The senate of Pakistan has passed a unanimous resolution conferring the top and highest civilian award, Nishan-e-Pakistan on Kashmiri separatist, Syed Ali Shah Geelani. The Senate has also proposed one of the engineering university in his name Syed Ali Geelani.
As per reports, the resolution also sought inclusion of Geelani’s life story in the school curriculum. The resolution also asked the Pakistan government to name an engineering university in Islamabad after Geelani.