Gold Medal in M.Sc. (1975)

Academic roll of Honor Govt. College, Lahore. (1958)

Chairman, Committee on Environmental Mutagenesis, Genetics Society of Canada, 1976-1977.

Member of Teaching Faculty of the UNESCO Regional Training Course on Gene cloning held in Singapore, 1983.

Chairman, Committee on Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Genetic Society of Canada, 1983-1984.

Elected Fellow of Third World Academy of Sciences, 1987.

Elected Foreign Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, 1988.

Elected Fellow of Islamic Academy of Sciences, 1998.

Elected Fellow of Pakistan Academy of Medical Sciences, 2000.

International Coordinator and Member of the Executive Committee for the XVI International Congress of Genetics, Toronto, 1988.

Consultant and Member of International Advisory Committee for National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Faisalabad (1993 - todate).

Honorary Professor in H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan. (1993)

Overseas Pakistani’s Institute (OPI) award for outstanding services for the cause of science in Pakistan. (1995).

Civil Award “Pride of Performance” in Molecular Genetics (1995) (by the President of Pakistan)

Civil Award “Sitara-e-Imtiaz” in Molecular Genetics 1999.

Chairman National Commission on Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of Pakistan. (2001-todate)