Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan is a Pakistani scientist whose name will be written in golden letters in the pages of Pakistan's history. His short-lived achievements in the field of nuclear technology quickly earned him the status of a national hero.
He was born on April 27, 1936, in Bhopal in central India. On his father's side, he was a native of Turkey of Guri Tribe, who came to India in the 12th century A.D. He came from a mother whose ancestry was Mughal. Her father, Abdul Ghafoor Khan, who graduated from the University of Nagpur in 1896, was one of the most respected community members. Her mother, Zulekha Begum, was known as a religious woman. Some members of his family moved to Pakistan shortly after independence, but he moved five years later, on August 15, 1952.
His early life and education
Abdul Qadeer Khan received his primary education at Gnori Primary School and passed his mid-year exams at Jehangiria Middle School. Alexandria High School was later renamed Hameedia High School and obtained a matric. He was later admitted to D.J. Sindh Government Science College, Karachi. From Karachi University, he got a B.Sc. graduated and the following year passed a competitive exam. He worked as a Metal and Stepped Inspector for three years but then moved to West Germany for higher education.
In Berlin, he gained advanced skills by attending several steel engineering courses. He graduated with a Master of Science (Technology) in 1967 from Delft University of Technology, Belgium, and then obtained a doctorate from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) in 1972. It performs well as a metallurgist - centrifuge-building expert - hollow steel tubes that rotate quickly to enrich natural uranium from its rare U-23 isotopes, an excellent bomb fuel.
As soon as India announced their nuclear designs, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto chose an atomic weapon even before India advanced the atomic explosion on May 18, 1974. At an urgent scientific conference on January 20, 1972, Bhutto appealed to Pakistani scientists. To do 'fission work in three years. The task was assigned to the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission. Dr. A. Q. Khan was then studying in Holland. On September 17, 1974, while working for the Anglo-Dutch-German-engineering engineering consortium Urenco in the Netherlands, he wrote a letter to Prime Minister Bhutto through the Pakistani Ambassador to Belgium.
He informed her of the nature of his work and offered his services a proposal to take a shortcut to enrich uranium. He met with Bhutto in December 1974 and assured him that he would prevent nuclear power in Pakistan. A.Q. For a time, Khan initially worked with the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), led by Munir Ahmad Khan. But unsatisfied with the set, Bhutto awarded A. Khan in July 1976 independent management of the Kahuta Enrichment Project, which had been operating as Project-706 since 1974, two years before A.Q. Khan's arrival in Pakistan. When Dr. A.Q. Khan joined and was named Engineering Research Laboratories (ERL).
However, on May 01, 1981, the ERL was renamed at the direction of Gen. Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq as Dr. A.Q. Khan Research Laboratories (KRL). On May 28, 1998, Pakistan successfully tested its first nuclear machine and emerged as the only Muslim country to join the nuclear club.
Dr. A. Q. Khan's scientific contributions have been seen in many ways.
As an active scientist and specialist, he has published more than 188 scientific research papers in overseas journals. Under his direction, the uranium enrichment process was carried out successfully. Significant progress was made with completing the Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missiles test, Ground 1, April 1998, and Ghauri II in April 1999.
Dr. Khan received a distinguished Doctor of Science degree from Karachi University in 1993, from Baqai Medical University in 1998, a Doctor of Science from Hamdard University, Karachi in 1999, and from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore in December 2000. For his contributions to science and technology, Dr. Khan was awarded the Nishan-Imtiaz in 1996 and again released in 1998.
He is also a recipient of Hilal-Imtiaz In the 1990s, there were reports in Western media that Dr. A. Q. Khan was involved in the sale of centrifuge parts in Libya and Iran. In November 2003, Pakistan was warned of a possible nuclear explosion and, according to an IAEA report, Dr. Khan was accused of being at the center of an international expansion network. As a result, he retired from KRL and was appointed Presidential Adviser.
Initially, Dr. Khan has denied any form of human involvement in nuclear proliferation. However, on February 04, 2004, in television viewing, he took "full responsibility" for his action and demanded "forgiveness" from the nation. Since then, he has been kept in custody, and no one is allowed to see him. The allegations were baseless but a frustrating western reaction to the Islamic world's inability to incorporate into nuclear power. He was in pain all these years; even his family was not allowed to meet him.
His death news:
The news of Khan’s death prompted an outpouring of grief and praise for his legacy. Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, who died in Islamabad Sunday (October 10, 2021) of Covid-19-related complications at the age of 85, was revered in Pakistan as the “father” of the country’s “atom bomb.” he is no more with us. I wanted to write all this when you were alive, but we awaken the people's conscience when someone leaves this world.
He is a national hero of Pakistan. He saves our country with his contributions because his love is pure for Pakistan. People call him Ghadar, but it is just an allegation, and on the allegation, he was prisoned in his own house in his own country.
I can write a book on Dr. AQ Khan. But I don't know how to write; I'm crying while writing this. We are a cruel nation that mourns the death of an Indian celebrity, but we can't raise a voice for our hero. he left everything, his career, his job, only for Pakistan. He didn't run away from Pakistan like other generals and politicians. He gives his everything to our nation. He doesn't have properties, companies outside of Pakistan. He bears all the ignorance from our government on every platform. I want all of you to think just for once about what we did with him. Do we do justice with him and his work? No, we let him down... He said in his one interview that he was very disappointed by his nation because he gave his everything to this nation. He is dissatisfied with the government. He said No government official even asked how I was doing.
I can't write anymore, I wanna say that, we are sorry Dr. AQ khan We are all humiliated... we lost a gem today
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