Muhammad Asif (محمد آصف) is a multiple-time winner of the IBSF World Amateur Snooker Championship, securing the title in 2012, 2019, and 2024.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (شرمین عبید چنائے) is the first Pakistani to win an Oscar. She won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 2012 for 'Saving Face'.

Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize in 2009 for 'Wolf Hall' and in 2012 for 'Bring Up the Bodies'. Both are historical novels centering on the rise of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII.

'The Artist' became the first silent film to win Best Picture since 'Wings' (1927).

The leap years were 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016. That makes 4 actual birthdays (excluding the day of birth).

Pakistan conducted successful nuclear tests on May 28, 1998, in the Chagai district of Balochistan, in response to Indian tests earlier that month.

The Mayan Long Count cycle lasts approximately 5,125 solar years. One such cycle ended famously in December 2012.

The Maya civilization developed the Long Count calendar to track longer periods of time, famous for the 2012 cycle end.

The Frontier Corps (FC) is a paramilitary force primarily responsible for maintaining law and order and border security in the western provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.

The Command and Staff College, a prestigious institution for training field grade officers, is located in Quetta, Balochistan. It is one of the oldest military institutions in the country.