Pakistani Inventors - 9 Inventions of the recent years

These are not sorted in any order.

1. Fertilizers With Non-Explosive Materials

Source: http://www.dawn.com/news/789493/pakistani-firm-makes-ied-proof-fertiliser

Recently a Pakistani fertilizer company Fatima Group invented a new formula to make fertilizers that cannot be converted into bomb-making materials. Previously, Fertilizers with ammonium nitrate, however, can easily be converted into bomb-making ingredients.

2. Successful Brain-Silicon Chip Connection

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwoYZmm3prU

Dr. Naweed Syed is the first scientist who managed to "connect brain cells to a silicon chip". This Pakistani helped the world achieve a great milestone by proving the theory on Snail brain cells. This discovery will significantly help in the research of integrating computers with the human brains in order to assist people monitor vital signs control artificial limbs, correct memory loss or vision impairment.

3. Sagar Veena

Source: https://sanjannagar.wordpress.com/sagar-veena/

The Sagar Veena, use in classical music, was developed completely in Pakistan over the last 40 years by Raza Kazim at the Sanjannagar Institute, Lahore.

4. Human Development Index

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index

Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq devised the Human Development Index in 1990 in order to move the focus of development economics to people centered policies from national income accounting.

5. Lavatory That Transforms Human Waste into Charcoal, Minerals, And Clean Water

Source(s): http://www.bbc.com/news/business-19873478 , http://www.riazhaq.com/2012/08/british-pakistani-wins-reinvent-toilet.html

Pakistani researcher at Loughborough University, Sohail Khan designed a lavatory that converts human waste into biological charcoal, which can be burned, and clean water.

6. (c) Brain, One Of The First Computer Viruses

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_%28computer_virus%29

This virus was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in 1986 in Lahore, Pakistan to discourage piracy of the software they had made.

7. The Ommaya Reservoir

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ommaya_reservoir

Developed by Ayub K. Ommaya, the Ommaya reservoir is a system used for injecting the medicines into the cerebrospinal fluid for treatment of patients with brain tumours.

8. Pleuroperitoneal Shunt, Endotracheal Tube

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayed_Amjad_Hussain

A Pakistani American doctor from Peshawar Dr. Sayed Amjad Hussain, Pakistan invented the Pleuroperitoneal Shunt and a Special Endotracheal Tube tube to supply oxygen during fiber-optic bronchoscopy in awake patients.

9. A Software Simulation To Reduce Death Rate In Bomb Blast

Source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/31036/learning-from-suicide-blasts/

A Pakistani computer scientist, Zeeshan-ul-Hassan Usmani, has introduced a Software simulation based on blast forensics designed by that claims to reduce deaths (on average) by 12% and injuries by 7% merely by altering the way a group of people stand near an expected suicide bomber.