Year 2022: The youth who made Pakistan proud

The sun of the year 2022 has set across the horizon with countless memories and the bright dawn of 2023 has dawned.

The year 2022: The youth who made Pakistan proud

 Iqbal had said that if it is slightly moist, this soil is very fertile.  These Shaheens of Iqbal flew high and proudly raised the country's flag in the whole world even in years of sorrows and troubles.

 Let us tell you about these bright stars.

 Babar Azam

Babar Azam

 Babar Azam, the captain of the Pakistan cricket team, has hardly any batting records that he has not broken, be it the record of being the number one T20I batsman for the longest time or the number one T20I batsman at the same time.  Babar Azam's name shines in the top five batsmen's record.

28-year-old Babar Azam has claimed the record for scoring the most runs in the year 2022, breaking the record of Muhammad Yousuf, who scored 2435 runs in 2006, after 16 years.

 Babar Azam also holds the record for scoring the most runs in a series as a captain and consecutively in T20Is.

 Babar also has the honor of captaining the most number of matches.

 Babar Azam scored 9 fifty-plus runs in Tests, 8 in ODIs, and 10 fifty-plus runs in T20s this year, while also equaling Ricky Ponting's record for most fifties in a year.

 In the year 2022, Babar Azam has become the 11th Pakistani player to score 11,000 runs in international cricket.

 He equaled the record of Indian batsman Virat Kohli for scoring the fastest 3000 runs in T20 international cricket and claimed another honor.

 Babar Azam has also been named the International Cricket Council (ICC) player of the month three times.

 Babar Azam has played 90 T20Is, 92 ODIs, and 47 Tests in his career, in which he has scored two centuries in T20I matches, 17 in ODIs, and 9 centuries in Test matches.

Arooj Aftab

Arooj Aftab

 In the field of music last year, Pakistani youths also did not lag behind anyone. In 2022, Pakistani-American singer Arooj Aftab became the first Pakistani singer to win a Grammy Award.

 Arooj Aftab was nominated for the first "Grammy Award" in the year 2021, Arooj has also been nominated for the 2023 Grammy Awards.

 Arooj is the only singer of Pakistani origin who has been nominated for music's highest award for two consecutive years.

 Samina Baig

Samina Baig

 Pakistani mountaineer Samina Baig, the winner of all the highest peaks in the world, has won many honors, Samina Baig is the only Pakistani woman so far who has climbed all the seven highest peaks of all seven continents, including Mount Everest and K2.  

 In the year 2022, Samina Baig set a new record by making two heads.

 Samina Baig has twice been appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador by the United Nations and has also been honored with the Pride of Performance Award by the Government of Pakistan.

 32-year-old Samina Baig belongs to the Shamshal area of Hunza district in Gilgit-Baltistan where many people are mountaineers.

 Shafiqa Iqbal

 

Shafiqa Iqbal

Pakistani students worldwide are making their own unique mark in the field of computer sciences, the best example of this is Shafiqa Iqbal from Sadiqabad, Punjab, who is working for the world-famous company "Google".

 24-year-old Shafiqa Iqbal is a data engineer, who has the honor of being the first Pakistani to work in the Warsaw Google Poland office.

 Shafiqa Iqbal was selected by Google through LinkedIn, before working at Google she has also been working as a top-rated seller on Upwork, representing Pakistan on behalf of women in tech.

 Shahruz Kashif

Shahruz Kashif

 Pakistani mountaineer Shahroz Kashif is currently the youngest Pakistani mountaineer, in 2022 Shahroz has achieved many achievements.

 On July 5, 2022, Shahruz Kashif took the honor of being the world's youngest climber by climbing Nanga, the world's ninth-highest peak.

 He is the only Pakistani mountaineer who has climbed three peaks of 8000 meters in just 23 days, the world's third highest Kanchan Janga (8586 m) on May 5, 2022, the fourth highest Lhotse (8516 m) on May 16, 2022, and the fifth highest Makalu (  8463) had the honor of heading

 Earlier, Shahroz had climbed two of the world's second highest and most difficult peaks, Mount Everest, Broad Peak, Makra Peak (3885 m), Musa Ka Masla (4080 m), Chambra Peak (4600 m), Mangalik Sir (6050 m).  , also heads Gonduguru La Pass (5585 m), Khurdupan Pass (5800) and Kehsar Kunj (6050 m).

 He summited Broad Peak in 2019 at the age of 17, after which he was called 'The Broad Boy'.

 Shahruz Kashif has also received 2 Guinness World Record certificates for climbing the 2 highest peaks.  For his outstanding services, the Sports Board of Punjab has also appointed him as the Youth Ambassador of Punjab.

 Rafi Baloch

Rafi Baloch

 28-year-old Rafi Baloch, who gained fame as a cyber security expert and ethical hacker for finding flaws in Google and Android, has been included in the lists of top cyber experts by the world's leading cyber security journals on various occasions.

 Rafi Baloch is working as a Senior Consultant at Pakistan Telecommunication Authority after his Masters's in Cybersecurity Forensics from London.

 Pakistani hacker Rafi Baloch was also honored with the "Pride of Pakistan" award on 23 March 2022 by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) of the Army for his outstanding services in the field of cyber security.

