Pride of Performance (Urdu: تمغۂ حسنِ کارکردگی), is one of the highest civil awards conferred by the Pakistan Governmenton Pakistani civilians in recognition of distinguished merit in the fields of Literature, Arts, Sports, Medicines, and Science.

The announcement of civil awards, including Pride of Performance, is generally made once a year on Independence Day (14 August), and the investiture ceremony takes place on the following Pakistan Day (23 March) by the President of Pakistan.

The Pride of Performance award has no particular standing in Pakistani civil decorations hierarchy, but is regarded as one of the highest honours in Pakistan.

Ali Moeen Nawazish is a Pakistani student notable for passing 23 A-levels, a world record. He got 21 As, a B, and a C. Nawazish has graduated from Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

Nawazish was born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and lived most of his life there. Both of his parents work as doctors. He studied at St Mary's Academy and Roots School System during his General Certificate of Education.

Nawazish claims to be an ordinary student whose academic performance oscillated as a child; he sometimes barely passed. He edited the school magazine. He plays the guitar and piano, and played for a musical band. He is a practicing Muslim.

He received nine A grades in his O Level. The A Level subjects he took were Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Maths, Computer Studies, Marine Sciences, Applied ICT, Thinking Skills, Urdu Literature, General Paper, Geography, Applied Geography, General Further Mathematics, Human Biology, Further Mathematics, Sociology, Psychology, General Studies, English language, Travel and Tourism, Urdu Language, Business Studies, and Critical Thinking. He received awards for the highest marks in the country in Computing and ICT.^{[citation needed]}

Ali Moeen is a Pakistani dramatist and lyricist. He has written more than a dozen drama serials with dictionary seeking titles and also is known as the Gulzar^{[dubious – discuss]} of Pakistan music industry as lyricist, having written more than a hundred songs for various Pakistani artists.

Born November 20, 1968 in Lahore, to Nikhat Irshad and Syed Fakharuddin Balley. At the age of 3 his parents migrated to the town in the south of Punjab, Bahawalpur where at the age of 5 he was enrolled in the Saint Dominican Convent School.

He started writing poetry at the age of 14. When he turned 18, he went to Government College University, Lahore for graduation. His 1st book of poetry Badan Ki Khanqah Say came in 1991, followed by Bhagwa Bhais, the only book in the Urdu Language from Pakistan that has personality sketches about common people. He did his masters in English & political science.

Ashfaq Hussain Zaidi, PP, (born January 1, 1951) is a leading modern Urdu poet and an author of more than 10 books of poetry and literary criticism. He is considered by many as the foremost expert on the life and works of great Urdu poets Faiz Ahmed Faiz,Ahmad Faraz and also on Progressive Writers Movement. For his contributions to Urdu literature, Hussain was awarded the Presidential Pride of Performance from the government of Pakistan.

Ashfaq Hussain was born in a lower middle class family in Karachi, Pakistan on January 1, 1951. The eldest son of eight siblings, he lost his mother at the age of 13. He struggled throughout his academic years by working various part time jobs. He earned his Master's Degree in Urdu Literature from the University of Karachi in 1974. Hussain was elected Vice President of the Students Union of Urdu Department in 1973. He then spent one year as lecturer at Government Degree Science College, Karachi. Before migrating to Canada, Hussain was working as a Programme Officer at the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi.

Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.; January 17, 1942) is an American former professional boxer, philanthropist and social activist. Considered a cultural icon, Ali was both idolized and vilified.

Originally known as Cassius Clay, Ali changed his name after joining the Nation of Islam in 1964, subsequently converting to Sunni Islam in 1975, and more recently practicing Sufism.^{[clarification needed]} In 1967, three years after Ali had won the World Heavyweight Championship, he was publicly vilified for his refusal to be conscripted into the U.S. military, based on his religious beliefs and opposition to the Vietnam War. Ali stated, "I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong... No Viet Cong ever called me nigger" – one of the more telling remarks of the era.

Widespread protests against the Vietnam War had not yet begun, but with that one phrase, Ali articulated the reason to oppose the war for a generation of young Americans, and his words served as a touchstone for the racial and antiwar upheavals that would rock the 1960s. Ali's example inspired Martin Luther King Jr. – who had been reluctant to alienate the Johnson Administration and its support of the civil rights agenda – to voice his own opposition to the war for the first time.