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ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday accustomed accolade of `Hilal-i-Imtiaz' aloft Ms. Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, the aboriginal Pakistani to win Oscar for her documentary" Saving Face".

The President accustomed accolade on the admonition of PrimeMinister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani.

The documentary "Saving Face" chronicles the lives of women acerbic advance survivors, their attempts to
accompany the assailants tojustice and follows in a British-Pakistan artificial surgeon Dr Jawad, who performs reconstructive surgeries on them.

Ms. Sharmeen Chinoy, accepted for documentaries ambidextrous with activity in the Muslim world, has produced abundant films and has won a cardinal of awards and ceremoniousness including the Emmy Award. She became the aboriginal non-American to win the Livingston Award.

The accolade has been accustomed in acceptance of the achievements of Ms Sharmeen in the acreage of blur making.

It recognizes her addition in highlighting important amusing issues in Pakistan through her documentaries, exemplified by the contempo accolade of an Oscar for the aboriginal time to a Pakistani national, the accolade of "Hilal-i-Imtiaz" was actuality conferred aloft her.