Goodbye, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan
The truth is that he died on the same day that the ruler of the time de-briefed him and presented him as a criminal on TV in front of the whole nation. I am sure that Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan would have done all this by forcing his heart. He would have been asked to offer sacrifice for the nation otherwise he would have accepted death but would not have accepted this humiliation. He was told that Pakistan is in danger and this danger can be averted only when Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan comes before the nation and confesses his uncommitted sins. Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan accepted this humiliation for the sake of the nation and President Pervez Musharraf used his powers to pardon him. He was imprisoned at home against which Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court. Declaring his briefing unconstitutional and illegal, he ordered his release on February 6, 2009. Even after his release, he was practically under house arrest and intelligence agencies did not allow anyone to meet him.
This Ehsan was the hero of a forgotten nation who passed away today. Now he will be buried with state honors. Someone had told the truth that they would bury him with honor. Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan migrated from India and came to Pakistan in 1951. His parents lived in Bhopal but he preferred to go to Pakistan. He was Pashtun and his father Abdul Ghafoor was a school teacher. The rest of his family had come to Pakistan in 1947 and he wrote several letters to Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan's parents asking them to come to Pakistan as well. Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan enrolled in DJ Science College. In 1956, he did B.Sc. Physics and was recruited as Inspector in Karachi Metropolitan Corporation. At the same time, he applied for a scholarship to study in West Germany. In 1961, he moved to West Berlin to study.
From West Germany, he went to the Netherlands, where he earned a master's degree and went to Belgium for a Ph.D. He completed his degree under the tutelage of his professor and got a job in an engineering firm in Amsterdam on the recommendation of his professor. The company was a Uranco subcontractor working to enrich uranium with gas. Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan was called to a high position by Urenko and engaged in uranium enrichment. Until then, it was not in any corner of Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan's mind that he had to work for Pakistan's nuclear program. It may be that India has carried out a nuclear explosion in the name of buddha smiling. Then Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan realized that he should do something for his country. Pakistan had also secretly started the nuclear program and Dr. Munir Ahmed was heading the program. In 1974, he wrote a letter to the Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in this regard but no one paid attention to this letter.
۔ Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan again contacted Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto through the Ambassador of Pakistan. His security was checked. Later, he called Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan to Pakistan and briefed the Prime Minister in the presence of Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Agha Shahi, and Mubashir Hassan. Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto said that his words carry weight. Pakistan was trying to make an atomic bomb from plutonium at that time. Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan showed them the way to enrich uranium. Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan was asked to stay in the Netherlands and continue to guide Project 706 by getting information about the whole process. In 1975, Urenko fired Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan from duty in sensitive places due to his meetings with Munir Ahmed Khan. On this occasion, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan's life was also endangered and he moved to Pakistan. In 1976, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan joined the nuclear program and worked with Khalil Qureshi to advance the nuclear program. On this occasion, differences arose among the scientists already in the program. Bashiruddin Mahmood was then the head of the uranium division.
Khan and Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood could not walk together and Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan informed Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto about the whole situation. The Prime Minister replaced Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood with Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan as the head of the uranium division and separated his division from the program. Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan's division continued to operate under the direct supervision of the Army. Dr. Khan was the Chief Scientist and with the help of Army Engineers, he chose the desolate place of Kahuta for his laboratory, and thus the research center of Kahuta was started.
When Zia-ul-Haq visited the laboratory in 1983, he named it after Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan. Later, other scientists working on the nuclear program said that they are the real heroes of Pakistan and Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan was just a showman. In 1985, a local Amsterdam court sentenced him to four years in prison in absentia. Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan fought his case through SM Zafar Advocate. They proved that the information they had or what they asked for was part of the syllabus throughout the whole physics course and is taught to all students.
