Sacrifice for the Nation
By Farid Masood • May 28th, 2008 • Category: Politics • 20 CommentsThe day of 28th May, a day cannot be forgotten. In 1974 India tested Nuke which was an eye opener for Pakistan. Mr Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Mr Ghulam Ishaque Khan & Dr Abdul Qadeer were the key persons who taken the initiative to make Pakistan a state that can have a compatible deterrence.
Again on 11th & 13th May 1998 India tested nukes, which became a challenge for Pakistan to decide whether it should make a hot reply or compromise the situation. It was heard that army was not in the favor of hot test of nuke. But credit goes to Mian Nawaz Sharif and his government to decide what people of Pakistan want. So the day came on which Pakistan became the member of nuclear club.
Story behind the scene: There was a air cover given by Pakistan Air Force to the whole of the Chaghi area where test was conducted. It was reported that American satellites were unable to detect the move of nukes towards the test area. Daily Dawn reported that A vessel having no identification on it equipped with surveillance instruments remained near the coastal areas of Pakistan monitoring the situation and after the test that vessel was drowned by the crew. It was reported that some members of the crew were jews.
Underground test was carried out on 28th May 1998 afternoon. The scientists shouted Allah-o-Akbar (God is Great), and the color of that mountain began to change due the heat generate by the test. Then that crew charged with the test was evacuated from that area.
The purpose of this writing is listed below:
1. Neclear Proliferation Issue
2. Dr. Abdul Qadeer Issue
3. We (as nation)
1. Neclear Proliferation Issue
We hear that every country, which has the aim to acquire nuclear power whether for power generation or for defense purpose, should sign Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). America 1st tested nuke and used it on Japan in second world war. Then no other country had this technology. How this distributed to Russia and other countries. After the fall of USSR the scientist were hired by different countries were serving in different Russian states (USSR). This was result of the cold war and proliferation happened in the form of technology or manpower. In both the cases who is responsible for the nuclear proliferation.
2. Dr. Abdul Qadeer Issue
Dr. Abdul Qadeer is our National Hero. He sacrificed twice for the nation. No.1 He lived his life serving the nation on a negligible salary and put in his days and nights for the safety of the nation. No.2 Dr. Abdul Qadeer in his sole capacity was and is unable to do Neclear Proliferation, but he presented himself to save the nation once again.
3. We (as nation)
We as a nation are with our Hero. Pray for his long and healthy life for him and his family. We admire and cannot forget the services rendered by you Doctor Sahib and salute you. Due to our misdeed as a whole we are ashamed of what is happening, the respect you deserved was not extended. We salute you and the services of your co-workers for this achievement. Heartiest Regards from the nation.
P.S. 28th May is two days ahead but i feel helpless and cannot stop myself to publish the post before it.
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Based on sentiments and personal emmotions. The writer has not done any serious research. It is unfortunate and most irresponsible. Ignorance can be cured by learning (acquiring knowledge through hard work of serious studies and research), but stupidity is a malady without any remedy. It is also a strange phenomena that people devoid of normal intelligenge go public with this deficiency instead of keeping their secret by not openning their little mouths in public.
This Aftab Alam seems to have some personal grudge against Farid Masood. Bhai Farid, tell me honestly that you havent stole the cow of Aftab?
Aftab S. Alam has nothing personal against your bhai Farid. No, no he has not stolen at least my cow.
Now, why did I say above what I did. In my view when you take the liberty of writing something and you wish it to be of some value then it is your responsibilty to equipt yourself with knowledge. After all the purpose of putting down your opinion and sharing your thoughts with ordinary people, like myself, is to educate them and provide information. Right? What you write must be based on truth, only truth, nothing but the truth.
There is an old adage which sates: Verba volent, scripta manent (roughly translated, spoken words fly away with wind whereas what is written remains for ever).
Even my saying “Bhai” to Farid has made you angry. Brother Aftab, you fume too much, not good for health. Perhaps you are very desperate as your boy Musharraf is about to meet his fate.
