Guinness World Records of Pakistan: Complete List of Pakistani Record Holders

Pakistan holds Guinness World Records across sport, conservation, medicine and mass participation. Verified Pakistani titles include Jahangir Khan’s 555-match unbeaten run in squash, Shoaib Akhtar’s 161.3 km/h delivery, and 847,275 mangroves planted in 24 hours.

This article lists the Guinness World Records held or set by Pakistanis, with the year each was set and whether it still stands. Records that could not be verified against Guinness World Records or against multiple independent reports were left out rather than repeated.

Summary Table of Pakistani Guinness World Records

The verified records are summarised in the table below, ordered with the currently standing titles first.

Which Guinness World Records Does Pakistan Currently Hold?

Pakistan currently holds thirteen verified Guinness World Records or record listings across sport, charity, conservation, technology and mass participation. Each is described below with its holder, figure and year.

1. Longest unbeaten run in squash, male, Jahangir Khan, 1981 to 1986. Guinness World Records credits Jahangir Khan with 555 consecutive wins from November 1981 to November 1986, ended by Ross Norman in the 1986 World Open final in Toulouse. It is the longest winning streak recognised in any top-level professional sport. Researchers have questioned whether the exact figure of 555 can be reconstructed from period match records, since no body tracked the streak at the time, but the five-and-a-half-year run itself is not disputed.
2. Fastest delivery of a cricket ball, male, Shoaib Akhtar, 2003. Shoaib Akhtar bowled at 161.3 km/h, or 100.23 mph, to Nick Knight of England at Newlands in Cape Town on 22 February 2003 during the World Cup. The title has stood for more than two decades. The International Cricket Council notes that speed guns are not uniform across grounds, which is why the governing body treats such measurements with caution while Guinness World Records still lists the delivery.
3. Largest volunteer ambulance organisation, Edhi Foundation. Abdul Sattar Edhi began the ambulance service in Karachi in 1948 and the operation entered Guinness World Records as the largest volunteer ambulance organisation in 1997. The Guinness entry describes a fleet of 500 vehicles, while the Edhi Foundation itself reports more than 1,800 ambulances in service today; the two figures conflict because the Guinness listing has not been re-measured.
4. Most trees planted in 24 hours by a team, Sindh Forest Department, 2013. A team of 300 planted 847,275 mangrove saplings at Kharochan in Thatta District, Sindh, on 22 June 2013. The same department had already set the record on 15 July 2009 with 541,176 saplings in the Indus delta, taking the title from Assam in India, so Pakistan holds this record twice over and broke its own mark.
5. Largest human image of a waving national flag, 2024. A total of 10,248 schoolchildren from the Lahore Garrison Education System formed a waving Pakistan flag in Lahore on 6 November 2024, using white, green and black clothing. The attempt took the title from an Indian record set in Sonipat earlier the same year.
6. Youngest Nobel Prize laureate, Malala Yousafzai, 2014. Malala Yousafzai was 17 years, 2 months and 23 days old when she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 10 October 2014, jointly with Kailash Satyarthi of India. She is the youngest laureate of any Nobel Prize, not only of the Peace Prize, and the previous youngest was the physicist William Lawrence Bragg at 25 in 1915.
7. Youngest gamer to earn one million US dollars in esports, Sumail Hassan Syed, 2015. Sumail Hassan Syed of Karachi was 16 years, 2 months and 21 days old when his Dota 2 winnings passed one million dollars after Evil Geniuses won The International 2015. Guinness World Records recorded the milestone that August.
8. Most successful tennis serves in one minute, male, Talha Waheed, 2024. Talha Waheed landed 59 successful serves in one minute in Lahore on 8 November 2024, beating the 42 set by John Perry of the United States in 2019. Guinness World Records ratified the attempt on 10 March 2025, and the Pakistan Tennis Federation confirmed the certificate that June.
9. Fastest time to climb around a person, Irfan and Sufiyan Mehsood, 2024. Irfan Mehsood and his son Sufiyan Mehsood recorded 7.87 seconds at Dera Ismail Khan on 19 June 2024. Irfan Mehsood is one of two Pakistanis with more than 100 individual Guinness titles.
10. Largest balloon mosaic in the shape of a flag, Pakistan Hindu Council, 2019. The Pakistan Hindu Council assembled a Pakistan flag measuring 180.172 square metres from balloons in Islamabad on 5 August 2019.
11. Largest cookie mosaic in the shape of a flag, Peek Freans Sooper, 2017. Peek Freans Sooper laid more than 150,000 biscuits into a Pakistan flag covering 226.51 square metres in Islamabad on 14 August 2017, the country’s seventieth Independence Day. The mosaic took roughly six and a half hours to build and the biscuits were donated to charities afterwards. No later holder of this title has been identified.
12. Youngest Test match player, male, Hasan Raza, 1996. Guinness World Records lists Hasan Raza as making his Test debut for Pakistan against Zimbabwe at Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad, on 24 October 1996 at a reported 14 years and 227 days. The listing carries a genuine dispute: medical testing later cast doubt on his birth date and the Pakistan Cricket Board withdrew the claim, with his real age at debut estimated nearer 15. The record cannot now be beaten in any case, because the International Cricket Council introduced a minimum debut age of 15 in 2018.
13. Longest gall bladder removed, Dr Naeem Taj, 2011. Pakistani newspapers including The News, the Express Tribune, The Nation and Pakistan Today reported that the laparoscopic surgeon Dr Naeem Taj received a Guinness World Records certificate for removing a 25.5 cm gall bladder through a one centimetre incision, beating a 24 cm gall bladder removed by open surgery in India. The same reports credit him with removing 5,568 gallstones from one patient in 2011. This entry rests on press reporting rather than on a current listing in the public Guinness database, and it is included on that basis.

