Pakistani tech firms win honours at P@SHA ICT Awards
JazzWorld's Teknosys took two gold and three merit prizes, while Innovative's Innomate earned a business services award in Islamabad.
Pakistani technology companies were recognised at the P@SHA ICT Awards 2026 in Islamabad, with JazzWorld's Teknosys taking two gold awards and three merit awards, and Innovative Pvt Ltd winning a business services award for its Innomate ATM monitoring platform.
The Associated Press of Pakistan reported that Teknosys, the software intelligence arm of JazzWorld, secured two Gold Awards and three Merit Awards. FikrFree won Gold in Banking, Insurance & Finance, and ROX won Gold in Media & Entertainment/Game of the Year. Meridian, Whispr and Onboarding Buddy received Merit Awards in Big Data Analytics, Marketing Solutions and Professional Services respectively. APP said the recognised solutions address a range of enterprise and other needs, without giving further details in the initial report.
ProPakistani reported separately that Innovative Pvt Ltd (IPL), which it described as Pakistan's number one self-service banking and currency technology provider, won the award in the Business Services, ICT Services Solutions category for Innomate. The publication called Innomate Pakistan's first and only ATM monitoring and management solution. It lets banks monitor multi-vendor ATMs, cash recyclers, deposit machines and kiosks through an interactive dashboard. A mobile application provides instant alerts and preemptive visibility of cash outages or technical problems, and allows remote actions to resolve issues, reducing manual intervention.
Naveed Ali Baig, chief executive of IPL, was quoted by ProPakistani as saying: "For years, the software that watched over Pakistan's ATMs was written somewhere else. Innomate was built here, by our own engineers, for the conditions our banks actually operate in." He added that a bank can control its entire fleet from a phone at any hour, and that the award recognises innovation clients rely on daily.
ProPakistani reported that this is Innomate's first national recognition and IPL's fourth consecutive year of honours at the P@SHA ICT Awards, after three FinTech category wins from 2023 to 2025. It is also the first time IPL has been recognised outside FinTech. The same report noted that founder-chairman Amir Wain received the Tamgha-i-Imtiaz in August 2026 and was named Fintech Leader of the Year at Juniper Research's 2026 Future Digital Awards.
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