Today, we hear so much negativity about Pakistan in local and international news that even some of us have began to consider it a meaningless country with nothing noteworthy. However, these facts may help to change your opinion and help see Pakistan in a new light.
- Pakistan is the largest hand-sewn football manufacturer of the world, producing nearly 70 to 80 % of the world's footballs. All of this done at Sialkot where the football manufacturing industry now consists of 200 factories.
- The National Anthem tune of Pakistan is ranked 1st in the top 3 tunes of the world and 1st in the world's national anthems.
- Pakistan is the world's seventh and Islamic world's first country to attain nuclear power.
- Pakistan has the highest paved highway in the world, The Karakoram Highway, which is also unofficially known as the 8th wonder of the world.
- Pakistan has the largest irrigation system in the world, supplying water to nearly 72% of the Pakistan's population associated with agriculture.
- Founded by a noble philanthropist, Abdul Sattar Edhi, The Edhi ambulance service is the world's largest volunteer ambulance network, with a continuously growing fleet of 1800 ambulances.
- Pakistan has the fastest literacy growth rate among all developing countries, with a growth of 250% since 2009.
- The late Arfa Karim is the youngest Microsoft Certified expert in the world. Babar Iqbal is another pride of Pakistan, second to Arfa Karim in the same achievement.
- Pakistan has 14 of the world's highest peaks and 8 of the 20 highest peaks. K2 is the 2nd highest peak in the world which is located in Pakistan. Other significant peaks are Nanga Parbat, Rakaposhi and Tirich Mir etc. 5 of its peaks are higher than 8,000 metres.
- In 1994, Pakistan became the world's first country to hold 4 world cup titles in different sports simultaneously. The sports are: Cricket, Squash, Hockey and Snooker.
- Jahangir Khan, one of the world's best squash players, is a Pakistani. He won the British Open title 10 times which is a record and to top it, in one title he didn't lose a single point.
- The Pakistan air force is recognized as one of the world's top air forces, the credit of superb training going to Air Force academy in Risalpur.
- Pakistan has 2 Nobel Prize winners, Dr. Abdus Salam in 1979, as a physicist and the 2nd by Malala Yousafzai in 2014 for her efforts for peace and education for girls.
- Pakistan missile technology is one of the best in the world, making a large amount of some of the world's best missiles in a very short time.
- Pakistan is a proud jet manufacturer with the recent JF-17 Thunder beginning to be exported as well.
- Pakistan has the world's 7th largest pool of scientists and engineers and a huge number of highly qualified doctors. No surprise, right? *winks*
- Air Commodore M.M Alam is credited with shooting down 5 planes in less than a minute, a world record which is yet to be broken.
- Gwadar is the world's largest deep sea warm water port located in Baluchistan.
- Pakistan has the world's 6th largest population.
- Pakistan is ranked the world's 9th superpower in terms of military strength.
- Pakistan has the world's 6th largest army.
- The Pakistani special forces, SSG commandos are ranked 6th most dangerous special forces in the world in 2018 and in 2015, they were at the top of the list.
- Pakistan is the home to two of the world's oldest civilizations, Mohenjo-Daro and Indus Valley.
- The Khewra Salt Mine is the second largest and oldest salt mine in the world.
- The world's highest polo ground is in Shandur Top, Pakistan, at a height of 3,700 metres.
- Tarbela Dam on Indus River is the largest earth-filled dam in the world and second largest by structural volume.
- The Indus River in Pakistan is the only home to the extremely rare Blind Dolphin.
- Pakistanis are the fourth most intelligent people in the world. Seriously?
- The Biafo Glacier is the world's largest glacier outside the polar regions.
- Pakistan has the world's largest man made forest, Changa Manga.
- Islamabad, Pakistan is ranked as the world's second most beautiful capital.
- Pakistan hosts the world's largest refugee population.
- ISI, Pakistan's intelligence corps is known as the best in the world, even better than CIA.
- Pakistan is the world's 4th largest milk producer.
- Pakistan is the largest producer of the world's surgical instruments.
- pakistan is the wolrd's 4th largest cotton producing country.
- Thar desert is the world's 9th largest sub-tropical desert.
- More than 60 languages are spoken in Pakistan.
- Pakistan is the only country to be formed on basis of religion.
- The flag of Pakistan is ranked as the 5th most beautiful flag in the world.
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