Mukhtar Masood, SI

Sitara-i-Imtiaz

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, (Urdu

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: مختار مسعود) is a Pakistan

Pakistan

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i writer

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 and bureaucrat

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. He has been awarded Sitara-i-Imtiaz

Sitara-i-Imtiaz

The Sitara-i-Imtiaz , is the third highest honour and civilian award in the State of Pakistan. It recognizes the individuals who made an "especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of Pakistan, world peace, cultural or other significant public endeavors"...

, one of the highest civil awards by the Government of Pakistan

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He was among the very few graduates of Sir Syed’s Muslim University Aligarh who completed the studies from class one to M.A. from one and the same place. His father Sheikh Attaullah was a professor of Economics

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 and who in 1944 published in two volumes about 388 letters of Allama Iqbal.