Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan
Abdul Qadeer Khan NI,
HI, FPAS, D Eng, known asA.Q. Khan was a Pakistani nuclear physicist and
metallurgical mastermind who's colloquially known as the" father of
Pakistan's itty-bitty strongholds program".
Died: October 10,
2021
Born April 1, 1936, Bhopal, India
Partner Henny Qadeer Khan (m. 1964)
Education Delft
University of Technology (TU Delft), Other
Books Dr.A.Q. Khan on Science and Education
Children Dina Khan,
Ayesha Khan
Siblings Abdul Quyuim Khan
Islamabad Abdul Qadeer
Khan adored as the" father of Pakistan's nuclear catastrophe", has
broken at 85, authorities said Sunday, having been hospitalized with Covid-19.
The bitsy scientist
was hailed as a civil god for converting his country into the world's first
Islamic nuclear power, but regarded by the West as a dangerous deserter
responsible for smuggling technology to fraudulent lands.
He failed after being transferred to the KRL Hospital in
Islamabad with lung problems, state-run broadcaster PTV reported.
Khan had been admitted
to the same sanitorium in August with Covid-19, it said. After being permitted
to return home several weeks ago, he was transferred back after his condition
deteriorated.
Pakistan's President Arif Alvi said in a tweet he
was"deeply oppressed to learn about the passage of Dr. Abdul Qadeer
Khan", who he'd known personally since 1982.
"He helped us develop nation-saving nuclear deterrence
and a thankful nation will nowise forget his services."
Khan was lauded for
bringing the nation up to par with arch-rival India in the itty-bitty field and
making its defenses" impregnable".
Announcements by
But he inaugurate
himself in the foreign crosshairs when he was criminated of unethically
partaking in nuclear technology with Iran, Libya, and North Korea.
Khan was placed under
effective house arrest in the capital Islamabad in 2004 after he admitted
running a proliferation network to the three countries.
In 2006 Khan was
struck with prostate cancer but recovered after surgery
A court ended his house arrest in February 2009, but Khan's
movements were strictly guarded, and he was accompanied by authorities every
time he left his home in an upmarket sector of overgrown Islamabad.
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