Rehmat Aziz Chitrali Gold Medalist

Rehmat Aziz Chitrali got his Master Degree in Islamic Studies with specialization in Quran and Tafseer from Allama Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad Pakistan and LL.B Degree from Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology Karachi. He is working as linguist and culture researcher. Rehmat Aziz Chitrali sets world record in linguistics from Pakistan by inventing single software that can be used to type in as many as 40 languages of Pakistan free of cost at a single plateform. According to the Leading News Papers Daily Tribune Islamabad Pakistan and New York Times, '' In pursuit of his passion for linguistics, Rehmat Aziz Khan Chitrali, the man behind the first-ever virtual Khowar language keyboard has achieved yet another remarkable feat — a software that allows typing in some 40 local languages.

The 44-year-old is an eminent poet, writer, linguist and researcher renowned not just in his native Chitral district but across the country for his immense work for the promotion of local languages, particularly Khowar, his mother tongue.

Rehmat Aziz Chitrali has developed a software that can be used to type in as many as 40 local languages, including Shina, Balti, Pashto, Kohistani, Damairi, Gojari, Dari, Ormuri, Palolah, Hindko, Potohari and Torwali among others. Rehmat Aziz earlier developed a keyboard for Khowar, a language spoken by around one million people in Chitral and several parts of Gilgit-Baltistan.“Being a linguist, I’m in love with languages, and this is a gift from me to the people of Pakistan,” said Khan, who hails from the remote valley of Mirandeh Khot. He believes he is the first person in the world to create a software which allows the typing of 40 languages at a single platform. For his outstanding services for the promotion and preservation of 40 local languages of Pakistan the Royal Commonwealth Society Great Britain, awarded him a Honoray Degree of Associate Fellowship. He is also the first Pakistani to be awarded the highly prestigious International Innovation Award from Germany. In Pakistan he has been given the Innovative Initiative Award and nominated for many International Awards.