Abdul Qadeer Khan (Mohsin-e-Pakistan)

Born:                  27 April 1936 (age 73)
                          Bhopal, India
Residence:  Islamabad, Pakistan
Nationality:    Pakistani
Fields:                Metallurgical Engineering
Awards                Hilal-e-Imtiaz (14-8-1989)
                            Nishan-e-Imtiaz (14-8-1996 and 23-3-1999)

Abdul Qadeer Khan, Hilal-i-Imtiaz (HI), Nishan-i-Imtiaz (NI) (twice), (Urdu: عبدالقدیر خان; born April 27, 1936), known as A. Q. Khan, is a Pakistani nuclear scientist and metallurgical engineer, widely regarded as the founder of Pakistan's nuclear program. Very well known in the world for getting  nuclear technology designs and using them to make Pakistan's nuclear weapons.


Early life
               "Khan was born in a Pashtun family in Bhopal, India in 1936. His father Abdul Ghafoor Khan was an academician who retired from Education Department in 1935 and settled permanently in Bhopal. In 1947, the family, emigrated from India to Pakistan. Khan studied in St. Anthony's High School and then enrolled at the D. J. Science College of Karachi, where he studied physics and mathematics under the supervision of noted solar physicist dr. Bashir Syed. He obtained a B.Sc. degree in 1960 from the University of Karachi, majoring in physical metallurgy. After his graduation, he worked as an inspector of weight and measures in Karachi. In 1961, he resigned from his position and flew to West Germany to study metallurgical engineering at a technical university there. He then obtained an engineer's degree in 1967 from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, and a Ph.D. degree in metallurgical engineering under the supervision of dr. Martin Brabers from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, just outside of Brussels, in 1972. Khan is very fluent in German language and he wrote his thesis in German rather than using English language."(Wikipedia)

Work in the Netherlands
Relationship with Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Development of nuclear weapons
Missile Program Competition
1998 Pakistan Atomic Weapon Testing

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