With the Grace of Almighty Allah, our beloved country has stepped up to write another chapter of its history by entering into “80s” of its history, having completed its 70 years. NetMag team as always has gathered some interesting facts which will allow you to have a glimpse of this great Nation. Hopefully, the country will shine like a star on the Earth, out of our hard work to prove our love for it.
Unity + Multiple innovative ideas (glimpse of individual work force) = Quaid’s Pakistan
Following the above written bold words, the nation might be interestingly divided into 3 classes according to their point of view. If a group with inclusion of myself stuck to the hope of progression in the country, the other group will say “nothing good is going to happen” everything will remain the same or worse….. and a third group will only say “let the thought of country’s happenings go” just do what you can for yourself, and go on seeing what happens around…
In case that differently classified thought is changed into a united force like positive thought; which works collaboratively to eradicate the negativism if some negative happenings Pakistan faces, and works in the same manner to create the environment that only the positivism is seen in the country; no force in the world can stop Pakistan to be enlisted in those are called developed countries.
I don’t know why people only focus on the dark side of the picture, while they are well aware of the fact they there is also a charmingly colored side too available to focus upon. While talking about the terrorism, corruption, and other such kinds of dark aspects of Pakistan’s history why we people always forget to realize that the corruption done either by our little clerks or the ministers is actually our own disqualification because we enabled them to take a chance to do all that. The Same case is with the terrorism, we are somehow working behind these terrorists and supporting their activities in the country. Only a deep thought and strong decision power is required to remove all the anti-Pakistan factors from the sacred soil.
I am here to share a bright side of the picture, with a hope that people having objections for Pakistan will start seeing the brightness of Pakistan; and a glimpse of this brightness shown below, regarding some amazing achievements of Pakistan in Science and Technology.
World’s Largest Irrigation network:
Pakistan boasts world’s largest irrigation network which provides water to 90% of the agricultural land in Pakistan amounting to an area of 14.4 million hectares. This irrigation system is composed of numerous barrages, headworks, and canals, consists of three reservoirs: Tarbela dam and Chashma dam that are built on river Indus while Mangla Dam is built on River Jehlum. The total length of all canals serving the agricultural land is more than 58,500 km.
World’s Biggest Earth Filled Dam:
Tarbela Dam, constructed on the Indus River, at Tarbela in Pakistan, is classified as the World’s largest earth filled dam. While it is known as the 2nd largest dam by its structural volume having an elevation of 9000 ft from the sea level and 485 ft high from the riverbed. The water reservoir lake has a surface area of 250 square kms. Since its inception, glimpse of it played a vital role in irrigation, hydroelectric power generation and flood control for Pakistan.
World’s Highest Paved International Road, a glimpse of 8th Wonder Of The World:
The Karakoram Highway is the World’s highest paved international road having an overall height of 4,693 meters (15,397 ft) above the sea level, serves as a terrestrial link for trade between Pakistan and China. Pakistani and Chinese Engineers faced numerous logistical and technological challenges during the construction of this road, many lost their lives too. It is referred as the 8th Wonder Of The World.
World’s Highest Density Processor:
A team of Pakistani engineers from “Avaz Networks”, in the supervision of Dr. Shoaib A. Khan, designed the highest density media processor in the world, for Voice Over Ip applications (VOIP) Which possesses the unique capability to handle to 2000 simultaneous VOIP calls.
World’s 3rd biggest eLance workforce
Elance, the world’s largest online platform where recruiters and freelancers from 158 countries interact with each other and compete to win and execute jobs, and post jobs related to the Web and mobile application development, Graphic designing, creative/technical writing, scientific problem solving, marketing and administration etc.Here Pakistanis account for one-third of the freelancers work force and earn 500 million dollars a year in terms of revenues from Elance.
World’s Biggest Deep Sea Port:
Gwadar port, in Balochistan, (53 Km away from Karachi the economic capital of Pakistan) on the shores of Arabian Sea, is the world’s largest warm water deep sea port. Having strategic location because of the region surrounding it has world’s two-third oil. The port is also poised to give Afghanistan, China, and the landlocked and mineral rich countries of central Asia the cheapest and easiest access to the Arabian sea
World’s Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional
Arfa Kareem Randhawa became the world’s youngest Microsoft certified professional from 2004-2008 only at the age of nine. Bill Gates the founder of Microsoft personally invited her to meet. She represented Pakistan at many tech and computer conferences but tragically she died of cardiac arrest aged 16.
World’s Brightest A-Level Student
Ali Moeen Nawazish a Pakistani student from Rawalpindi made history by scoring a record number of A’s in one year while studying for A level student at Trinity Hall, Cambridge university. He got 21 A’s in 2011 and set a world record.
Pakistan Supplies 50% of World’s Footballs:
Hand stitched football from Sialkot, Pakistan are famous around the world for quality. If 60 million footballs are produced in a year, 40 million are officially supplied for the Football world cup matches.
World’s First Muslim Nuclear State:
Due to the complex design, challenge requiring expertise in multiple theoretical and experimental sciences, and need for highly classified equipment, only 7 nations in the world claim to have the Nuclear technology. Pakistan became the first and the only Muslim country to have this technology on 28th May 1998, by successfully exploding six nuclear devices.
We must remember that Pakistan is facing numerous challenges from the time it came into existence, but despite those challenges, if Pakistan can make such amazing achievements, it can do everything.
Independence is not the name of criticizing only. It actually gives you right to have a glimpse your abilities and today we have to join hands and start working together following a slogan “we can do, we will do and we have to do” because we have to survive in the world as a civilized and nation and developed country.
