Category Archives: World Record

Pakistan’s Babar Iqbal sets new record in the field of Digital Forensic Science

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Babar Iqbal, a 14 year old whiz kid from Dera Ismail Khan, has set a world record by publishing his first research paper on digital forensic science. The field of Digital Forensic Science covers the recovery and investigation of data in digital devices and is often used to aid computer crime investigations.
Babar’s research pertains to Apple iDevices (iPad, iPhone, iPod) and has been accepted by the 8th IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology. He has been invited to present his research at the conference as well.
What sets his method apart is that it doesn’t require jailbreaking and can image an iDevice in less than 30 minutes.
Jailbreaking is gaining illegal root access to iOS, Apple’s operating system, through use of custom kernels. Devices which run iOS include the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. On a jailbroken device, one could download application, themes and other stuff that is unavailable through the official Apple store.
This new method can aid law enforcement agencies in retrieving digital forensic evidence present on the phone including contacts, texts, all multimedia items as well as GPS info and Cellphone tower logs which can triangulate location of device at certain point in time.
This isn’t the first time Babar has been in the spotlight, a programmer since the age of 5, he became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) as well as the youngest Certified Internet Web Professional (CIWA) at the age of nine.
He then went on to become the youngest Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA), youngest Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) and youngest Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in .NET 3.5 at the age of 10, 11 and 12 respectively.
Babar is currently in Dubai, where he is training and working with Microsoft. The links for his website and Students Café, his initiative to create awareness about Information Technology in Pakistan and around the world at all levels of education, are given below:

News Details: ProPakistani.Pk

Muhammad Zubair breaks world record in indoor rowing

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Muhammad Zubair, a Pakistani youth, broke the world record of individual longest continual rowing in the world.

Muhammad Zubair, 31, a marketing executive of private gym, has rowed continuously for 10 hours in an Indore fitness club in federal capital and broke the world record an Australian citizen named Shane Usher who rowed for 7 hours and 11 minutes (72 kilometer).

Zubair stopped short of completing 100 kilometers for which he started again to finish the remaining 1,200 meters in roughly six minutes.

News Details: The News Tribe

Pakistan’s national anthem singing record approved by GWR

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Karachi: Guinness World Record has officially recognized and approved a Pakistani record for the most number of people singing national anthem simultaneously.
The event organizer Abid Beli told The News Tribe that the guinness world record has officially recognised the Pakistani record on Thursday.

The record was achieved by5,857 enthusiastic people under the banner of ‘I Own Pakistan’ at the DA Zamzama Club, Karachi, Pakistan, on 14 August 2011.

They beat the previous record of 5,248, achieved by students, staff, faculty and alumni of MSU-IIT (Philippines) who sang ‘Lupang Hinirang’ Philippines’ National Anthem, at the MSU-IIT gymnasium, in Iligan, Philippines, on 1 September 2009.

Earlier, The Guinness Book of World Record had deleted an Indian record of singing national anthem after Pakistani youth Abid Beli with his friends email to the organizers of the Guinness, requesting that Indian record of singing national anthem by a large number of people at one time should be deleted as the Indians have made the record by singing Vande Mataram, that is not the India’s national anthem.

News Details: The News Tribe