Pride of Performance Awards (2020–2029)

Main article: Pride of Performance

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]

Pride of Performance
Awarded by Government of Pakistan
Type	Literary award
Established	March 19, 1957
Country	Islamic Republic of Pakistan
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Awarded for	"meritorious contribution to the field of literature, arts, sports, medicine and science".
Status	Active
Statistics
First induction	1958
Last induction	2020

Pride of Performance award recipients

Category	Number of recipients (2020)
Arts	17
Science	12
Literature	6
Sports	3
Education	3
Social work	1
Other	1

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]	Field	Category	Country/Province
Waris Baig[5]	Film playback singing	Singing	Punjab
Kiran Iqbal	Science	Chemistry	Sindh
Taj Joyo[a]	Literature	Poet
Shakeel Abbas Rofi	Science	Engineering (nuclear)
Zahid Noor Peracha	Science	Engineering (electronics)
Humayun Saeed	Arts	Acting
Sakina Samo	Arts	Acting
Mohammed Ali Shehki	Arts	Singing
Salman Hashmi	Arts	Formatting & Scanning
Zulfiqar Ali Lund	Arts	Instrumentalist
Abdul Qudoos Arif alias (A. Q. Arif)	Arts	Painting
Mahtab Mahboob	Literature	Writer
Hina Nasrullah	Arts	Sufi Singer/ Naat Khuwan	Punjab
Ali Zafar	Arts	Singing
Salman Ghani	Journalism
Muhammad Aslam Ansari	Literature	Poet/writer
Resham	Arts	Acting
Krishan Gee	Arts	Singing
Khalid Masud Gondal	Education	academic and physician
Saleem Akhtar	Science	Engineering (mechanical)
Amir Shahzad	Science	Engineering
Muhammad Mazhar Iqbal	Science	Engineering (chemical)
Umar Asghar	Science	Engineering (electrical)
Munir Ahmed	Science	Engineering (process control and aging management)
Inam Ur Rehman	Science	Engineering (nuclear)
Liaqat Ali	Science	(Laser and Optics)
Muhammad Baqir	Arts	Fresco Painting
Shafique Farooqi	Arts	Painting/Calligraphy
Asif Ali Khan	Arts	Qawwali singer
Indu Mariam Mitha	Arts	Choreography
Mirza Athar Baig	Literature	Writer
Tariq Jamil	Religion	Islamic scholar
Muhammad Irfan	Sports	Kabaddi
Haider Ali	Sports	Paralympic Athlete
Muhammad Fuzail	Science	Chemistry	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Qurrat-ul-Ain	Science	Plasma Physics
Raisa Begum Gul	Education	Nursing
Naimatullah alias Naimat Sarhadi	Education	Nursing
Soraiya Khan alias Mahjabeen Qazalbash	Arts	Singing
Muhammad Faheem	Arts	Wood Lacque
Abaseen Yousufzai	Literature	Writer
Farhan Mehboob	Sports	Squash
Abdul Majid Qureshi	Social work	Activist
Daryan Khan	Arts	Musical instruments maker	Balochistan
Muhammad Yousuf alias Yousuf Gichki	Literature	Writer
Sarmad Sehbai	Arts	Playwright/poet	Islamabad
Ruth Wenny Lekardal	—	Service to Pakistan	Sweden

See also

• Pride of Performance Awards (2010–2019)