Prime Minister Imran Khan compared to Bhutto

 

Imran Khan compared to Bhutto

Imran Khan has the unique honor of being the first Prime Minister to be dismissed through a no-confidence motion. His admirers believe that just as Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's throne was overthrown on American Emma, ​​so too Imran Khan has had to wash his hands of the government for saying Absolutely Not.

Was Imran Khan really 'dangerous' for America and can he be compared to a powerful political figure like Bhutto? Let's turn the pages of history and find out.

The cornerstone of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Institute was laid in January 1955, which was transformed into the Atomic Energy Commission in 1956, but it was an orderly and large-scale exhibition until Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto died.

General Ayub Khan and his appointed chairman, the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Ishrat Hussain Usmani, wanted to acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. Ashok Kapoor, a professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He writes in his book Pakistan's Nuclear Development: "When Ayub Khan was asked what he would do if India detonated a nuclear bomb, he said, 'We will buy a built-in atomic bomb.'

When Bhutto was in Ayub Khan's cabinet, he oversaw Pakistan's nuclear program as Minister for Fuel, Natural Resources and Atomic Energy, and later when he became Foreign Minister, his interest in Pakistan's nuclear program did not diminish. Happened

Especially after the Indo-Pak war of 1965, he realized that Pakistan's defense was possible only with the acquisition of nuclear weapons. After the failure of Operation Gibraltar, when India was struggling to acquire nuclear technology, Bhutto, expressing public sentiment, said, "If India detonates a nuclear device, we will eat grass, we will go hungry, but we must build an atomic bomb." Will

Lieutenant General (retd) Kamal Matinuddin wrote in his book The Nuclearization Of South Asia: He considered them necessary for the national security of Pakistan.

It is said with certainty that Foreign Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto recommended this capability but Ayub Khan is said to have rejected this proposal because till then the army had no interest in nuclear technology. Later, as Foreign Minister, he confirmed this. (Page No. 81,82)

As soon as Bhutto came to power, he gathered scientists from all over Pakistan on January 20, 1972 at the residence of former Governor Sadiq Hussain Qureshi in Multan to advance the nuclear program.

Top physicists including Dr. Abdul Salam were present at the event. Bhutto sighed and said, "I dreamed that Pakistan would become a nuclear power but no one listened to me. Can any of you fulfill my dream?" "Yes, we can do this if we have the resources and the facilities," the scientists said.

It was during this ceremony that Bhutto announced the appointment of Munir Ahmed Khan as the new Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission.

 After lengthy negotiations with France, an agreement was signed to buy a reprocessing plant, but in the meantime, India added to Pakistan's woes by detonating its first atomic bomb at the Smiling Buddha site in Pokhran on May 18, 1974. On the one hand, the supply of heavy water for the power plant was cut off and on the other hand, the agreement to acquire a reprocessing plant from France also fell into disrepair.

In response to India's nuclear blasts, Bhutto convened a meeting of the Cabinet Defense Committee and approved the construction of an atomic bomb. There was no nuclear fuel plant or heavy water plant, and the purchase of a reprocessing plant from France did not seem to be on the rise.

 During this time Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto received a letter which he read and he was overjoyed and this letter became the basis of the success of Pakistan's nuclear program.

A young scientist working on Almelo Plant, an uranium enrichment plant in the Netherlands, wrote a letter to the Prime Minister saying that he wanted to serve Pakistan and he applied for a job in Karachi Steel Mills but the steel mill owners refused. Not listening

Prime Minister Bhutto asked his military secretary to take immediate leave of this young man and come to Pakistan and meet me. The young scientist was Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan who had done his PhD in Physics from Belgium.

When Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan met Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Bhutto said, forget the steel mill, tell us, how to make an atom bomb? Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan suggested building an atomic bomb with uranium instead of plutonium, which Bhutto accepted.

Initially, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan was asked to work in the Atomic Energy Commission, but when the bureaucracy did not allow his lentils to thaw and started blocking, Bhutto started working on a secret project codenamed "Project 706". Kept

 The Atomic Energy Commission was allowed to act as an exhibition horse, but the nuclear program was secretly transferred to Kahuta Research Laboratories under Project 706. How this project 706 led to Bhutto's execution will be discussed later in the next column.