Dr.Abdul Qadeer Khan father of Pakistan Nuclear program, life, career and achievements

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Abdul Qadeer Khan

 



Khan was born in 1936, a renowned physicist and father of Pakistan’s atomic weapons program. He migrated from India to Pakistan in 1952.Khan in 1972 joined Physics Dynamics Research Laboratory in Amsterdam. This laboratory was working on uranium enrichment plant. When he was to left he was offered senior technical position. When India did surprise nuclear test in 1974, Pakistan team under Munir Ahmad Khan was working on atomic bomb.  Khan was trying to build an atomic bomb and held meeting with Pakistani officials in 1974.He wrote letter to Prime Minister Zulifiqar Ali Khan. When Khan comes in Pakistan he took a taxi and went to PM secretariat. He held meeting with Prime Minister and President and explained thoroughly about enriched uranium, in the end of the meeting Bhutto remarks were He seems to make sense. The next day, Khan met with Munir Ahmad and other senior scientists where he focused the discussion on production of enriched uranium. In 1976 Khan joined atomic bomb programe.

In 1982, an unnamed Arab country reached out to Khan for the sale of centrifuge technology. Khan was very receptive to the financial offer, but one scientist alerted the Zia administration which investigated the matter, only for Khan to vehemently deny such an offer was made to him.

In 1987 political controversy started against Qadeer that Khan leaked knowledge of centrifuges to Iran without notifying Pakistani Government. After that Khan remained controversy. On 4 February 2004, Khan appeared on (PTV) and confessed to running a proliferation ring, and transferring technology to Iran between 1989 and 1991, and to North Korea and Libya between 1991 and 1997. The Musharraf administration avoided arresting Khan but launched security hearings on Khan who confessed to the military investigators that had given authorization for technology transfer to Iran Khan published two books on material science and started publishing his articles. Musharaf issued pardon to Khan later on when he realized that it was politicized by his political rivals. Khan helped established the A. Q. Khan Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering at Karachi University. He was criticized by many of his fellow theorists especially from Pakistan Physics society.  

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He was honored Nishan-i-Imtiaz twice. In spite of controversies he remained public figure and symbol of national pride.  He was given many medals and honors’ by many universities.  Khan died on 10 october 2021 at age of 85. He was facing lung issues after testing positive for Covid 19. Prime Minister of Pakistan gave statement over his death as “ he was icon for people of Pakistan.



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