While Google’s most-searched topics around the world this year ranged from Hurricane Irma and Bitcoin prices, in Pakistan, as usual, top searches for people mostly included models and celebrities.
Apart from the occasional cricket related name, the list is filled with Pakistani actresses. No political figure made it to the list this year.
Let’s take a look at the most Googled people of 2017:
Top ten people
1. Fabiha Sherazi
The model gained popularity after being sighted on Fawad Mustafa’s show, Jeeto Pakistan. Since then, Pakistanis watched her grace the show with her presence throughout Ramazan transmissions. Who’d have thought she’d top the list!
2. Nadeem Sarwar
Nadeem Sarwar, a religious orator, is known for his Nohay.
3. Fakhar Zaman
The navy sailor-turned-opening batsman, who made his One Day International (ODI) debut in Pakistan vs South Africa, won millions of hearts for his outstanding performance against India in Champions trophy.
4. Rishi Kapoor
The Bollywood actor had quite a year with Pakistanis on Twitter for his racist tweets during the ICC Champions Trophy 2017. He’s also a dying wish to visit Pakistan.
5. Rida Isfahani
The TV actor has a few notable projects, including ARY’s Jatan, to her credit. But she actually caught the internet’s eye with her leaked videos this year.
6. Faryal Makhdoom
Faryal Makhdoom almost ruled the whole year, on social media, with her break-up and make-up with husband, British Pakistani boxer Amir Khan.
7. Javed Afridi
The CEO of Haier and the owner of the Peshawari Zalmis, who is not related to Shahid Afridi, had quite the year after his franchise won the Pakistan Super League (PSL).
8. Ahad Raza Mir
The Canadian Pakistani Film/TV and stage actor took the whole country by storm with his drama ‘Yakeen Ka Safar’ and his iconic portrayal of the character of Dr Asfandyar Usman Ali Khan, aka Dr Asfi.
9. Hania Amir
It was a good year overall for Hania Amir, starred alongside Fawad Mustafa in Na Maloom Afraad 2, but it was a Snapchat post gone wrong that got her more searches than one would expect.
10. Momina Mustehsan
Momina has been in the spotlight ever since her Coke Studio debut.
Also, here we have Pakistan’s top ten searches on Google:
Top ten searches
- ICC Champions Trophy
- WWE Extreme Rules
- Dangal
- Raees
- Half Girlfriend
- Fast and Furious 8
- Jagga Jasoos
- Munna Michael
- Wajah Tum Ho
- Eid Mubarak
Top ten News searches
- ICC Champions Trophy
- The Kapil Sharma Show
- Prime Minister Laptop Scheme
- Barma
- Shivratri
- Panama Case
- Lahore blast
- Catalonia
- Prime Minister Youth Internship
- CSS results
Google generates the lists by finding the search terms with a higher traffic as compared to the previous year in order to highlight only the top-searches and interests of this year.
Trillions of Google Searches are explored each year by Google to see the perspective of the internet users and to judge their “Internet Spirit”.
