It also witnessed the Test debut of Hanif Mohammed, one of their greatest ever batsmen.
Pakistani nationalism was encouraged by the presence of many symbols like Mr Hanif's tin jets.
"This is the sort of situation I have been waiting for, " Hanif said with a glint in his eyes.
"My Son the Fanatic" is a novella by Hanif Kureishi that speaks to the difficulties of acculturation of second-generation Muslims.
"It was like being on "Big Brother, " except you could go to the movies, " added British screenwriter and fellow juror Hanif Kureishi.
Only Pakistan's Hanif Mohammed had played a longer innings in a Test.
Yet the screenwriter, Hanif Kureishi, and the director, Roger Michell, shamelessly milk the pathos of infirmity, lurching heedlessly from one prefabricated poignancy to another.
Hanif is among 12 former players who will be honoured at the ceremony, which was postponed last year after Australia cancelled a tour to Pakistan.
Former director of the Proms concerts Nicholas Kenyon is knighted, while while playwright and author Hanif Kureishi - best known for his 1990 novel The Buddha of Suburbia - becomes a CBE.
Books in contention included Jamil Ahmad's The Wandering Falcon, Tahmima Anam's The Good Muslim, Amitav Ghosh's River of Smoke, Mohammed Hanif's Our Lady of Alice Bhatti and Uday Prakash's The Walls of Delhi.
Some of the best coverage of indigenous affairs, to use that unlovely phrase, is to been found in the pages of the Australian, and the paper made much of the running during the wrongful detention of the Indian doctor, Muhamed Hanif.
"This accelerated drawdown of troops in 2013 will be very unhelpful and will have far-reaching negative consequences for the growth of Afghan security forces, " said Hanif Atmar, an opposition leader and former interior minister, citing adverse effects on this year's fighting season and elections planned in 2014.
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