Founding Editor of Pakistaniat.com, our very own Dr. Adil Najam has just been awarded the Sitara-i-Imtiaz by the government of Pakistan for his contribution and public service in the field of environment and development policy.
Adil is known to all of us as the founder of this blog, but his full time work is as the Frederick S. Pardee Professor of Global Public Policy and the Director of the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University. At Boston University he also serves as a Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment.
A world expert on matters related to environment and development, and specially on global climate change – he was part of the team of authors that wrote the IPCC reports, work for which the IPCC was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize – for us, he remains the creator of Pakistaniat.com (here, here, here). And we are delighted to see this honor being given to him.
Pakistan’s civil awards are announced by the President of Pakistan every year Independence Day (Aug 14) every year and then awarded on the following Pakistan Day (March 23). Like always, the list of award winners includes Pakistanis and those who have contributed to Pakistan in many areas of expertise. The full list of award winners for this year can be seen here. Some of the interesting and important people who were given Civil Decorations this year, in addition to Adil Najam, include: Bano Qudsia (Hilal-i-Imtiaz), Asma Jahangir (Hilal-i-Imtiaz), Prof. Ayesha Jalal (Sitara-i-Imtiaz), Prof. Hasan Askari (Sitara-i-Imtiaz), F.E.Chaudhry (Sitara-i-Imtiaz), Jamil Naqsh (Sitara-i-Imtiaz), Javed Ahmed Ghamidi (Sitara-i-Imtiaz), Prof. Rasul Bakhsh Rais (Sitara-i-Imtiaz), Allama Talib Johri (Sitara-i-Imtiaz), Hanif Ramay (Sitara-i-Imtiaz), Fehmida Riaz (Literature – Pride of Performance), Masud Mufti (Literature – Pride of Performance), Younus Khan (Cricket – Pride of Performance), Shahid Khan Afridi (Cricket – Pride of Performance), Zakauddin (Hockey – Pride of Performance), and many more.
On behalf of all of our readership, I want to congratulate Adil on this honor. Well done Adil Bhai from all of us!
Congrats Adil for recognition of your effort for the green environment. Though I doubt that Zardari would have any idea why were you selected.
I wonder how your efforts would be useful for Pakistan?
Dear Najam Sahib
It is indeed a wonderful news for a person like me who has been striving to see, all along, that there are no sycophants and ‘me-toos’ awarded (it so common to so these prizes being floundered and wasted on no-gooders). I congratulate you on a meritorious achievement. Please keep the pressure full throttle and let us hear more good news soon.
Regards.
Sohail
(a retired technocrat)
Congratulations to Adil! He is indeed a patriotic Pakistani-American and a volunteer extraordinaire! We can all be proud of his accomplishments and his service to humanity as a member of the Nobel winning IPCC.
I think this makes Adil Najam the first Pakistani blogger to get this great honor!
Excellent. I am even more impressed than I already was.
It is good to see good things happening to good people.
I am quite impressed by the process and company Prof. Najam is in. This is a good selection of people Adil Najam, Javed Ghamdi, Asma Jehangir, Ayesha Jalal.
Excellent. And congratulations to you all.