Islamabad –
Father of Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Program,Abdul Qadeer Khan died at the age of 85 years. His work and services in transforming Pakistan as the world’s first Islamic nuclear power are in the spotlight.
detikcom has summarized the following information, as reported by the BBC and AFP, Sunday (10/10/2021)
Abdul Qadeer Khan was born in Bhopal, India, in 1935. He was born in a simple family. In 1952, he migrated to Pakistan, five years after the country separated from India.
His intelligence is unquestionable. He graduated from the University of Karachi and moved to Europe for further studies in West Germany and Belgium.
In the 1970s, Khan worked at a uranium enrichment plant run by an Anglo-Dutch-German consortium called Urenco. But in 1976, Khan returned to Pakistan to lead Pakistan’s nuclear program, with the support of then Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
During work, Abdul Qadeer Khan insisted that the program had no military purpose. But at the 1998 nuclear test Khan admitted that he “never doubted that I was making a bomb. We had to do it.”
Khan also worked on the test-firing of the nuclear-capable Ghauri I and II missiles. While doing the job. Khan is also being investigated in the Netherlands for allegedly taking enrichment technology during his previous job.
Then in 1983, he was sentenced in absentia for four years in prison by an Amsterdam court for attempted espionage. However, the sentence was later overturned on appeal.
Even so, Khan has been credited with bringing Pakistan to rival India on the atomic front and making its defenses “impenetrable”.
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