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Pride Of Performance Awards (1990–1999)
Pride of Performance () Award 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. Civil awards in Pakistan are announced on Pakistan Independence Day, Independence Day (14 August) each year and then conferred on Yom-e-Pakistan (23 March) the next year. 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Pride Of Performance Awards (1990-1999) Civil awards and decorations of Pakistan Recipients of the Pride of Performance, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pride Of Performance
The Pride of Performance (), officially known as the Presidential Pride of Performance, is an award bestowed by the Pakistan, Islamic Republic of Pakistan to recognize people with "notable achievements in the field of art, science, literature, sports, and nursing". The Pride of Performance is the highest national literary award of Pakistan conferred upon its Pakistanis, citizens and, while it recognizes literary contribution, it can also be conferred upon foreign nationals. History The Pride of Performance award, including Civil decorations of Pakistan, civil decorations was established in 1957 under the Decorations Act, 1975, enacted or modified in 1975. The award seeks to recognize notable achievements which are determined by the Warrant of Precedence for Pakistan, Pakistan Warrant of Precedence of 1980. The award which was possibly first awarded in 1958, can also be conferred posthumously under a Constitution of Pakistan, constitutional amendment Article 259 of clause two. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iftikhar Arif
Iftikhar Hussain Arif (born 21 March 1944) is a Pakistani poet and litterateur of Urdu. His main theme is romantic Urdu poetry and he has headed the Pakistan Academy of Letters and the National Language Authority. Arif has received the Nishan-e-Imtiaz, Hilal-e-Imtiaz, Sitara-e-Imtiaz, and Presidential Pride of Performance awards, the highest literary awards given by the Government of Pakistan. Early life and career Iftikhar Arif was born on 21 March 1944 and attended the University of Lucknow, where he studied English, Urdu and Sanskrit and got his MA degree in 1965, then studied journalism at New York University. He then migrated to Karachi, Pakistan, where he was a newscaster for Radio Pakistan. He then joined the Pakistan Television Corporation (Karachi Center) where he teamed up with Obaidullah Baig for the PTV program ''Kasauti''. He spent the next thirteen years in England, until 1990, working for ''Urdu Markaz'' there. Achievements Arif has published three poetry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuclear Science
Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies atomic nuclei and their constituents and interactions, in addition to the study of other forms of nuclear matter. Nuclear physics should not be confused with atomic physics, which studies the atom as a whole, including its electrons. Discoveries in nuclear physics have led to nuclear technology, applications in many fields such as nuclear power, nuclear weapons, nuclear medicine and magnetic resonance imaging, industrial and agricultural isotopes, ion implantation in materials engineering, and radiocarbon dating in geology and archaeology. Such applications are studied in the field of nuclear engineering. Particle physics evolved out of nuclear physics and the two fields are typically taught in close association. Nuclear astrophysics, the application of nuclear physics to astrophysics, is crucial in explaining the inner workings of stars and the nucleosynthesis, origin of the chemical elements. History The history of nucle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hafeez Qureshi
Muhammad Hafeez Qureshi (Urdu: محمد حفيظ قريشى; October 31 October 1930 – 11 August 2007), , known as Hafeez Qureshi, was a Pakistani nuclear scientist and a mechanical engineer, known for his role as a diagnostics engineer for his nation's nuclear capability. His career was spent working at the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science & Technology as overseeing the diagnostics on the subcritical experiments on the nuclear weapons where he gained expertise on engineering applications of nuclear physics. Biography Early life and education Muhammad Hafeez Qureshi was born in Kapurthala, which is now part of the Punjab in India, to a Punjabi-speaking Indian Muslim family on 31 October 1930. His family emigrated from India to Pakistan sometime after the partition of British-ruled India in 1947; only to settle in Karachi, Sindh. Upon matriculating from a local high school, Qureshi enrolled at Karachi University in 1956— he partly supported his studies by working ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khyber Pakhtunkwa
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ; , ; abbr. KP or KPK), formerly known as the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), is a Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Pakistan. Located in the Northern Pakistan, northwestern region of the country, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the fourth largest province of Pakistan by land area and the third-largest province by population. It is bordered by Balochistan, Pakistan, Balochistan to the south; Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab, Islamabad Capital Territory, and Azad Kashmir to the east; and Gilgit-Baltistan to the north and northeast. It shares an Durand Line, international border with Afghanistan to the west. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has a varied geography of rugged mountain ranges, valleys, rolling foothills, and dense agricultural farms. While it is the third-largest Pakistani province in terms of both its population and Economy of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, its economy, it is geographically the smallest. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's share of Pakistan's GDP has historically com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attaullah Khan Essa Khailwi
Attaullah Khan Niazi ( born 19 August 1951), known professionally as Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi, is a Pakistani musician, singer, and poet from Isakhel in Mianwali District, Punjab. He is mainly associated with the folk music of Punjab and has written various songs and poems in the Saraiki language. In 2011, he appeared at Coke Studio (season 4) and sang three songs: Ni Oothaan Waale, and Pyaar Naal. In September 2017, he appeared again in Coke Studio (season 10) and sang ''Sab Maya Hai'' with his traditional band. Early life Esakhelvi was born on 19 August, 1951 in Isakhel, in the Mianwali District of West Punjab province of the Dominion of Pakistan (now in Punjab, Pakistan) into a Saraiki-speaking Niazi Pashtun family. The Thali dialect is spoken in his family. Attaullah developed an interest in music as a child, but it was strictly forbidden in his home. Despite the restrictions on music in his home, Attaullah secretly sought to learn more about it. His school t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khayyam Sarhadi
