Awards and decorations of the Pakistan military

Pakistan Armed Forces پاک مسلح افواج
Emblem
Founded	1947
Service branches	Pakistan Army Pakistan Navy Pakistan Air Force
Headquarters	Joint Staff Headquarters, Rawalpindi
Leadership
Commander-in-Chief	President Mamnoon Hussain
Minister of Defence	Khawaja Asif
Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee	General Zubair Mahmood Hayat Pakistan Army
Manpower
Military age	16–49 years old
Conscription	None
Active personnel	643,800 (ranked 6th)
Reserve personnel	513,000
Expenditures
Budget	$7.6 billion (2015–16) (ranked 25th)
Percent of GDP	3.5% (2015)
Industry
Domestic suppliers	Air Weapons Complex Heavy Industries Taxila Integrated Defence Systems Global Industrial Defence Solutions Defence Science and Technology Organization Karachi Shipyard and Engineering Works Kahuta Research Laboratories National Development Complex Pakistan Aeronautical Complex Pakistan Ordnance Factories SATUMA Metallurgical Laboratories Integrated Dynamics Marine Systems Limited
Foreign suppliers	Brazil  China  France  Russia  Turkey  Jordan  United States  United Kingdom
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Ranks	Awards and decorations of the Pakistan Armed Forces

The awards and decorations of the Pakistan Armed Forces recognize a service member's service and personal accomplishments while a member of the Pakistan armed forces. Together with military badges, such awards are a means to outwardly display the highlights of a service member's career.

The Nishan-i-Haider (Urdu: نشان حیدر meaning "Order of the Lion") is the Highest' military award given by Pakistan. Awarded "to those who have performed acts of greatest heroism or most conspicuous courage in circumstances of extreme danger and have shown bravery of the highest order or devotion to the country, in the presence of the enemy on land, at sea or in the air ..."

Recipients Nishan-i-Haider recipients receive an honorary title as a sign of respect: Shaheed meaning martyr for deceased recipients and Ghazi meaning victor for living recipients. As of Sept 19, 2013, all Nishan-e-Haider awards have thus far been given to the people engaged in battles with India.

01. Captain Muhammad Sarwar Shaheed (1910–July 27, 1948)
02. Major Tufail Muhammad Shaheed (1914–August 7, 1958)
03. Major Raja Aziz Bhatti Shaheed (1938–September 10, 1965)
04. Major Muhammad Akram Shaheed (1938–1971)
05. Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas Shaheed(Air Force) (1951–August 20, 1971)
06. Major Shabbir Sharif Shaheed (1943–December 6, 1971)
07. Jawan Sawar Muhammad Hussain Shaheed (1949–December 10, 1971)
08. Lance Naik Muhammad Mahfuz Shaheed (1944–December 17, 1971)
09. Captain Karnal Sher Khan Shaheed (1970–July 5, 1999)
10. Lalak Jan Shaheed (1967–July 7, 1999)
11. Naik Saif Ali Janjua Shaheed (25 April 1922 - 26 April 1948) (Was awarded Hilal-e-Kashmir - an equivalent to Nishan-i-Haider)

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