A Nation's Acknowledgement
Sitara-e-Shujaat
ستارۂ شجاعت
The Star of Bravery — one of the highest civil gallantry honours of the State of Pakistan.
The Sitara-e-Shujaat recognises acts of conspicuous courage. For Fizza’s family, it is the State’s formal acknowledgement of a truth they already carried: that she gave her life in the service of her country, in the courts she had chosen out of love for it.
The award was announced on Pakistan’s 75th Independence Day and conferred the following Pakistan Day. Her family received it on her behalf — a daughter of Islamabad honoured in the nation’s own house.
“A very proud moment for all of us today — Pakistan Independence Day, the 75th — my late sister (Shaheed) Advocate Fizza Tariq Malik has been conferred by the President of Pakistan one of the highest civil gallantry awards, the Sitara-e-Shujaat.”
How her memory is kept
Fizza Library, Islamabad High Court
The Islamabad High Court Bar Association named its lawyers’ library after Fizza — a decision by Bar President Mohsin Kiani. The library holds thousands of texts dating to 1947 and serves around 3,000 lawyer-members.
Justitia Awards Nomination
Fizza was nominated by Woman In Law for the Justitia Awards, an international initiative honouring women in law — recognition that her story belongs to every society defending the rule of law.
Fizza Day
An annual commemoration of her life, and of every life lost to terrorism, instituted by Fizza Trust at its founding in 2014.