Khayyam Sarhadi (12 June 1948 – 3 February 2011; born as Khayyam Sethi) was a Pakistani film and television actor and a radio personality. Early life and education Khayyam Sarhadi was born to a Muslim family on 12 June 1948 in Bombay, in the home of parents Zia Sarhadi and Zahira Ghaznavi and grew up there. Later he moved to Karachi, Pakistan and stayed there for some time and later moved to Lahore, Pakistan. His maternal grandfather, Rafiq Ghaznavi, was a well-known musician and since both his parents were writers, he was into showbiz from an early age. Khayyam travelled to the United States where he got his master's degree in cinematography, following which he travelled through Europe making documentaries. He also had a master's degree in English literature and Fine Arts. Personal life Khayyam Sarhadi was married to a TV actress Atiya Sharaf. Later, the couple divorced and he married a film actress Saiqa. He had four daughters. He was the uncle of a model and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan Television Corporation
Pakistan Television Corporation (; reporting name: PTV); also known as ''Pakistan Television'', is the Pakistani state-owned broadcaster founded by the Government of Pakistan, operating under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. It was established on 26 November 1964, with a pilot television station established at Lahore. History Background The idea of establishing a media and television industry was conceived in late 1956 and created by the privately set up national education commission with the support of President Ayub Khan in 1960. In 1961, the private sector media mogul and industrialist Syed Wajid Ali launched a television industrial development project, bringing the role of Ubaidur Rahman, an electrical engineer in the Engineering Division of Radio Pakistan, as the project director of the first television station in Lahore. Ali reached a milestone in 1961 after establishing a private television broadcasting company with the cooperation of Nippon Electr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ata Ul Haq Qasmi
Ata ul Haq Qasmi ( Punjabi, ) is a Pakistani Urdu-language newspaper columnist, playwright and poet. He has written around twenty books and many articles on different subjects for the leading newspapers of Pakistan. His books have been translated into four languages. Early life and career Qasmi was born in Amritsar, Punjab, British India in 1943. His family has Kashmiri roots. His father Maulana Baha ul Haq Qasmi used to teach at MAO High School and MAO College in Amritsar. After independence of Pakistan in 1947, his family migrated to Pakistan and first settled in Wazirabad and later moved to Lahore where he finished his high school. He then graduated from Government M.A.O. Graduate College, Lahore. He first joined the Urdu language newspaper Nawa-i-Waqt as a sub-editor where the renowned journalist Majid Nizami was the editor. Later he started writing columns for Daily Jang and many other newspapers. The most distinguished character of Qasmi's columns is his satire on so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrahim Jalees
Ibrahim Jalees () born Ibrahim Hussain () on (22 August 1924 – 26 October 1977) was a Pakistani journalist, writer, and humorist. He authored several books of short stories such as ''Chalees Karor Bhikari'' and ''Tikona Des'' and the novel ''Chor Bazar''. He joined the Daily Jang newspaper and wrote his columns titled ''Waghaira Waghaira'' which made him famous. He also worked as an editor of ''Musawat'', Karachi, the daily newspaper of the Pakistan People's Party. Later he launched his own weekly magazine, ''Awami Adalat'' (Peoples Court). He was awarded the (''Tamgha-e-Husn-e-Karkrdagi'') Pride of Performance Award posthumously by the Government of Pakistan in 1990, in recognition of his literary contribution. Early life Ibrahim Jalees was born on 22 August 1924, in Bangalore, British India. He originally hailed from the Hyderabad State. His father Ahmed Hussain was a self-made man. His family migrated to Pakistan after the partition of British India. In 1940, he receiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Field Hockey
Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalkeeper. Teams must move a hockey ball around a field by hitting it with a field hockey stick, hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting circle and then into the goal (sports), goal. The match is won by the team that scores the most goals. Matches are played on grass, watered turf, artificial turf, although grass has become increasingly rare as a playing surface. Indoor hockey is usually played on a synthetic hard court or hardwood sports flooring, and beach version is played on sand. The stick has evolved significantly over the game's history in its composition and shape. Wooden sticks, though once standard, have become increasingly uncommon as technological advancements have made synthetic materials cheaper. Today, sticks are typicall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shahnaz Sheikh
Shahnaz Sheikh (born 21 March 1949) is a retired Pakistani field hockey player. He was born at Sialkot, Pakistan. He is related to Olympians Zahid Sheikh and Tariq Sheikh. In 2014, he was the head coach of Pakistan National Hockey Team. He was appointed head coach of Pakistan hockey team for Olympics Qualifier to be held in Oman in January 2024. A forward, Shahnaz Sheikh played between 1969 and 1978. He was capped 68 times and scored 45 goals for the Pakistan National Hockey Team. He won Silver in 1972 and Bronze in 1976 Olympics . Shahnaz won the 1971 Field Hockey World Cup and was runner-up in 1975 and won again in 1978. Shahnaz was one of the most skilled hockey players that Pakistan had produced. At the same time, Shahnaz was also an explosive player who stood tall among his contemporaries and would have easily walked into any field hockey side in the world. Having been given a feminine name, that was the only soft thing about him as he was a marauder on the left wing, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
