# Pride of Performance Awards (1980–1989)

Pride of Performance (Urdu: تمغۂ حسنِ کارکردگی) is a civil award given by the Government of Pakistan to Pakistani citizens in recognition of distinguished merit in the fields of literature, arts, sports, medicine, or science for civilians.

## 1980

| Name | Field | Specialization | Province | Country |
| Mohammad Qavi Khan | Arts | Film and TV Actor | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Ustad Khyal Muhammad | Arts | Singing | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Pakistan |
| Allan Faqir | Arts | Sufi music and folk singer | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Sohail Rana | Arts | Music composer | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Aazar Zubi | Arts | Painter Artist | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Muhammad Juman | Arts | Folk music singer | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Malika Pukhraj | Arts | Folk music singer | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Khalid Iqbal | Arts | Painter Artist | Punjab | Pakistan |

## 1981

| Name | Field | Specialization | Province | Country |
| Mirza Adeeb | Literature | Writer | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Nasir Jahan | Arts | Naat, Hamd & Noha Reciting on TV | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Mir Mitha Khan Marri | Literature | Writer | Balochistan | Pakistan |
| Haji Mohammad Yaqoob Durrani (Kaka Khan) | | | | Pakistan |
| Qari Shakir Qasmi | Arts | Quran Recitor | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Mansoor Tabish | Arts | Naat Reciting on TV | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Qari Syed Ali Sharfuddin Yemni | Arts | Naat Reciting | | Pakistan |
| Ustad Imam Deen Salehi | | | | Pakistan |
| Nanhe Ali Khan | Arts | Music | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Roohi Bano | Arts | TV Actress | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Alexander Robert | Arts | Photography | | |
| Mai Bhagi | Arts | Folk Singer | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Alexander Robert | Arts | Photography | | |
| Majid Jahangir | Arts | Actor | Sindh | Pakistan |

## 1982

| Name | Field | Specialization | Province | Country |
| Uzma Gillani | Arts | TV actress | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Qari Ubaidur Rehman | Arts | Naat Reciting on TV | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Talat Hussain | Arts | TV and film actor | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Tufail Niazi | Arts | Folk singer | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Islahuddin Siddique | Sports | Hockey | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Jahangir Khan | Sports | Squash player | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Behram D. Avari | Sports | Sailing | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Sheikh Inayatullah | Literature | Writer | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Colonel Miss Shamin Rahim | | | | Pakistan |
| Aaisha Siddiqui | | | | Pakistan |
| Nazir Ahmed Sabir | Sports | Mountaineering | Gilgit-Baltistan | Pakistan |
| Ashraf Aman | Sports | Mountaineering | Gilgit-Baltistan | Pakistan |

## 1983

| Name | Field | Specialization | Province | Country |
| Imran Khan | Sports | Cricket player | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Akhtar Rasool | Sports | Hockey player | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Samiullah Khan | Sports | Hockey player | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Arsh Muneer | Arts | TV Actress | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Ustad Nazar Hussain | Arts | Music Composer on PTV | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Nigah Hussain Durrani | | | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Malcolm Stevenson Forbes | Sports | Ballooning | New Jersey State | United States |
| Atta Shad | Literature | Poetry | Balochistan | Pakistan |

## 1984

| Name | Field | Specialization | Province | Country |
| Rais Amrohvi | Literature | Poetry | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Zameer Jafri | Literature | Poet | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Samandar Khan Samandar | Literature | Poet | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Pakistan |
| Qari Waheed Zafar Qasmi | Arts | TV Naat Reciting | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Manzoor Hussain Junior | Sports | Hockey player | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Hasan Sardar | Sports | Hockey player | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Kaleemullah Khan | Sports | Hockey player | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Hanif Khan | Sports | Hockey player | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Qamar Zaman | Sports | Squash player | Balochistan | Pakistan |
| Begum Khursheed Mirza | Arts | TV Actress | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Abida Parveen | Arts | Sufi music and folk singer | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Mohammad Ali | Arts | Film Actor | Punjab | Pakistan |

## 1985

| Name | Field | Specialization | Province | Country |
| Sayed Nafees al-Hussaini, Nafees Raqam | Art | Calligraphy | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Ustad Chhote Ghulam Ali Khan | Arts | Music | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Mehdi Hassan | Arts | Film and TV Singer | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Qari Ghulam Rasool | Arts | Recitation of Quranic Verses | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Siddiq Ismail | Arts | Naat Reciting on TV | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Abid Ali | Arts | TV Actor | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Mahmood Ali | Arts | TV Actor | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Major Mohammad Sher Khan | Sports | Mountaineering | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Mian Shaukat Hussain | Arts | Tabla player | Punjab | Pakistan |

