Credit: Heros of Pakistan via Wasim Saroya.
In HOP, there is a deliberate effort on our part to highlight not only the prominent heroes of Pakistan like Dr AQ Khan’s. Rashid Minhas’s biography but we also try to bring into the fore some of the Heroes which are being cruelly neglected by our people. One of those legendary people we are discussing today is the prominent scientist and the only Nobel Prize winner of Pakistan. Dr Abdus Salam.
Early Life
Abdus Salam was born in Santokdas, Sahiwal District, according to his senior sister and his obituary, even though he grow up in Jhang. At age fourteen, Salam score the maximum inscription yet record for the matriculation exam at the Punjab University. He win a filled erudition to the Government College University of Lahore, British Punjab State. Salam was a adaptable scholar, paying attention in Urdu and English literature in which he excel. Salam determined to attach with Mathematics.
Time is considered to be the most crucial element on this planet. Historians intentionally forgetting this Hero of Pakistan. Future Historians will take revenge and current Historians will vanish from the History on allegation of being liars and responsible to hide the facts.
Professor Abdus Salam is a hero of the world who hails from and currently RIP in Pakistan.I don’t think that the surviving educational elite should bother much because Pakistan has not done justice to its heroes as we see it. In fact Pakistan in its own ways has created and consequently done justice to A.Q. Khan father of the bomb, Ghazi Qadri the executor of Governor Taseer and Hafiz Saeed the great master mind of ennemy India attack. Above all due protection was given to the one who did the most for Islam(OBL).
Abdus Salam does not care about any apprciation from this failed state. Abdus Salaam has enough of recognition from respectable countries of the world from which he is not even a citizen. So why lament about recognition from a country that thrives of christian America?
Dr. Mohamed Boodhun
Great Dr Boodhun.
I believe the rest of this article has been removed from the “Heroes of Pakistan” web site, any reason why?
Prof. Dr. Abdus Salam, the first Nobel Prize winner Physicist of Pakistan cannot be called as the forgotten Hero. The fact is that he has performed so many scientific wonders, both in theoretical and practical physics, the his name will remain live to be remembered for all the time to come on the basis of his cherished ideals of ‘Atom for peace’ Peace is the basic need of human beings so that humanity may, not only survive but continue to grow further for all the future period. How such a great, grand towering personality, truly a genius son of the soil of Jhang, could be termed as forgotten. No Sir, no, how he could be ignored or forgotten especially in Pakistan where he remains as the only Nobel prized physicist(1979) since long. And in international world of science and technology Dr. Salam’s wonder works were aimed at making Sc./Tech. serves mankind in peaceful way and for this noble purpose, Dr. Salam established in 1964, an institution called as “The Inter. Center for Theoretical Physics” at Trieste, Italy in which young budding scientists/university students were selected from the Third World Countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America and who would come here to know and learn the latest/new developments taking place in the first world of advanced Sciences. This ICTP is still working and flourishing even after the sad demise of its founder in 1996. Anyhow one remembers that on Dr. Salam’s first death anniversary in Nov. 1967, the Unesco, Italian govt. the European Atomic Agency and other Scientific bodies, decided to rename this prestigious institution as “The Abdus Salam International Center of Theoretical Physics.” And believe it in Pakistan too,–NUST– the National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, a brain-child of Salam, was also renamed as ” Dr. Abdus Salam National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad.” Dr. Salam had also formed “The Third World Academy of Sciences” in the poor countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America to make science more popular in the service the poor people of these countries. In all these countries and scientific institutions Dr. Salam is kept lively/warmly remembered and honored
with all the due respect, something rare in these times of “self-praising habit” and mafias. In view of this all, Dr. Salam can not be and should not be termed as a “forgotten hero.” His thinking, his lofty views, his life-serving ideals and his passion of life, the passion for “Atom for Peace” all this will keep him lively remembered in the heart and soul of all the balanced thinking people of all the time to come. InshaAllah. May his soul live in peace. Amee.