Amazing Achievements Of Pakistan

Pakistan came into being on 14th August, 1947. Despite being a new nation and suffering

many setbacks due to bad governance, it managed to have some wonderful achievements

in the field of science, engineering and technology. Below I am describing some of the

unique achievements of Pakistani scientists and engineers, some of them were individual

but majority of them were the result of team work.

1. 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, head works 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 technological challenges

to Pakistani and Chinese Engineers. Many lost their lives during the process. No doubt it is

rightly referred to by many as the Eighth 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 Baluchistan, 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 equipment’s

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.

CONCLUSION:

This is not the end of the trail. There are countless other Pakistanis working either as

individuals or in teams that are bringing a positive image of Pakistan into the lime light and

are laying the framework for positive social chance.