'PM Imran to receive Bahrain's top civil award'

PM will be awarded King Hamad Order of the Renaissance during upcoming visit to Bahrain

Bahrain will confer its highest civil award on Prime Minister Imran Khan during his upcoming visit to the kingdom.

Sayed Zulfikar Bukhari, the PM's Special Assistant for Overseas Pakistanis, told Arab News the premier will head to Bahrain later this month and will receive the King Hamad Order of the Renaissance at a special ceremony.

"The prime minister is going on an official visit to Bahrain in the mid of December where he will be conferred Bahrain’s highest civilian award," Bukhari told Arab News.

The news report pointed out the same award was conferred upon India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi in August this year, just weeks after New Delhi's illegal annexation of Indian Occupied Kashmir.

Modi conferred ‘The King Hamad Order of the Renaissance’ in Bahrain

It said PM Imran will attend Bahrain's national day celebrations and hold meetings with his counterpart Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa and Bahrain's ruling monarch, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.

 

The prime minister's Bahrain visit is expected to be before he heads to Geneva for the first-ever Global Refugees Forum, starting on December 17.

At his weekly news briefing in Islamabad last Friday, Foreign Office Spokesperson Dr Muhammad Faisal said several heads of states are expected to join PM Imran as co-conveners of the event, which is being jointly hosted by the UN Refugee Agency and the government of Switzerland.

As per the FO spokesperson, PM Imran will also participate in the Kuala Lumpur Summit due to take place in Malaysia from December 18 to December 20.

"The Kuala Lumpur Summit is a platform to exchange views on the current challenges and to work together to address them. It will provide Pakistan an opportunity to exchange views and find solutions to challenges facing the Muslim world, particularly governance, development, terrorism, and Islamophobia," said Dr Faisal.