STRANGE FACTS ABOUT PAKISTAN: Must Read

STRANGE FACTS ABOUT PAKISTAN


Largest beggar country.
Largest number of people killed in 2009 through suicide attacks.
Largest number of uneducated people in the World.
8th largest country by population.
Only country in the world losing its currency value against USD.
Only country in the world where exports don't rise even after 'net 40%
devaluation' of its currency, absolutely amazing!

This is Mind Blowing and at the same time sad when Trillionaire Becomes Beggars !


World's 1st Largest Salt Mine: Khewra salt mine has proven reserves of 300 million tons. This reserves could not be consumed in 600 years even at the rate of 5 lakh tons production every day.

World's 2nd Largest Coal Reserve: Thar Coal Reserve are around 850 trillion cubic feet which are equal 400 billion barrels of oil equal to the oil. coal reserves equal 618 billion barrels of oil. World's 3rd Largest Gas Reserves: Pakistan with gas reserves of 28tcf (current reserves 32.8tcf) So far about 52.7 TCF of gas reserves have been discovered World's 4th Largest Cotton Producer: Pakistan as the fourth largest cotton producer, third largest cotton consumer, second largest importer and with fourth largest cotton area. Real performance is counted in terms of yield per hectare and Pakistan has yield around Kgs 650 per hectare lagging behind dozens of countries.

World's 5th largest Copper & Gold Reserves: The Reko Diq is a large copper-gold porphyry resource on the Tethyan belt, located in the dry desert conditions of southwest Pakistan within the remote and sparsely populated province of Baluchistan. The Tethyan belt is a prospective region for large gold-copper porphyries. Barrick has a 50% interest in Tethyan Copper Company (the other 50% is owned by Antofagasta plc), which has a 75% interest in the Reko Diq project and associated mineral interests (for a resulting 37.5% interest in Reko Diq). As of December 31, 2007, Barrick's share of measured and indicated and inferred resources are 3.7 and 10.5 million ounces respectively. Barrick's share of measured and indicated and inferred copper are 4.3 and 13.4 billion pounds
respectively.


Reko Diq is a giant copper and gold project in Chaghi, containing 12.3
million tons of copper and 20.9 million ounces of gold in inferred and
indicated resources. The copper-gold deposits at Reko Diq are believed to be
even bigger than Sarcheshmeh in Iran and Escondida in Chile. The Reko Diq
copper deposits which is in the neighborhood of Saindak copper project, is
four times larger in copper ore tonnage than Saindak. The most credible
international surveys suggest that Reko Diq is one of the biggest
undeveloped copper projects in the world with over 11 billion pounds of
copper and nine million ounces of gold.

World's 5th largest Army: It was amazing to know that my great country Pakistan has the 5th biggest army of the world, but this doesn't means that the biggest is also the strongest as well, because the strongest would be the one which would have the latest technology weapons.

· World's 5th largest milk producer

· World's 11th largest wheat producer

· World's 12th largest rice producer


Only few countries on earth are lucky enough to have that much natural
resources. Then why are we at this stage ? What differentiates us from others? It's all about 'MINDSET'. Nothing will change as long as the 'MINDSET' of the leaders and the people changes.