Amidst religious intolerance, Pakistan’s Nobel laureate fades away

Dawn: The two-room bungalow, the birth place of Pakistan’s only Nobel laureate, today stands empty, testament to the indifference, bigotry and prejudice surrounding the country’s greatest scientist.

Professor Abdus Salam, the child prodigy born to a humble family on the sun-blasted plains of Punjab who won accolades all over the world for his ground-breaking research in theoretical physics, is all but forgotten.

He was the trailblazer who helped pave the way to the recently hailed discovery of the “God particle” — one of the greatest achievements in science for the last 100 years — but as the world went into overdrive, Pakistan stayed largely silent.

Not even boasting from India, whose late physicist Satyendra Nath Bose also contributed to the discovery, snapped Pakistan out of lethargy.

And the reason? Because in the eyes of the law, Salam was a heretic.

“Our people are not educated. They just know this is the house of Dr Salam, who was a scientist, and they, including me, are unaware of his contributions. They also know he was Ahmadi,” said local resident Kamran Kishwar, 23.

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  1. My beloved Hadhrat Muhammad,saw,has been contradicted and shown by some Pakistani Politicians and “MOLVIES”,Peers-care-takers of GRAVES,so-called Islamic scholars have ascribed attributes to him which are a flagrant violation of the Holy Quran personified all through his life in WORDS & DEEDS–Hadhrat Muhammad,saw,said” 72 sects of muslims would be bound to”HELL FIRE” and ONE would be MUSLIM JAMA’AT(blessed with Khilafat Ala Minhaje Nabuwa)but Mr.Z.Bhuttoo enforced an un-Islamic VERDICT contradicting HADHRAT MUHAMMAD,SAW’s VERDICT in the CONSTITUTION of Pakistan over 40 years ago.The Holy Prophet of Islam prophesied these molvies as “PIGS & MONKEYS” like the Jewish pigs & monkeys, mentioned in the HOly Quran, and predicted that 72 sects of muslims would follow JEWS in latter days- SO, I am not surprised at all that PEOPLE AT THE HELM OF AFFAIRS in PAKISTAN DO NOT RECOGNISE & HONOUR PROF. DR. ABDUS SALAM,who not only UNDERSTOOD THE HOLY QURAN BUT SPENT ALL HIS LIFE TO PROVE SCINTIFICALLY ” THE ONLY ONE FORCE ALLAH-THE WAHID ” following the SUNNAH of HADHRAT MUHAMMAD,SAW and added with his NAME MUHAMMAD! Prof. Dr. Muhammad Abdus Salam-greatest Ahmadiyya Muslim Scientist of the renaissanced TRUE ISLAM predicted by THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH-MUHAMMAD-MAY ALLAH’S PEACE & BLESSINGS BE UPON HIM,ameen. THOSE WHO DO NOT CARE & HONOUR THE SEAL OF THE PROPHETS-HADHRAT MUHAMMAD,SAW, AND DARE TO GO AGAINST HIS DEFINITION OF MUSLIM & VERDICT OF 72 SECTS COULD NOT AND WOULD NOT, EVEN, MENTION THE “BRILLIANTLY SHINNING AHMADIYYA MUSLIM MOON OF SCIENCE ENLIGHTENING WORLD SCIENTISTS”
    ” Noore Khuda Hai kufr Ki Harkat Pe Khandazen -Phonkoo Se Ye Chiragh Bujhaya Na Jaiga!”
    IGNORING THE MOST RESPECTED AHMADIYYA MUSLIM PAKISTANI SCIENTIST WOULD ONLY HIGHLIGHT THE LACK OF INTELLECTUAL,SCIENTIFIC,RATIONAL,LOGICAL,MORAL & SPIRITUAL VALUES, UNFORTUNATELY, presently in some leaders in Pakistan!!! May ALLAH SAVE MY BELOVED PAKISTAN FROM SHORT-SIGHTED LEADERS AND BRING FORTH LEADERS LIKE Quid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, MAN OF PRINCIPLE, indeed,ameen.

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