{"id":86814,"date":"2026-08-12T11:21:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T11:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/?p=86814"},"modified":"2026-08-12T11:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T11:21:20","slug":"president-confers-nishan-e-imtiaz-military-upon-general-syed-aamer-raza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/president-confers-nishan-e-imtiaz-military-upon-general-syed-aamer-raza\/","title":{"rendered":"President confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Military) upon General Syed Aamer Raza"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>CNSC honoured for meritorious contributions, outstanding professional acumen and distinguished services to Pakistan\u2019s defence and security<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><strong>ISLAMABAD:<\/strong> President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday conferred the prestigious Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Military) upon General Syed Aamer Raza, HI (M), S Bt, Commander National Strategic Command (CNSC), in recognition of his meritorious contributions, outstanding professional acumen and distinguished services towards the defence and security of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Military) upon General Syed Aamer Raza\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vU5GxMJYiGg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The honour was conferred at a Special Investiture Ceremony held at Aiwan-e-Sadr, attended by Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, Chairman Senate Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar and senior military leadership.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also in attendance were Chief of Army Staff and Chief of Defence Forces (COAS &amp; CDF) Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, NI (M), HJ; Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Naveed Ashraf, NI, NI (M), T Bt; Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu, NI (M), HJ; members of the Federal Cabinet and Parliament, and members of the diplomatic community.<\/p>\n<p>The Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Military) was awarded to General Syed Aamer Raza in recognition of his distinguished services, professional excellence and contributions to safeguarding Pakistan\u2019s national defence and security.<\/p>\n<p>Later, General Syed Aamer Raza paid a courtesy call on President Asif Ali Zardari at Aiwan-e-Sadr.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, the President conveyed his best wishes to General Syed Aamer Raza for success in his future responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-86816\" src=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/HPc9z61bcAAy0uc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/HPc9z61bcAAy0uc.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/HPc9z61bcAAy0uc-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/HPc9z61bcAAy0uc-1024x530.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/HPc9z61bcAAy0uc-768x398.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/HPc9z61bcAAy0uc-811x420.jpg 811w, https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/HPc9z61bcAAy0uc-150x78.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/HPc9z61bcAAy0uc-696x361.jpg 696w, https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/HPc9z61bcAAy0uc-1068x553.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNSC honoured for meritorious contributions, outstanding professional acumen and distinguished services to Pakistan\u2019s defence and security ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday conferred the prestigious Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Military) upon General Syed Aamer Raza, HI (M), S Bt, Commander National Strategic Command (CNSC), in recognition of his meritorious contributions, outstanding professional acumen and distinguished services towards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":86815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86817,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86814\/revisions\/86817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thediplomat.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}