Mehvish Mushtaq Hakak (Urdu: مہوش مشتاق)[1] (born 1989) is an Application and Software developer, who created a Business Directory App for Kashmir called "Dial Kashmir", in 2013, for the Kashmir valley,[2] which made her the first Kashmiri female to develop an Android app.
Born in 1989 in Srinagar,[3][4] Mehvish Mushtaq is a Kashmiri app developer.[5] At age 23, she developed the 'Dial Kashmir' Android app after completing an Android app design course.[6] Dial Kashmir caters specifically to the Kashmir region. It provides the user with extensive information like addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of various essential and commercial services in various sectors in Kashmir, including hospitals, education, transport, and police.[6][1] It also includes train, holiday, and prayer schedules, among other features.[7][8] In 2013, Ahmed Ali Fayaaz of The Hindu described it as a "treasure trove of information on automobile services, hotels, doctors, houseboats, NGOs, real estate, postal codes, and even Waazwaan, Kashmir’s party cuisine, with over a dozen mutton preparations."[3]
As of 2021[update], the app had over 50,000 downloads from the Google Play Store and has a rating of 4.3, with over 1,700+ reviews.[9]
^Singh, Sanjay (7 March 2018). "International Women's Day: India's 6 most powerful women who defeated all odds". Tech Observer. Retrieved 7 March 2021. Women in India are overcoming many challenges to follow their passion. Here, we try to explore few stories to understand, how women are changing the world in their own way.
^"Women in Male-Dominated Professions". The Times of India. 13 August 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2021. Mehvish Mushtaq became the first Kashmiri woman to design an Android app at the age of twenty-three. She broke all the stereotypical norms associated to gender and made a mark for herself in technology.