FACTS ABOUT PAKISTAN 2
- World’s highest Polo ground is in Pakistan where Shundur Polo festival is being organized.
- Pakistan’s national animal is Markhor.
- Since 1995, Pakistani doctor, Muhammad Mustansar has been collecting pacifiers as an educational movement against them. The collection now amounts to 1,994 pacifiers of different colors and shapes, each obtained from individual mothers.
- In 1988, Benazir Bhutto became the first woman to be elected as the head of a Muslim state (Pakistan).
- Pakistan is sixth largest country in production of dates.
- Pakistan holds four out of fourteen highest peaks in the world. K2 is the second highest mountain in the world.
- Wateen Telecom and Motorola together rolled out the largest and the first in the world WiMax 802.16e network nationwide in 22 cities of Pakistan.
- A baby is born in Pakistan every 7 seconds.
- Dr. Abdus Salam was responsible for sending about 500 physicists, mathematicians and scientists form Pakistan, for doctorates to the best institutions in UK and US.
- A kurta, large enough to be worn by a 175 foot tall person form fashion designer Deepak Perwani in Karachi has been given the certificate of being the world’s largest by Guinnes Book of World Records.
- Irtiza Haider, a Pakistani student of class 8 from Faisalabad (12 years old) has been crowned to be the world’s youngest Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA). He did it by answering 80 percent of the questions correctly in 2 hours, in order to pass the CCNA test.
- Khewra salt mine, the second largest salt mine in the world is in Pakistan.
- In 2013, Pakistan set a world record for the most saplings planted in a day, with an impressive 750,000 mangrove tree saplings.
- Allama Iqbal was awarded the Khan Bahadurddin F.S. Jalaluddin medal due to his outstanding Arabic skills.
- Tarbela Dam on the Indus River in Pakistan is the largest earth filled dam in the world and is second largest by the structural volume.
- Mango is the national fruit of Pakistan.
- The largest flaming candle image took place at the Serena Hotel in Faisalabad, Pakistan when 48 people lit 8,154 candles to create the Sandoz logo on December 31, 2003.
- Pakistan ranks 26th in economies of the world.
- A Pakistani girl, Arfa Abdul Karim Randhawa became a Microsoft Certified Professor in 2004 at the age of nine. She also received the President’s Award for Pride of Performance.
- Pakistan’s national bird is the Chakor partridge (Alectoris Chakor).
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