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The gifted Junior
Under Officer
Uqbah
Hadeed Malik
(now Capt.)
won the coveted
sword of
honor at the
Royal Military
Academy at
Sandhurst in
UK at the age
of 22. He was
declared as the
best overall int
e r n a t i o n a l
cadet.
18-year old Ali Moeen Nawazish from Rawalpindi made a
world record by securing 22 A’s in A-level examinations at
the University of Cambridge. He is also acknowledged by
the Guinness Book of Records for this outstanding achievement.
Dr. Atique Samdani was awarded
Physician of the Year Award in
USA
The world's youngest Microsoft
Certified Professional is a Pakistani.
There is one common trait amongst all of these high-achievers;
they all had an extra-ordinary ‘will’ to do well in their respective
areas and were extremely focused in their pursuits.
They were also able to adapt to the best of their abilities to
‘change’ in pursuit of their goals. The above are few examples
of Pakistanis who have outshined other nations which suggests
the talent that we all can leverage provided we have the
‘will’ and right ‘intentions’. And then there are other phenomenal
achievements of recent times in the field of
telecommunications and biometrics databases:
2000 and within a span of few years the number stands at
around 98 million mobile users.
Pakistan is the most connected country in South Asia, with
the highest teledensity in terms of mobile access per hundred
people which stands at 62%.
Pakistan has the world's largest biometric database
(NADRA); this system (not the data) is now being provided
to allied countries.
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of
their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
The following extract from a speech by J.K. Rowling, the author
of Harry Potter who spoke to Harvard graduates on June
5, 2008 offers a very unique perspective:
'If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your
voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to
identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless;
if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of
those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only
be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but
thousands and millions of people whose reality you have
helped change. We do not need magic to change the world;
we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we
have the power to imagine better'
And our great founder of the nation Muhammad Ali Jinnah
rightly points out:
'With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is
nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.'
The greatest example of a man who really brought an extra
ordinary change for the generations to come can be attributed
to our beloved Quaid, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, as somebody
very rightly points out:
'The change in the world is always brought by one man,
whom we call "the leader". Who has the vision and the force
not only to make people dream, but to reach and live that
dream. He is intelligent enough to foresee tomorrow. He is
selfless and courageous to the extent of being ready to scarifies
everything and express truth even if it defames him. People
fellow him wherever he takes them. He is the one who
accelerates history and for whom
nature proclaims itself. "What a
man".'
God bless Pakistan.
There were 300,000 mobile users in Pakistan in the year
12