Which Pakistani Guinness World Records Have Been Broken?

Four widely repeated Pakistani records no longer stand. Pages that list them without a status are describing a situation that ended years ago.

14. Largest human national flag, 2012, broken in 2014. A total of 24,200 people formed the Pakistan flag at the National Hockey Stadium in Lahore on 22 October 2012 during the Punjab Youth Festival, taking the title from a Hong Kong record of 21,726. Rotary International District 3230 and News 7 Tamil broke it in Chennai on 7 December 2014 with 43,830 participants, and India holds it now. Pakistan’s 2024 flag record is a different title, for the largest human image of a waving flag.
15. Most people singing a national anthem simultaneously, 2012, broken in 2017. At the same Lahore festival on 22 October 2012, 42,813 people sang the Pakistani national anthem together, taking the record from an Indian mark of 15,243. The current holder is Shree Khodal Dham Trust of India, with 509,261 singers at Kagvad on 21 January 2017.
16. Fastest ODI century, Shahid Afridi, 1996, broken in 2014 and again in 2015. Shahid Afridi reached a hundred off 37 balls against Sri Lanka in Nairobi on 4 October 1996, in only his second one-day international, and the mark stood for 18 years. Corey Anderson of New Zealand cut it to 36 balls in 2014 and AB de Villiers of South Africa to 31 balls on 18 January 2015. Afridi’s innings is the reference point for the record rather than the record itself today.
17. Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional, Arfa Karim, 2004, broken in 2008. Arfa Karim Randhawa passed the Microsoft Certified Professional examination in 2004 at the age of nine and held the distinction until 2008, when Marko Calasan of North Macedonia certified at eight. The full biography of Arfa Karim, the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional, covers her awards, her meeting with Bill Gates and her death.

Who Holds the Most Guinness World Records in Pakistan?

Rashid Naseem of Karachi holds the most Guinness World Records of any Pakistani. Guinness World Records data reported in January 2026 credited him with 150 individual titles, the first athlete anywhere to reach that number, and Pakistani outlets have since reported further approvals taking his running total past 154.

Rashid Naseem is a martial arts instructor from Shah Faisal Colony who founded the Pakistan Academy of Martial Arts. His record-breaking began in 2013 with 40 bottle caps removed by head in one minute at the Punjab Youth Festival in Lahore. Guinness World Records profiled him in September 2020, when he held more than 30 titles and had set a target of 100. His categories include punching, striking, breaking, nunchaku, skipping and jumping jacks, and the Express Tribune reported his 386 full-contact punches in 60 seconds in July 2025.

