1.

Worlds Biggest Earth Filled Dam:

Tarbela Dam is constructed on the Indus River, at Tarbela in Pakistan. The Dam is
classified as the Worlds 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. Worlds Largest Irrigation network:

Pakistan boasts worlds 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. Worlds Highest Paved International Road:

The Karakoram Highway has been classified as Worlds 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. Worlds 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 Worlds 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. Worlds Biggest Deep Sea Port:

Gwadar port located in Balochistan, on the shores of Arabian Sea, has been classified by
experts as the worlds largest warm water deep sea port. Its location is strategic because
the region surrounding it has worlds 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. Worlds Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional

The title of the worlds 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. Worlds Brightest A-Level Student

Ali Moeen Nawazish is a Pakistani student from the city of Rawalpindi who made history by
scoring record number of As in a single year while studying for A levels at Trinity Hall,
Cambridge university. He got 21 As 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. Worlds 3rd biggest elance workforce

Elance is termed as the worlds 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 Worlds 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. Worlds 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. DR ABDUL
QADEER, he actually fed upon grass and made a nuclear bomb.
Pakistan has five out of 14 mountain peaks of height over 8,000 metres (26,250 ft), that
attract adventurers and mountaineers from around the world, especially the second highest
mountain peak in the world K2, aka Godwin Austin
Pakistan is the only country to have won a Test match in its inaugural series against all
major Test playing nations
Pakistan reached the final of the inaugural cricket World Cup of Twenty20 and won the
second edition in 2009
Pakistan has won the hockey World Cup a record four times (1971, 1978, 1982, 1994)
Our very own Jahangir Khan is the only squash player to have won as many as 10 British
Open Championships enjoys an unbeaten streak of 555 weeks without losing a match, the
most impressive unbeaten run by any athlete, in any sport

Aisam ul Haq, the fourth-ranked player in mens doubles tennis is a Pakistani

Pakistan has produced the greatest left-arm fast bowler in the world (Wasim Akram), the
greatest all-rounder (Imran Khan) and one of the best finishers of the game (Javed
Miandad)
Pakistan won the only World Cup that was played on single-league basis in 1992
Pakistani student Ali Moeen Nawazish holds the world record for passing A-levels with 21
As
Late pop singer Nazia Hasan won the coveted Filmfare Award for Best Playback Singer for
her song Aap Jaisa Koi when she was still a teenager in 1980!
In 1979, our great Dr Abdus Salam won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the
electroweak unification of the electromagnetic and weak forces
We have the worlds largest privately owned ambulance charity service Edhi
Ambulance Services
Former Pakistani fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar holds the world record for the highest
electronically measured speed for a ball bowled. He bowled a delivery at 161.3 km/h
(100.23 mph) against England during the World Cup in 2003
A group of 19 Pakistani girls hold the world record for most people crammed into a smart
car
The fastest century in any form of international cricket was scored by Shahid Afridi in 1996
when he blasted 102 runs off just 37 balls against Sri Lanka
Master batsman Hanif Mohammad still holds the record for the longest individual Test
innings, of 337 runs, batting for 16 hours and 10 minutes against the West Indies in 1958
Pakistan hockey player Sohail Abbas holds the world record for scoring more than 300
goals in international matches
No player has scored more goals in hockey in a year (60) than Sohail Abbas who did so in
1999.
Malala Yousafzai became world youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner.