The second death anniversary of Mohsin-e-Pakistan and nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan is being observed today.
He made Pakistan’s defense invincible by making it the first nuclear power in the Muslim world and the seventh nuclear power in the world.
In recognition of his valuable services, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan was awarded twice with Nishan Pakistan, among other honors.
He passed away on this day in 2021 in Islamabad.
Condolence events organized by political and social organizations across the country will pay homage to the great services of scientists for the country and nation.
Pakistani scientist and creator of the atomic bomb Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan was born on April 1, 1936, in Bhopal, India. He received higher education from prominent educational institutions around the world.
Khan was just a young boy when his family migrated to Pakistan during the bloody 1947 partition of the sub-continent at the end of British colonial rule.
He completed a science degree at Karachi University in 1960, then went on to study metallurgical engineering in Berlin before completing advanced studies in the Netherlands and Belgium.
The crucial contribution to Pakistan’s nuclear programme was the procurement of a blueprint for uranium centrifuges, which transform uranium into weapons-grade fuel for nuclear fissile material.
He was charged with stealing it from the Netherlands while working for Anglo-Dutch-German nuclear engineering consortium Urenco, and bringing it back to Pakistan in 1976.
On his return to Pakistan, then-PM Zulfikar Ali Bhutto put Khan in charge of the government’s nascent uranium enrichment project.
By 1978, his team had enriched uranium and by 1984 they were ready to detonate a nuclear device, Khan later said in a newspaper interview.
