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| PM Nawaz orders QAU's physics centre to be renamed after Dr Abdus Salam |
| 2016-12-06 |
| [DAWN] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... approved, in principle, the renaming of Quaid-e-Azam University's (QAU) physics department to the Professor Abdus Salam Center for Physics on Monday, according to a Press Information Department (PID) statement. The Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training was directed to draw up a formal summary of the renaming of QAU's National Centre for Physics for President Mamnoon Hussain's approval. The PM also approved a grant for five annual fellowships for Pak PhD students in the field of Physics through the Higher Education Commission in reputable international universities. The programme will be named the Professor Abdus Salam Fellowship, the PID said. The moves were made in order to recognise the contributions of Dr Abdus Salam, a major figure in 20th century theoretical physics, the PID said. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the field. He was the first Pak to receive a Nobel Prize in science. "His remarkable achievement earned fame and prestige for the country which rightly deserves to be valued," the PID said. I believe he's so far the only Pak to receive a Nobel prize in science. Left out of the description is the fact that he's not a proper Moslem, but an Ahmadi, which means somebody will blow himself up in protest and that there'll be political pressure to name the center after someone else -- perhaps a bustard-shooting Qatari will donate a few million and they'll name it the "Al-Thani Center for Moslem Science." |
| Posted by:Fred |