Honors
For his outstanding achievements he earned the prestigious President’s Award for Pride-of-Performance in 1982. in 1982 and was honored with The Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) in 2001 for his outstanding performance in mountaineering sports.
He is the only Pakistani to have been honoured by the Alpine Club (UK) in 1992, Polish Mountaineering Federation in 2002 and American Alpine Club in 2008 with the honourary membership.
His home ground latest honour is when he was unanimously elected to the seat of the Alpine Club of Pakistan as its fifth but first civilian and mountaineer president after four army generals on October 10, 2004 and again elected for another term in 2007. Presently he heads the Alpine Club of Pakistan, which trains and prepares men and women from all around Pakistan for the outdoors activities and in particular mountain climbing.
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