Islamabad: Dr.
Abdul Qader Khan, known as ‘Mr.
Nuclear Bomb Pakistan’, died in a hospital here on Sunday after his lung collapsed, was very damaged by the Coronavirus infection he had contracted last month.
Khan, 85, has been respected as a national hero to make Pakistan a nuclear power.
Islamabad has detonated his first nuclear weapon in 1998 when he led the Khan Research Laboratory (KRL) – Uranium enrichment facilities that have been expanded to many other fields of science during the period of time – in Kahuta, near Islamabad.
“Dr.
Khan was loved by the nation because his critical contribution in making us a state of nuclear weapons.
It has provided us with a much larger nuclear neighbor (India).
For the people of Pakistan, he is a national icon,” Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan posted on Twitter after the death of nuclear scientists.
The head of the army of Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa said Khan’s contribution to making Pakistan’s defense stronger was “significant”.
In the midst of strict security, Khan has lived a remote life at his residence in the E-7 class of Islamabad since 2004 after he acknowledged the role in large global nuclear proliferation fraud.
In the address broadcast on television, he has received responsibility for the illegal proliferation of nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya.
Former Military Ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf has fired him from his position.
However, the former president has also given him clemency using the power of his wisdom but made him remain detained at home until 2009.
“It will be a disaster for Pakistan if I have not received responsibility,” said nuclear scientist once said.
In the 2018 book “Nuclear Bomb Pakistan: The story of disobedience, prevention and deviation”, Pakistan-American scholars and Academic Hassan Abbas have highlighted the involvement of Khan in nuclear proliferation in Iran, Libya and North Korea.
He wrote that the origins and evolution of the Khan network were related to the motivation of domestic and international politics underlying Pakistan’s nuclear weapons projects.
The author also examined the role of China and Saudi Arabia in supporting his nuclear infrastructure.
Khan is reported to have intimate relationships with China’s nuclear establishment.
The US State Department said in 2009 that Khan had run “a broad international network for the proliferation of nuclear equipment and knowledge that gave ‘One Stop Shopping’ for countries that seek to develop nuclear weapons”.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this network action has “irrevocably changed the proliferation landscape and has eternal implications for international security”.
Western diplomats have long doubted whether Khan could act alone.
Speaking with foreign media in the past, Khan said the recognition was “handed over to my hand”.
Khan was born in 1936 in Bhopal, India, and has migrated together with his family to Pakistan after the partition.
He studied metallurgical techniques in Berlin after completing a degree in Science from Karachi University in 1960.
Then, he went for a follow-up study to the Netherlands and Belgium.
After the Indian nuclear test in 1974, he had joined the efforts of Pakistan’s clandestine to develop nuclear technology.
For this purpose, he has established a KRL in 1976 and is a major scientist and director for years until the removal by Musharraf in 2004 on charges of carrying out nuclear networks for nuclear materials.
Over the past few years in his life, he had sought assistance from the court to loosen restrictions on his movements.
“I have been saved as a prisoner who has no movement or free meeting with anyone,” Khan wrote to Pakistan’s Supreme Court last year in a handwritten note against the country.
Last month, he complained that Imran or his cabinet member did not ask for his health when he was in hospital treatment.
He was treated at KRL Hospital on August 26 after testing positive Covid-19.
Then, he shifted to a military hospital at the Garrison City of Rawalpindi.
He was sent back from there a few weeks ago after recovering from the virus.
However, his health, turn to get worse last night when he began to feel the inconvenience in breathing due to bleeding in his lungs.
At 7:04 a.m., the doctor said it died.
He was given a Cemetery in the Mosque of Faisal Islamabad before his cemetery in the cemetery H-8 cities.
His funeral was attended by cabinet members, MPs and military officers, among others.
To lament his death, the national flag was flown half mast.
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