World’s Biggest Earth Filled Dam:
Tarbela Dam is constructed on the Indus
River, at Tarbela in Pakistan. The Dam is classified as the World’s
largest earth filled dam. While it is termed as the 2nd
largest dam by its structural volume. The dam has an elevation of 9000
ft from the sea level while it is 485 ft high from the riverbed. The
resulting water reservoir lake has a total surface area of 250 square
kilometers. Since its inception, it has played a vital role in
irrigation, hydroelectric power generation as well as flood control for
Pakistan.
2. World’s Largest Irrigation network:
Pakistan boasts world’s largest
irrigation network. The development of this irrigation system is one of
the major achievement of Pakistani engineers. This irrigitaion network
provides water to 90% of the agricultural land in Pakistan which amounts
to an area of 14.4 million hectares. This irrigation system consists
of three major reservoirs: Tarbela dam and Chashma dam are built on
river Indus while Mangla Dam is built on River Jhelum. The system is
composed of numerous barrages, headworks and canals. The total length of
all canals serving the agricultural land exceeds 58,500 km.
3. World’s Highest Paved International Road:
The Karakoram Highway has
been classified as World’s highest paved international road that serves
as a terrestrial link for the trade between Pakistan and China. The
road has an overall height of 4,693 meters (15,397 ft) above the sea
level. The construction of this road posed numerous logistical and and
technological challenges to Pakistani and Chinese Engineers. Many lost
their lives during the process. No doubt it is rightly refrerred to by
many as the Eight Wonder Of The World.
4. World’s Highest Density Processor:
The research and development of
microprocessors has played a vital role in the computers, smart devices
and telecommunication revolution that we see today. In this context, a
team of Pakistani engineers from the company Avaz Networks, under the
supervision of Dr Shoaib A. Khan, designed the World’s highest density
media processor for Voice Over Ip applications (VOIP). This single chip
processor has the unique capability to handle to 2000 simultaneous VOIP
calls.
5. World’s Biggest Deep Sea Port:
Gwadar port located in Balochistan, on
the shores of Arabian Sea, has been classified by experts as the world’s
largest warm water deep sea port. Its location is strategic because the
region surrounding it has world’s two-third oil. The port is also
poised to give China, Afghanistan, as well as, the landlocked and
mineral rich countries of central asia the easiest and cheapest access
to the Arabian sea. The port is only 533 km away from the city of
Karachi which is the economic capital of Pakistan.
6. World’s Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional
The title of the world’s youngest Microsoft certified professional from 2004-2008 was also held by a Pakistani girl named Arfa Abdul Karim Randhawa. She
was only nine years old when she acquired this title. She was
personally invited by Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, to meet her.
She also represented Pakistan at many tech and computer conferences.
However, her story had a tragic end as she died of cardiac arrest aged
just 16.
7. World’s Brightest A-Level Student
Ali Moeen Nawazish is a Pakistani student from the city of Rawalpindi who
made history by scoring record number of A’s in a single year while
studying for A levels at Trinity Hall, Cambridge university. He got 21
A’s in 2011 which is indeed a world record. Currently, he is also
working as a columnist to highlight the issues faced by youth in
Pakistan.
8. World’s 3rd biggest elance workforce
Elance is termed as the world’s largest
online platform where recruiters as well as freelancers from around the
world interact with each other. The recruiters mostly post jobs related
to the Web and mobile application development, Graphic designing,
creative/technical writing, scientific problem solving, marketing and
administration etc. There are free lancers from 158 countries that
compete to win and execute those jobs. Hence, the market is highly
competitive but Pakistanis accounts for one third of free lancers work
force. Currently, Pakistani work force earns 500 million dollars a year
in terms of revenues from Elance.
9. Pakistan Supplies 50% of World’s Footballs:
Pakistan is famous for the quality of its
sports equipment, especially, the one that is made in Sialkot. The most
notable product of Pakistani sports industry is the hand stitched
football. Around 60 million such footballs were produced this year
alone. Out of that 40 million were officially supplied for the Football
world cup held in Brazil.
10. World’s First Muslim Nuclear State:
The design of the nuclear bomb is a
complex challenge requiring expertise in multiple theoretical and
experimental sciences. On top of that, this technology and related
equipments are highly classified. That is why, only 7 nations in the
world declare to have this technology. Pakistan on 28th May 1998
became the first and the only muslim country to possess this technology
by successfully exploding six nuclear devices.
