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MBE - Nighat Awan
Queen honours local Asians
28/ 6/2004
IT was honours all round for people in the north west who
received some of the highest distinctions in the country in the
Queen's Birthday Honours list.
Britain's highest ranking Asian police officer, assistant
commissioner of the Met, Tariq Ghaffur, the woman behind the Shere
Khan Restaurant empire, Nighat Awan, Greater Manchester Police's
community and race relations officer, Afzal Iqbal and Rochdale
restaurateur, Khandaker Musabbir were among the people
recognised.
Manchester born, mother-of-three Nighat, (pictured) who started
Shere Khan with her husband Rafique, received an OBE for her
charity work and contribution to the economy through her food
export business.
She has used her own business success story and her personal
challenges with life-threatening illness including thyroid cancer,
to spread a message of hope to other sufferers through talks and
seminars.
Forty-eight-year-old Mr Ghaffur (pictured) was honoured with a CBE.
The Ugandan born officer started his police career on the beat in
Salford.
Said Mr Ghaffur: "It is both an honour and a privilege to receive
the CBE. During nearly 30 years of service I have had the pleasure
of working with a great many committed and dedicated officers and
police staff. The CBE is a recognition of their efforts."
Afzal Iqbal from Oldham has received an MBE for his dedication to
build links between the police service and ethnic minority
communities.
The 43-year-old joined GMP in 1993 and was the first community and
race relations officer to be recruited from an ethnic minority
background.
He helped set up the Longsight multi-agency racial harassment
project; organised personal safety awareness days for the elderly,
drugs awareness events for young people and arranged for police
officers to have courses in basic conversational Urdu to help build
better community cohesion with the community they serve.
Mr Musabbir, aged 65, is the first member of the Bangladeshi
community in Rochdale to receive such an honour.
The owner of the Star of Bengal Restaurant has been awarded an MBE
for his community work.
Ever since he moved to the town in 1963 he has worked for the
Bangladeshi Association Community Project for which he is now
chairman.
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