Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s atomic weapons program, passed away early Sunday morning, Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed revealed.
The nuclear scientist was rushed to a private hospital in Islamabad after his health deteriorated. AQ Khan’s funeral prayers will be held at the Faisal Mosque at 3pm.
The minister said that the doctors did everything to save the nuclear scientist’s life. Dr AQ Khan was moved to the KRL Hospital after he contracted Covid.
Who is Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan?
Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan was born on April 1, 1936, in Bhopal of British India. Khan attended the University of Karachi where he completed BSc in Physics. He was heavily influenced by the events of 1971, the loss of East Pakistan, and the subsequent test of nuclear explosives by India in 1974, which led him to write to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto expressing his desire to work for Pakistan’s nuclear program. He joined Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) in 1976. Pakistan had already acquired its weapons by 1980s but detonated in the late 1990s after India conducted its tests.
He founded the Engineering Research Laboratory, or ERL, to develop a uranium-enrichment capability. In 1981 ERL was renamed the Khan Research Laboratory, or KRL.
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