page_title: Haroon Tariq
section_title: Media attention
hierarchical_section_title: Haroon Tariq / Media attention
caption_attribution_description: This is a photo of Haroon Tariq with Mamnoon Hussain.
context_page_description: Muhammad Haroon Tariq is a Pakistani student, notable for making seven world records by getting a total of 87
  A grades. He has 30 A grades in GCE Advanced Level, 29 A grades in IGCSE and 28 A grades in GCE Ordinary Level. He passed his GCE Advanced Level from Froebel's International School Islamabad in Pakistan.
context_section_description: Haroon’s GCE Advanced Level result was taken up by the International media. He was interviewed by or quoted in a number of newspapers and TV channels including BBC, CNN, NBC, Saudi Gazette, The Asian Today, Geo News, The News Tribe, Express News (Pakistan), Dunya News, Dawn News, Geo Entertainment, The Tribune, Aaj News, Jang Group of Newspapers, The Express Tribune, PTV News, Samaa TV, ARY News, ATV (Pakistan), PTV Home, Abb Takk News, Capital TV (Pakistan), Roze News, Khyber News and A-Plus Entertainment among others.  He was called by BBC World News as “Pakistan’s Brainiest Student”.
  Haroon Tariq was given a number of awards, including the National Book Ambassador Pakistan which is one of the highest honours in Pakistan. Haroon was congratulated personally by the President of Pakistan. President Mamnoon Hussain invited him as a guest to rendezvous with him. He was invited by Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Rashad Mahmood to congratulate him on his monumental achievement. Imran Khan came to Haroon Tariq's school to congratulate him and encouraged the youth of Pakistan to follow in Haroon Tariq's footsteps. In addition, many TV channels including BBC in Britain and ARY News, Samaa TV, Express News, Geo News, Aaj News, A-Plus Entertainment, Geo Entertainment, Abb Takk News, PTV Home, ATV (Pakistan), Capital TV (Pakistan), Roze News, Khyber News and PTV News amongst many others in Pakistan invited him as a guest to various shows.
  Haroon Tariq soon joined Pakistan's biggest youth organisation; National Youth Assembly, where he serves as a youth ambassador and a federal speaker, using his position to highlight the issues of young people to the masses where they are often neglected.
caption: Haroon Tariq(M) with his father(L) and President of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain(R)
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