Ninth grade Pakistani student set a world record

A ninth-grade Pakistani student breaks a world record for the fastest attempt to arrange the Periodic Table. The current record was 2 minutes and 42 seconds, which was broken as the he completed the task in 1 min and 58 seconds.

Hailing from Thar, Rohan Khatwani set the record at the Islamabad Science Festival. The event was organized at the Pakistan National Council of Arts on February 13.

The Deputy Commissioner of Islamabad Hamza Shafqaat initiated the even, while and President of the ECO Science Foundation (ECOSF) Manzoor Soomro was also present at the exhibition.

According to a press release issued by the organizers, more than 80 schools took part in the festival and demonstrated their projects, featuring a range of innovative ideas, including walk-in sanitizing stations, precautions against coronavirus, and myth-busting related to COVID-19 remedies, among others.

The Government of Pakistan congratulated Khatwani and said that he had made the nation proud through this feat.

"Rohan Khatwani, a ninth-grader Pakistani made the entire nation proud as he set a new world record by arranging the Periodic Table in just 1 minute and 58 seconds," the govt said in a tweet.