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UAE to bestow ‘Order of Zayed’ upon PM Modi on 23rd Aug.

NEW DELHI: Indian External Affairs Ministry has revealed that UAE will bestow upon PM Narendra Modi the Emirates’ highest civilian award Order of Zayed during his official visit to the Gulf State.

Modi’s three day tour of UAE and Bahrain will commence on 23rd of August. He is scheduled to launch the renovation of a temple of Shreenathji in Bahrain. 

Indian External Ministry statement held that: “The order in the name of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, founding father of the UAE, acquires special significance as it is awarded to Prime Minister Modi in the year of the birth centenary of Sheikh Zayed.”

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.