Rahim Shah Sahib
Welcome Sir again on TPS, You always visit posts related to national issue, every sincere Pakistani should do it. espacially this post needs comments like you left last year, I remember with gratitute and plz allow me to narrate it here again:
Nara-eTakbeer ALLAH-O-AKBAR
Profound Regards
Mr Aftab, Writer and others,
First of all, i feel shame to even address you on such important day. You are the people who tries to deviate things on wrong track. Tell me, who is defending this country? The Army or Nuclear Weapons/Missiles? If you say Army then you are living in some other world. Our enemy is only afraid of our Missiles and Nuclear Bombs and due to this we are taking breath in our Country. I know why you opposing it… because It was started by PPP Leader Zulfiqar and confirmed it on international level by PMLN leader Nawaz Sharif ( Regardless of direct telephone threats from USA).
Lets come the other point…that you people uses from deviating innocent Pakistanis from right track. i.e. in short is COST… Am I right.
for that please make it clear that total cost incurred in last 40 years on this Nuclear war heads and missile program is less than 2 Military Budgets. You will be amazed but it was ensured by independent resources of Pakistan lot of times. If you can bear Trillions of Amount for Military so these Military Officers can make lot of housing societies and concur Pakistan after every 8 to 10 years then Budget for Nuclear War heads is nothing.
Now come to results of 60 years of Trillions and trillions of budget spent on Military and minute amount spent on Nuclear War heads…. Our respectable scientists are making 35 missiles with same cost that we gives to US for buying 1 F-16… Pakistan is not relying on 1 F-16 only… This Army is bought lot of ammunition and guns till we not tested our first Missile. Our Missiles and Nuclear war heads are made in Pakistan and at very cheap cost where as our whole Army is dependent on USA and France for buying military equipments an guns etc… From last 10 years…tell me a single agreement with France or US for buying guns and fighters at large scale. Its just because 35 Missiles = 1 F-16 and result is 100% opposite. F-16 can’t save you but only 5 or 6 Missiles are enough to keep enemy away from borders.
Now comes to efficiency. Our Missile program can target any place in sub continent but F-16 can’t reach far inside Enemy territories. They are not afraid of your fighters and guns or tanks…but they are afraid of Missile and Nuclear Bombs. Then why we are still spending so much on ARMY… even they have stopped big buying from last 10 years… after all where this money is going which ARMY is taking from us in terms of Taxes. They are simply getting more budgets than before but spending on their own entertainments and making villas, houses, agriculture lands etc etc. You biased guys point out on Nuclear Budget ( which is nothing in front of White elephant-ARMY) but you supports for giving more to this Army…because you are licker of WARDI and MUSHARRAF.
Afra you other point is concerned… give education etc to People… Tell me… India is spending much much much more than Pakistan on Nuclear studies and research… Is there Government have left nothing in his pocket to spend on Infrastructure and on Education. No Sir, They are having excellent standards in education and Infrastructure too. They have more good railway system, they have more highways and bridges, they have more schools, they have good education level, they are good in medical services… why… Because there is democracy in country and judiciary is free and fair. But here… Military is eating us… by getting budgets as well as ruling and taking all development budgets also. If you not believe then see last 5 years reports of Budgets… you will find that billion and billions of civilian development budgets are also taken away by Military on order of Musharraf. I’m not blind so can see things but you seems blind or tries to cover things because you are licker of ….
Do you think that if you would not start Nuclear Institution is Pakistan then we will be living like good nations… NO…simply NO. We would be living like hell. today at least we are secure due to this technology and tomorrow same technology will take out Pakistan from darkness that is given by Musharraf regime and special gift to KARACHI for supporting him. If you want to change, then follow India or China style… or solve Kashmir problem.
You can’t change and it is 100% assured that you will always oppose right and support wrong. I can even bet here that if start discussion of Religion, you will start opposing it also by bringing twisty arguments. This was problem is Jews but now Muslims started adopting it. It your attitude problem. but whole nation is not like you. People knows and understands.
If India commits mass suicide / does something stupid with its damn nuclear facilities, then must we follow them?
Prof. Rehman Gul Says:
July 2nd, 2007
I salute to President Musharraf, who very intelligently controlled the situtation and not only saved the nuclear program, but also Dr. AQ and the prestige of country.
What a statesman he is.
“What is a nuclear explosion like?
