Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Abdul Qadeer Khan, NI, HI, FPAS (/ ˈ ɑː b d əl ˈ k ɑː d ɪər ˈ k ɑː n / ⓘ AHB-dəl KAH-deer KAHN; Urdu: عبد القدیر خان; 1 April 1936 – 10 October 2021), [3] known as A. Q. Khan, was a Pakistani nuclear physicist and metallurgical engineer who is colloquially known as the "father of Pakistan's atomic weapons program".
The Dr. A. Q. Khan Research Laboratories (shortened as KRL), [2] is a federally funded research and development laboratory located in Kahuta at a short distance from Rawalpindi in Punjab, Pakistan. Established in 1976, the laboratory is best known for its central role in Pakistan's nuclear weapons program and its understanding the nuclear ...
Dr. A. Q. Khan Institute of Computer Sciences and Information Technology commonly known as KICSIT is a sub-campus of Institute of Space Technology located in Kahuta, Rawalpindi, Punjab.Dr. A. Q. Khan Institute of Computer Sciences and Information Technology (KICSIT), Kahuta was inaugurated in November 2000 by Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the founder and then Chairman of KRL.
On 4 February 2004, the New York Times carried a story claiming that SCOPE supplied nuclear components to Libya as part of a rogue network masterminded by Pakistani atomic weapons supremo Dr. A. Q. Khan. [1] Scomi denied any wrongdoings.
Just as PAEC, the KRL was under direct control of Prime Minister Bhutto and A.Q. Khan reported directly to the Prime Minister. A.Q. Khan disliked the idea of PAEC getting involved in ERL project, but favoured the Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers to lead the program. The work on ERL was initiated by Bhutto, and the project was assigned to ...
Pakistan thus became the seventh country in the world to successfully develop and test nuclear weapons, [22] although according to a letter sent by A.Q. Khan to General Zia, the capability to detonate a nuclear bomb using highly enriched uranium as fissile material produced at KRL had already been achieved by KRL in 1984. [13] [14]
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Suspected militants kidnapped four people, including an army officer who was sitting in a mosque in a former stronghold of Pakistani Taliban to receive mourners ...
In 1996, at the behest of Dr. A.Q. Khan, his activism led to his name being placed on the Exit Control List. [53] In 2013 he was the major contributor and editor of Confronting The Bomb – Pakistani And Indian Scientists Speak Out .