Pride of Performance Awards (2020–2029)

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Pride of Performance
Awarded by
State emblem of Pakistan.svg
Government of Pakistan
Type Literary award
EstablishedMarch 19, 1957
Country Flag of Pakistan.svg Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Ribbon President's Award for Pride of Performance (1978-83) Pakistan.svg
Awarded for"meritorious contribution to the field of literature, arts, sports, medicine and science".
StatusActive
Statistics
First induction1958
Last induction2020


Pride of Performance award recipients
CategoryNumber of recipients (2020)
Arts
17
Science
12
Literature
6
Sports
3
Education
3
Social work
1
Other
1

The Pride of Performance is a civil award presented annually on independence day (14 August) by the president to the Pakistani citizens and foreign people in recognition of their contribution to the art, sports, literature, science and education. It also seeks to recognize the "meritorious contribution" to the national interest of Pakistan. [1] It is the highest literary award bestowed by Pakistan. [2]

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2020

In 2020, the government of Pakistan presented forty-three Pride of Performance awards to the people working in different fields as described by its eligibility criteria.

Key
   # Indicates a posthumous honour
Awardee [3] [4] FieldCategoryCountry/Province
Waris Baig [5] Film playback singingSingingPunjab
Kiran IqbalScience Chemistry Sindh
Taj Joyo [lower-alpha 1] LiteraturePoet
Shakeel Abbas RofiScienceEngineering (nuclear)
Zahid Noor PerachaScienceEngineering (electronics)
Humayun Saeed ArtsActing
Sakina Samo ArtsActing
Mohammed Ali Shehki ArtsSinging
Salman Hashmi ArtsFormatting & Scanning
Zulfiqar Ali LundArtsInstrumentalist
Abdul Qudoos Arif alias (A. Q. Arif)ArtsPainting
Mahtab MahboobLiteratureWriter
Hina NasrullahArts Sufi Singer/ Naat Khuwan Punjab
Ali Zafar ArtsSinging
Muhammad Aslam AnsariLiteraturePoet/writer
Resham ArtsActing
Krishan GeeArtsSinging
Khalid Masud Gondal Educationacademic and physician
Saleem AkhtarScienceEngineering (mechanical)
Amir ShahzadScienceEngineering
Muhammad Mazhar IqbalScienceEngineering (chemical)
Umar AsgharScienceEngineering (electrical)
Munir AhmedScienceEngineering (process control and aging management)
Inam Ur RehmanScienceEngineering (nuclear)
Liaqat AliScience(Laser and Optics)
Muhammad BaqirArtsFresco Painting
Shafique FarooqiArtsPainting/Calligraphy
Asif Ali KhanArts Qawwali singer
Indu Mariam Mitha ArtsChoreography
Mirza Athar Baig LiteratureWriter
Tariq Jamil ReligionIslamic scholar
Muhammad IrfanSports Kabaddi
Haider AliSportsParalympic Athlete
Muhammad FuzailScienceChemistry Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Qurrat-ul-AinSciencePlasma Physics
Raisa Begum GulEducationNursing
Naimatullah alias Naimat SarhadiEducationNursing
Soraiya Khan alias Mahjabeen QazalbashArtsSinging
Muhammad FaheemArtsWood Lacque
Abaseen YousufzaiLiteratureWriter
Farhan MehboobSports Squash
Abdul Majid QureshiSocial workActivist
Daryan KhanArtsMusical instruments maker Balochistan
Muhammad Yousuf alias Yousuf GichkiLiteratureWriter
Sarmad SehbaiArtsPlaywright/poet Islamabad
Ruth Wenny Lekardal Service to Pakistan Sweden

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  1. declined to receive the award [6]