Well, put briefly, it produces blast, light, heat – all in enormous quantities – and varying amounts of radioactive fallout. The intense white light of the explosion can cause immediate blindness in people, even through closed eyelids, as much as twenty or thirty miles away. The monstrous heat flash vaporises anything nearby and causes raging fires at distances of many miles. Two things follow the flash: a massive shock wave, which spreads destruction as it moves out at supersonic speeds, and a huge fireball of incandescent gases. The shock wave completely disintegrates everything within a radius of six kilometres of ground zero. The fireball melts everything beneath itself, ignites firestorms for many miles around and, because of its enormous size and ferocity, sucks all the oxygen out of the air below and around it.
As the gigantic mushroom-shaped cloud rises, displaced air strikes back into the near vacuum and generates tornadoes that rage through the devastation. And then, from the mushroom cloud, rain and ash begin to fall – deadly, radioactive rain and ash. The upper levels of the mushroom cloud dissipate into the stratosphere, as high winds carry the radioactive particles to settle onto distant places.
The rain, the ash, the smoke, all emit hard radiation. So does the ground they fall on, or the water or the air carrying the particles. This radiation comprises alpha, beta and gamma rays, all of which are lethal for living things.
Actual contact with radioactive ash or dust causes deep burns and sores that penetrate to the bone and kill within a matter of days. Exposure to high doses of radiation causes no immediate symptoms; but, within the first week, there is diarrhoea, vomiting, fever and nosebleed, leading to internal haemorrhaging, emaciation and death within the second week. There is no survival. All those so affected will die.
Median doses of radiation also result in nausea and vomiting; by the end of the second week, there is loss of hair, haemorrhaging and emaciation leading to death in the third week by half the people so exposed. Children are obviously in greatest danger.
Beyond radiation sickness, come genetic alterations, mutations and changes. Whole generations are doomed to distortion. Children are born severely deformed, crippled or grossly mutated into monstrosities. The incidence of leukaemia and other forms of cancer among people otherwise unaffected, increases manifold.
The comments above relate to what happened at Hiroshima. Today’s Bombs can be many times larger and more lethal. The core point about these weapons, dear Reader, is that they are not primarily targeted against installations or meant to be used by combat forces against one another, as other weapons are. These are weapons of mass destruction that are primarily targeted against civilian populations. “
“First, we need to understand what nuclear weapons do. As we sit over here in Islamabad at the Quaid-e-Azam University - just a mile away from the Presidency and Parliament - just think of what an Indian nuclear attack would mean for us. Fortunately, you and I shall have vapourised in a matter of moments. But people who are at a distance of a few miles from the centre of the explosion won’t be so lucky. They too will die, but slowly and painfully from physical injury, radiation sickness, poisoning, cancer or the other horrible ways by which atom bombs inflict death and destruction. The public in Pakistan and India need to be informed that there are no winners in a nuclear war, and no cause great enough to justify fighting one.”
“An assembled nuclear weapon can detonate if there is a fire, accidental explosion, or an airplane carrying the weapon crashes. This nightmare scenario led U.S. nuclear weapon designers to struggle for ten years or more to develop what are called ‘one-point safe’ nuclear weapons. Pakistani and Indian weapons are unlikely to have these very elaborate safety features, and so the danger of mishaps is non-negligible. Given how prone we are to accidents and sabotage - as evidenced in the Ojhri Camp tragedy of 1987 or the Bhopal gas tragedy - I think there is real reason for worry.”
Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy is a nuclear physicist who teaches at the Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.
I know Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy personally and if you want to get his opinion that whether Pakistan should keep this technology or not… His answer will be in favor of Atomic Technology… reason is not because Atomic Bomb can spread such and such destruction on large scale but because we have to keep it to balance powers in region.
You said about Japan… Japan took assurance from other powers that they are ready to demilitarize given that you give me assurance that you will not attack on me again. And today US even regrets on his that decision because Japan won economic race and competing US. If today India assures that they will never attack on us or our other enemies…then I will simply say…take these atomic bomb parts and throw in Sea… But how you can live respectfully when your don’t have equal power as your enemy has?
If you want to copy paste Scientists comments then also past Dr. Samar Mubarak comments and see whether this bomb will explode if plane will crash. Just get info. Sir, my very close relatives are scientists and I know a lot that even India attacks on Islamabad … we will be having time to fire back and our Atomic bomb or missile is not keeping in one place… You can’t even imagine where where these scientists are keeping them. Our enemy satellites is even unable to recognize it.