Irfan Mehsood of South Waziristan, based in Dera Ismail Khan, is the second Pakistani past the 100-title mark, reported in August 2024. His records cover push-ups, squats, jumping jacks, squat thrusts, step-ups, knee strikes, elbow strikes and standing jumps, many of them performed while carrying a weighted pack. Between them the two men account for the majority of Pakistani Guinness titles awarded since 2013, which is why national record counts rise quickly without any change in the record-holding population.

How Does Guinness World Records Verify a Record?

Guinness World Records verifies a record through a written application, category-specific guidelines, and an evidence pack submitted after the attempt. Every attempt needs a minimum of two independent witnesses and a cover letter describing what was done.

The process runs in four stages, described below.

1. Application. The applicant submits the proposed record to Guinness World Records, which decides whether the category exists, whether a new category will be opened, and what the standing figure to beat is.
2. Guidelines. Guinness World Records issues written rules for that specific title. The rules fix measurement methods, equipment, timing and what counts as a valid repetition, and an attempt that ignores them fails regardless of the figure achieved.
3. The attempt and its evidence. The attempt is documented with video and photographs to a published style guide, and the evidence pack must include witness statements from at least two people, plus timekeeper statements, steward statements, logbooks, veterinary statements or collection inventories depending on the category.
4. Adjudication. Records are confirmed either by a Guinness World Records adjudicator present on the day, which gives an instant result, or by review of the submitted evidence afterwards, which is why Talha Waheed’s November 2024 attempt was not ratified until March 2025.

Two consequences follow for a list like this one. Records break, sometimes within months, so a page that names no year and no status becomes wrong quietly rather than visibly. And Guinness World Records removes entries from its public database during review, which means a title genuinely awarded in the past may have no current page, as with the Edhi ambulance figures and the gall bladder surgery. Both problems are handled here by stating the year and the status of every entry.

Frequently Asked Questions About Pakistani Guinness World Records

How many Guinness World Records does Pakistan hold?

No official national total is published. Pakistan holds dozens of titles across sport, charity, conservation and mass participation, and two individuals alone, Rashid Naseem and Irfan Mehsood, account for more than 250 between them.

Who holds the most Guinness World Records in Pakistan?

Rashid Naseem of Karachi holds the most, with 150 individual titles confirmed in January 2026 and further approvals reported since. Irfan Mehsood of Dera Ismail Khan passed 100 titles in August 2024.

What is the fastest ball ever bowled in cricket?

Shoaib Akhtar of Pakistan bowled the fastest recorded delivery at 161.3 km/h, or 100.23 mph, against England at Newlands in Cape Town on 22 February 2003. The Guinness World Records title still stands.

Who is the youngest Test cricketer in the world?

Guinness World Records lists Hasan Raza of Pakistan, who debuted against Zimbabwe on 24 October 1996 at a reported 14 years and 227 days. His birth date was later disputed and the Pakistan Cricket Board withdrew the claim.

Which Pakistani was the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional?

Arfa Karim Randhawa certified in 2004 at the age of nine and held the distinction until 2008. Her biography covers the certification, her awards and her death in detail.

Last Thoughts on Guinness World Records of Pakistan

Pakistani record lists circulating online tend to fail in the same two ways: they repeat 2012 and 2017 achievements as though they were current, and they include claims that no longer appear anywhere in the Guinness database. This list drops what could not be checked, including a widely copied largest cricket bat entry that in fact belongs to India, and states a year and a status against every surviving record. What remains is a mixed picture. Two individual athletes account for most of the raw count, while the records that carry weight are institutional: a mangrove planting operation run by the Sindh Forest Department, an ambulance network built in Karachi from 1948, and a squash streak from the 1980s that no sport has matched since. Readers tracking Pakistani sporting achievement beyond Guinness usually move next to the Kabaddi World Cup and Pakistan’s 2020 circle style title, or to the wider list of national heroes of Pakistan.