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              MP Urdu 
              Academy to felicitate scribe Ashfaque Mushhadi amongst others 
            
            
            
            Wednesday December 22, 2010 09:40:32 PM, 
            Pervez Bari, ummid.com 
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              Bhopal: Ashfaque Mushhadi, Madhya 
              Pradesh Special Correspondent of Rashtriya Urdu Sahara, will be 
              honoured with national level Hakim Qamr-ul-Hasan award for Urdu 
              journalists by the Madhya Pradesh Urdu Academy here on Thursday 
              evening.  
               
              Others to be felicitated with the national-level awards include: 
              Zafar Sehbai for the Meer Taqi Meer Award, Qaiser Siddiqui for the 
              Hamid Saeed Khan award, Ishrat Wahid for Shadan Indori Award and 
              Mushtaq Waleed for the Johar Qureshi award.  
               
              While those to be conferred State-level awards are: Shakeel 
              Gwaliori for the Siraj Meer Khan Sehar award, Shan Fakhri for the 
              Basit Bhopali award, Abdul Hai Anjum for the Mohamed Ali Taj 
              award, Iqbal Girami for the Nawab Siddique Hasan Khan award, 
              Farukh Anjum for the Sheri Bhopali award, Khalida Siddiqui for the 
              Kaif Bhopali award, Om Prabhakar for the Sukhan award and Qazi 
              Malik Naved for the Shifa Gwaliori award.  
               
              The Madhya Pradesh Urdu Academy had announced the above national 
              and State level awards for 2010-11 recently. The awards are 
              conferred for commendable service provided to the Urdu language.
               
               
              According to Urdu Academy secretary Ms Nusrat Mehdi, the awardees 
              would be provided cash awards, mementos and shawls at the award 
              ceremony. The function would be presided over by noted poet Padamshree Dr. Basheer Badr, who is also chairman of the Urdu 
              Academy while chief guest will be Member of Parliament Kailash 
              Joshi. Ex-MP Kailash Sarang, BJP leader Rameshwar Sharma and 
              Madhya Commissioner for Minority Welfare Raghuveer Shrivastav 
              would guests of honour.  
               
              Meanwhile, an All India Mushaira will also be held on the occasion 
              after the awards presentation ceremony. The Mushaira will be 
              compeered by poet Mansoor Usmani of Moradabad.   
              
              (pervezbari@eth.net) 
  
              
                
              
                
              
               
  
              
                
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