Interviewer: How is it possible Mr.Samar, if you put such a weapon on the road and I will give a truck to a suicide bomber who will hit the weapon on the road.??
Dr. Samar Mubarak: No, he will only break the nuclear weapon by hitting it but it will not detonate. If an atomic bomb which is fitted onto a missile or an aircraft and if that missile or aircraft is launched and crashes inside your own country, that weapon will not work, the weapon will fall and break but will not detonate.
There is a mechanism and procedure for its detonation, first you give it a code, if you throw a weapon on the ground, it will break but a nuclear explosion will not take place, the explosive inside it will explode, but the nuclear reaction that has to take place will not be triggered. It will be just like detonating 100 kg of explosives.
Dear Aftab, I’m not targeting you by pasting this part of his interview. Its just for information for all of readers. There are lot of misconceptions about Atomic Bombs and Missiles. Its not as simple thing and it not works as normal bomb. Otherwise whole world be having this technology.
“…..Children are obviously in greatest danger.”
“Children are born severely deformed, crippled or grossly mutated into monstrosities. The incidence of leukaemia and other forms of cancer among people otherwise unaffected, increases manifold.”
“These are weapons of mass destruction that are primarily targeted against civilian populations.”
“The public in Pakistan and India need to be informed that there are no winners in a nuclear war, and no cause great enough to justify fighting one.”
Saleem Bhai, I sicerely and honestly believe that most of the countries of the West have opted out of such mode of destruction otherwise it is not that we are the only smart people around with a bomb and the BEGGING BOWLS in 165 million hands.
Aftab S. Alam’s Comment # 10
War heads are never kept in assembled state, that is why you had heard a statement that Pakistan can deploy a nuclear war hear in 30 minutes. The detonator is stored far away from the device as a matter of safety. Nuclear Devices cannot ignite itself in normal storage conditions.
This safety practice is also employed on other non-nuclear weapons where required. You must have known the ‘Ojeri Camp’ incident in Rawalpindi on April 10th many years back. Those rockets didn’t exploded, the damage went on due to their strike, if all of them had exploded after striking the damage would have been many times greater then it happened
Oh! I am sorry Mr. Farid Masood this Professor Dr. Hoodbhoy doesn’t “seem to know” about these things as much as you do. I quoted him under “wrong” assumption, may be I should have asked you.
Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy is a nuclear physicist who teaches at the Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.
“An assembled nuclear weapon can detonate if there is a fire, accidental explosion, or an airplane carrying the weapon crashes. This nightmare scenario led U.S. nuclear weapon designers to struggle for ten years or more to develop what are called ‘one-point safe’ nuclear weapons. Pakistani and Indian weapons are unlikely to have these very elaborate safety features, and so the danger of mishaps is non-negligible. Given how prone we are to accidents and sabotage - as evidenced in the Ojhri Camp tragedy of 1987 or the Bhopal gas tragedy - I think there is real reason for worry.”
“An assembled nuclear weapon can detonate if there is a fire, accidental explosion, or an airplane carrying the weapon crashes”
this is what i am saying, weapons in normal conditions are not stored in assembled condition. Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy is saying that nuclear arsenal are prone to danger when they are assembled. And most of the Ohjri Camp weapons didn’t explode (its reality) as they were not assembled. Assembled device with detonator needs more care and safety than an un-assembled device.
Try to understand things, don’t become blind in hatred.
I do hate all such weapons of total destruction of life in all its forms and shapes and I think you should also not be in love with it. It is a terrible thing at enormous cost to the poorest of the poor Pakistanis. I do hate the idea of acquiring such a God forsaken equipment and then go around with our perenial begging bowl in all the 165 million sets of hands of my people. Does it make you proud? It makes me upset and very sad.
Farid Masood, I am sorry if I somehow communicated hatred. It is unfortunate for me that you got this impression. I have no reason to hate you or anyone for that matter, if anything I love you for your active participation in these often conflicting and acrimonious debates. For me personally it is a source of personal enrichment; of course I would have preferred you with a more compatible opinion with mine. We are both interested in our country, our society and all that entails it, which is great.
Well said, finally a good report on this stuff