Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

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.

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