## 1986

| Name | Field | Specialization | Province | Country |
| Intezar Hussain | Literature | Writer | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Nasrullah Khan | | | | Pakistan |
| Sabiha Khanum | Arts | Film Actress | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Shahzad Khalil | Arts | Television Director | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Ghulam Rasul | Hockey player | | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Suraiya Multanikar | Arts | Folk Singer | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Firdous Jamal | Arts | TV Actor | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Pakistan |
| Faiz Bakhshapuri | Literature | Poetry | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Riaz Batalvi | Literature | Writer | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan | Arts | Qawwali Singer | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Azhar Lodhi | Arts | TV Newscaster | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Javed Miandad | Sports | Cricket player | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Zaheer Abbas | Sports | Cricket player | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Captain Abdul Jabbar Bhatti | Sports | Mountaineering | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Mohammad Ali | Sports | Mountaineering | Punjab | Pakistan |

## 1987

| Name | Field | Specialization | Province | Country |
| Ustad Abdul Majeed Dehlvi | Arts | Calligraphy | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Lieutenant Commander Muneer Sadiq | Sports | Sailing | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Lieutenant Mohammad Zakaullah | Sports | Sailing | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Haseena Moin | Arts | TV Dramatist and writer | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Adil Salahuddin | Arts | Postage Stamp designer | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Qazi Mulla | Arts | Pashto Drama | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Pakistan |
| Sain Akhtar Hussain | Arts | Folk music singer | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Qari Izhar Ahmed Thanvi | Arts | Reciting of Quranic verses | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Amjad Islam Amjad | Literature | TV Dramatist and poet | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Abdul Majeed Maruwala | Sports | Wrestling | Punjab | Pakistan |

## 1988

| Name | Field | Specialization | Province | Country |
| Jansher Khan | Sports | Squash Legend | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Pakistan |
| Shaista Zaid | Arts | TV Newscaster | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Abdul Qadir Junejo | Literature | Writing | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Mustafa Qureshi | Arts | Film Actor | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Qazi Wajid | Arts | Film/Drama Actor | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Muzaffar Warsi | Literature | Poet and Naat Reciter | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Fayyaz Ahmed | | | | Pakistan |
| A.J. Khan | | | | Pakistan |
| Mohammad Rafiq Ahmed | | | | Pakistan |
| Akhtar Hussain Awan | Academic | | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Kubra Sheikh | | | | Pakistan |
| Shah Jehan | Sports | Mountaineering | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Zia Mahmood | Sports | Bridge | | Pakistan |
| Abul Wafa | | | | Pakistan |
| Intikhab Alam | Sports | Cricket player | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Abdul Qadir | Sports | Cricket player | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Nasir Ali | Sports | Hockey player | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Ghulam Hassan Shaggan | Arts | Classical Music singer | Punjab | Pakistan |
* Most of the nomination process of the Pride of Performance Awards was cancelled due to the change of Government in 1989.

## 1989

| Name | Field | Specialization | Province | Country |
| Ustad Kabir Khan | Arts | Music - Sitar Playing | Punjab | Pakistan |
| G.A. Chishti | Arts | Film Music Composer | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Musarrat Nazir | Arts | Film Actress | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Shafi Mohammad Shah | Arts | Actor | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Kamal Ahmed Rizvi | Arts | TV Dramatist and TV actor | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Jameel Bismil | Arts | TV Actor | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Bushra Ansari | Arts | TV Actress | Sindh | Pakistan |
| Amir Khan | Arts | Radio Drama Artist | | Pakistan |
| Amjad Hussain | Arts | | | Pakistan |
| Aziz Mian | Arts | Sufi music and Qawwali singer | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Agha Talish | Arts | Film Actor | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Maharaj Ghulam Hussain Kathak | Arts | Dancing | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Mudassar Nazar | Sports | Cricket player | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Dr. Anwar Sajjad | Literature | Writer | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Khawar Naeem Hashmi | Arts | TV Journalist | | Pakistan |
| Iqbal Jafri | | | | Pakistan |
| Nasir Zaidi | Writer | Journalist | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan | Arts | Sufi music and Qawwali singer | Punjab | Pakistan |
| Jamil Naqsh | Arts | Painter Artist | Sindh | Pakistan |