{"id":13887,"date":"2023-10-13T18:56:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T18:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/president-confers-nishan-e-imtiaz-upon-new-naval-chief-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-10-13T18:56:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T18:56:07","slug":"president-confers-nishan-e-imtiaz-upon-new-naval-chief-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/president-confers-nishan-e-imtiaz-upon-new-naval-chief-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"President confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz upon new naval chief | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<strong class=\"location-names\"><br \/>\nISLAMABAD:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Dr Arif Alvi on Friday conferred the insignia of Nishan-e-Imtiaz (military) upon Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Naveed Ashraf.<\/p>\n<p>The president decorated the naval chief with the award in recognition of his meritorious services at a special ceremony held in Islamabad at the Aiwan-e-Sadr.<\/p>\n<p>Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar, Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani, and services chiefs attended the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Admiral Ashraf assumed the role of the 23rd naval chief of staff during the change of command ceremony in Islamabad on October 7.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2439786\/admiral-naveed-ashraf-takes-charge-as-new-naval-chief\">Admiral Naveed Ashraf takes charge as new naval chief<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He commenced his naval career in 1989, joining the Operations Branch of Pakistan Navy. He is a graduate of the National Defence University (NDU) in Islamabad, the US Naval War College, and the UK&#8217;s Royal College of Defence Studies.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his career, he has held various key command and staff positions, including serving as commander of the Pakistan Fleet and Commandant of the Pakistan Naval Academy.<\/p>\n<p>He has also played vital roles as deputy chief of naval staff for operations, training and personnel, and administration, in addition to being deputy president of the NDU.<\/p>\n<p>He has received awards recognising his exceptional professional service and bravery, including the Hilal-i-Imtiaz and Tamgha-i-Basalat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v5.0&#038;appId=419051588770002&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Friday conferred the insignia of Nishan-e-Imtiaz (military) upon Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Naveed Ashraf. The president decorated the naval chief with the award in recognition of his meritorious services at a special ceremony held in Islamabad at the Aiwan-e-Sadr. Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar, Foreign Minister Jalil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/naval-chef-nishan-e-haider1697204115-0\/naval-chef-nishan-e-haider1697204115-0.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}