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Duniyadari Episode 411.
In this episode, Harshita Pathak talks about the Father of Pakistan’s nuclear program, Abdul Qadeer Khan. He died on 10th October 2021 at a hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan. Dr Khan was hailed as a national hero for transforming his country into the world’s first Islamic nuclear power.
But he was also notorious for having smuggled nuclear secrets to states including North Korea and Iran. Prime Minister Imran Khan said Pakistan had lost a “national icon”.
Known as AQ Khan, the scientist was instrumental in setting up Pakistan’s first nuclear enrichment plant at Kahuta near Islamabad. By 1998, the country had conducted its first nuclear tests. Coming shortly after similar tests by India, his work helped seal Pakistan’s place as the world’s seventh nuclear power and sparked national jubilation. But he was arrested in 2004 for illegally sharing nuclear technology with Iran, Libya and North Korea. In a televised address, Khan offered his “deepest regrets and unqualified apologies”. He was pardoned by Pakistan’s then-president, Pervez Musharraf, but he was held under house arrest until 2009.
What is the full story of Abdul Qadeer Khan? How did he develop the nuclear bombs for Pakistan? Why he had to apologise on the National Television?
Watch the latest episode of Duniyadari to know all about it.
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