Dr Abdus Salam: Pride Pakistan does not deserve

Why take pride in his achievements now when he is gone? What suddenly makes him eligible to be a pride for Pakistan? Graphic: Sunara Nizami

REJECTING COUNTRY'S

MOST ILLUSTRIOUS SON

by Anam Khalid Alvi

Professor John Womersley, Chief Executive of the Science and technology Facilities Council, told reporters at a briefing in London that they have discovered a particle consistent with the Higgs boson. 

I’m sure that strikes a nerve with many knowing Pakistani’s. The Higgs’ boson, in Pakistan, is synonymous for Dr Abdus Salam; a scientist who was at the fore of this frontier of discovery in the 1970s. But rather than appreciation for his magnificent achievement, he was shunned and sidelined.

Why?

Dr Abdus Salam, Pakistan’s first and only theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate, was also an Ahmadi.

Science, poetry and prejudice

Abdus Salam receiving the Nobel Prize for Physics from King Carl Gustav of Sweden in 1979.

"...nations which do not honour their great men cease to produce them"

by Kunwar Idris 

Note for WoP readrs: A beautiful piece by Kanwar Idris once again forwarded to me by ZJeddy of Treasure Chest weblog. Khalid Rafique, a member of Jeddy’s email club had the following note on this piece about the two great sons of Pakistan, both of whom were persona non grata in this land of the pure.