Pakistan's greatest nuclear scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan died on Sunday morning at the age of 85. He made the first atomic bomb of Muslim countries, so he is called the father of the Islamic nuclear bomb. He was also accused of selling nuclear technology to several countries. Abdul had difficulty breathing on Saturday night after which he was rushed to the hospital on Sunday morning.
In May 1998, India tested five nuclear bombs in Pokhran, Rajasthan. As a response to this, Pakistan also conducted nuclear tests under the leadership of Dr. After this he became a hero not only in Pakistan but in the Islamic world. After this test, Pakistan became the only Muslim country and the seventh country in the world to have nuclear weapons.
Abdul Qadeer Khan was born on 1 April 1936 in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. His family moved to Pakistan at the time of partition. Dr. Kadir Khan was the first citizen of Pakistan to be given three Presidential Awards. He was awarded the Nishan-e-Imtiaz twice and Hilal-e-Imtiaz once.
In 1998, US News Week magazine published a report accusing Dr. Khan of selling nuclear secrets to Iraq. A few years later, the then US President George W Bush conducted an intelligence investigation, which revealed that Dr. Khan had also sold nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea, Libya, and Iraq.
After this, when Dr. Khan confessed to the charges against him, the then President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf removed him from the nuclear program in 2002. This confession caused a stir in the international media. US Time magazine named him Merchant of Menace. He was placed under house arrest in 2004. Seeing his arrest and the Musharraf government's inclination towards the US government, many political parties and Pakistani citizens came out in support of him and he was made a national hero. After this, the then Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani dropped all the charges against him.
