Two Pakistani girls have leapfrogged over the competition from India andSweden to set three new Guinness World Records.
As per a statement issued by the global authority on record-breakingachievements, Karachi-born Emma Alam has broken two world records, and herteammate Syeda Kisa Zehra has broken one. Both have been recognized andpraised for achieving the new feat.——————————
Emma Alam has broken the world records for the ‘Most Random Words Memorizedin Sequence in 15 Minutes’ — a record that was previously held by India —and the ‘Most Names and Faces Memorized in 15 Minutes’ that was formerlyheld by Sweden.
Celebrating online, Alam said,
It’s an honour to be recognized by the Guinness World Records, I can nowsay, ‘I am officially amazing!
Syeda Kisa Zehra has broken the world record for the Most Historic/Future(fictional) Dates Memorized in 5 Minutes, with 241 dates. She thanked theglobal authority for recognizing her achievement and said “indeed, it’s aprivilege to be declared the best in the world in the amazing feat ofmemory, which goes to show how amazing the human memory bank is”.
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The Federal Minister for Human Rights, Shireen Mazari, commended thechampions on Twitter.
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Although these records were set by Alam and Zehra in December last year,they were only recently certified by the Guinness World Records for them.