Mehvish Mushtaq

She is the first Kashmiri to develop an app and is now popularly known as the  'Android girl' Mehvish Mushtaq (23)  Founder of project Dial Kashmir   A . If there is paradise on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here...said Amir Khusrow, Sufi musician, poet and scholar about Kashmir. Eons ago Kashmir conjured up images of beauty — Dal Lake, boat houses and snow capped mountains. But now, Kashmir has become synonymous with turmoil. That's why Mehvish Mushtaq is like a breath of fresh air. She is the first Kashmiri to develop an Android app — Dial Kashmir, which has become an almost mandatory application to have on one's smartphone in Kashmir that has a population of around five million. She says she created the app with an aim to facilitate communication processes within the Kashmiri society.

Abhishek Mande Bhot   Meet Mehvish Mushtaq, the first Kashmiri girl to develop an Android app dedicated to the state of Jammu & Kashmir. W hen she wanted to telephone a cousin's school some years ago, Mehvish Mushtaq was lost. The school's website was down. She didn't have a phone book handy and there weren't any directory services that could help her with it. After considerable search, that included calling up the cousin's classmates, she finally got the number. Then there were occasions when a hospital's number wasn't easy to come by. Each time a situation arose, she would scramble for information. Mehvish Mushtaq stays in Srinagar where information isn't easy to come by. Telephone numbers and contact details are available but they remain scattered online. So when as part of an online course on Android application development, Mehvish Mushtaq was required to create an app, she knew just what she wanted to make.

Kashmiri girl shortlisted for L’Oreal Paris Femina Women Awards SHAFAT FAROOQ SRINAGAR —   A Kashmiri girl who shot to fame in Kashmir Valley for developing an Android application, has been shortlisted for L’Oreal Paris Femina Women Awards 2014. The yearly awards are given to women for ‘remarkable’ achievements. Mehwish Mushtaq Hakaak, a resident of uptown Srinagar, was shortlisted in the ‘Online Influencer’ category.

Today we’re talking about a mobile project run by a young girl. She’s Mehvish Mushtaq, and the project is called  Dial Kashmir , an Android app that provides valuable info about Kashmir. The description on  Google Play  goes like this: “All the information about Kashmir is now just a touch away.” The project has been developed in Srinagar,  a city of over 1.2 million people located in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir , and provides a very important service to the whole Kashmir area, which counts around 5 million people. The promotion of Dial Kashmir is strongly focused on social media; the  Facebook page  is quite active, with posts about the app and about the beauty of Kashmir.

Meet Mehvish Mushtaq, The Young Kashmiri Girl Helping You ‘Dial Kashmir’ At The Touch Of A Button Kashmir is not usually present in our imaginations (or on our TV screens for that matter) for reasons other than militancy, bomb blasts, curfews, guerilla attacks, protests, firing on civilians, army crimes, so on and so forth (though occasionally the images of juicy red apples and snowy honey-moon spots makes it through!).

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