nadeem.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, President Zardari said that Arshad Nadeem, with his brilliant performance, had made the nation proud in the field of sports. &#8220;Nadeem\u2019s marvelous achievement at the international level brought laurels to the nation. He had raised the name of the country in athletics,&#8221; President House said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Arshad Nadeem on Thursday night in Paris claimed a historic gold medal in javelin throw breaking the Summer Games record with a 92.95m throw and becoming Pakistan&#8217;s only individual and athletics medal in Olympics history.<\/p>\n<p>Nadeem, 27, won the Olympic men\u2019s javelin title beating defending champion Neeraj Chopra of India, forcing the packed-to-capacity crowd to give him a standing ovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has announced the awarding of Hilal-i-Imtiaz, the second-highest civilian award, to javelin champion Arshad Nadeem for his record-breaking achievement in the Paris Olympics. The President will confer the civil award upon Arshad Nadeem under Article 259 (2) of the Constitution during a special ceremony to be held in recognition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":44521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,6],"tags":[8586,9250],"class_list":["post-44511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-arshad-nadeem","tag-hilal-e-imtiaz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44522,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44511\/revisions\/44522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}