 Ali Sethi 

Ali Sethi

 Singer Ali Sethi, who rose to fame with "Pasoori" in the year 2022, has been included in its annual '100 Next' list by the renowned American magazine Time magazine, he is the only Pakistani singer to be included in the list.

 Time magazine launched the 100 Next lists in 2020, which includes the 100 best personalities from around the world.

 Shai Gul

Shai gul

 In the world of music, many young people have taken the country to the global level, including Shai Gill, the goddess of fortune who was kind to Ali Sethi for the song "Psuri" released under Coke Studio Season 14.  Also reached the heights of fame.

 He started his career in 2019 with the social media platform Instagram.

 The popularity of this song released under Coke Studio Season 14 can be gauged from the fact that the song has been viewed and listened to more than 406 million times on YouTube so far.

 The said song became the first song of Coke Studio Season 14 to get 1 million views in the first 24 hours of its release while also becoming one of the most searched songs on Google Trends.

  Dr. Mehwish Sharif

Dr. Mehwish Sharif 

 If the motivation and passions are high, no disability can hinder the way to reaching the destination, this saying was made true by Dr. Mehwish Sharif of Balochistan with hard work and consistency.

 Dr. Mehwish Sharif is Pakistan's first hearing-impaired doctor, she is currently working in the tuberculosis ward of Fatima Jinnah Chest Hospital in Balochistan.

 25-year-old Dr. Mehwish belongs to a remote village in the Kutch district of central Balochistan.

 Hafiz Waleed Malik 

Hafiz Waleed Malik

 Hafiz Waleed Malik has set a new record not only in Pakistan but worldwide by getting 29 gold medals in MBBS.

 Hafiz Waleed Malik has set a record by winning 29 gold medals in the examinations organized by Health Sciences in the five-year academic period.

 Earlier, the student of King Edwards Medical College had made a record of getting 23 gold medals in Ph.D.

 When it comes to the playground, the Pakistani youth is no less than anyone there, wherever the playgrounds were established in Pakistan, the Pakistani youth proudly raised the name of the country at the international level.

 Bisma Maruf

Bisma Maruf

  Pakistan women's team captain Bisma Maruf has the honor of being the Pakistani cricketer who has played the most one-day matches.

 Bisma is the only known Pakistani female cricketer who holds the record for scoring the most runs in both ODI and T20 formats in June 2022.

 In the history of international women's cricket, she set a world record of scoring 3017 runs without a century in ODI matches.

 Bisma, who started her career in 2006, has played more than 200 matches and captained the team between 2013 and 2020.

  He took a break from cricket before confirming his return in December 2021 ahead of the 2022 World Cup.  Bisma Maruf also made headlines last year when she arrived at the stadium carrying her six-month-old daughter during the ICC Women's World Cup match between Pakistan and India.

 Although the Green Shirts lost the ICC Women's World Cup match against India, her picture with her daughter went viral on social media and she received praise from all over the world.

 Bisma Maruf will be conferred with Tagha Imtiaz by the President of Pakistan on 23 March 2023 in honor of her services.

 Muhammad Noh Dastagir Butt

Mohammad Noah Dastgir Butt

  Pakistan's 24-year-old weightlifter Mohammad Noah Dastgir Butt won the country's first gold medal at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

  It is the second time in the history of the Commonwealth Games that a Pakistani weightlifter has won the gold medal, earlier in 2006, Shujauddin Malik won the gold medal in the 85 kg category at the events held in Melbourne.

 Noah hails from Gujranwala and inherited his passion for weightlifting.

 Noah Dastgir Butt won the gold medal in the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship held in Gold Coast in 2017 and he was also able to win the bronze medal in the Commonwealth Games held in Australia.

 Noh Dastgir was awarded the Imtiaz medal in the year 2022 by the government for his excellent performance and excellent services.

 Ahsan Ramadan

Ahsan Ramadan 

 16-year-old Ahsan Ramadan won the honor of being the youngest World Amateur Snooker Champion in 2022.

 Ahsan Ramadan defeated Iran's far more experienced player Amir Sarkosh by six frames to five in the final of the International Billiards Snooker Federation World Snooker Championship in Doha, Qatar in March 2022.

 The government awarded the Imtiaz medal in the year 2022 for his excellent performance and services.

 Arshad Nadeem

Arshad Nadeem

  25-year-old Arshad Nadeem, who created a new history in the javelin throw competition of the 22nd Commonwealth Games, made Pakistan's name in athletics, Arshad not only won the gold medal by throwing a javelin throw of 90.18 meters in Birmingham but also won the Commonwealth Games competitions.  A new record has also been established.

 Arshad is the second South Asian athlete to have thrown over 90 meters in the javelin throw event, Pakistan's first gold medal in Commonwealth Games track and field events in the last 60 years.

 Saim Sadiq

Saeem Sadiq

 Pakistani director, writer, and actor Saeem Sadiq's short film Joyland were included in the list of the world's biggest film awards Oscars in December 2022.

 Saeem Sadiq's film Joyland has been shortlisted in the International Feature Film category at the 95th Oscars.

 Earlier, in 2022, this film earned the honor of becoming the first Pakistani film to win the Jury Award at Cannes, the world's biggest film festival.

 Joyland bagged awards in two categories including the 'Jury Prize in a Certain Regard' and the 'Cannes Qayyur Palam prize.

 In 2019, Saim Sadiq's short film Darling was screened at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals.