Chinese brothers thank you so much four your worthwhile addition to this post it is heart-warming to see your genuine interest and care for Pakistan. Sadly what is disappointing is Pakistani apologetic nature because they either don't have data or information to rebuke or just have submitted to the fact that Pakistan "is what it is".
I am one of those who passionately believe Pakistan can, will and SHOULD do a LOT more and will do a lot more. What is even more disappointing is that no one on this forum highlights the positive work of Pakistanis in the fields of science and Technology such as:
Robotics:
Pakistani robot participated in RoboCup 2009 for the first time in the competition’s history. The robot, named Saviour, was developed by a team of students from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (GIKI). Saviour is a rescue robot designed to find survivors in a disaster situation.
Robo cup is an international competition whose participants, as the name suggests, are robots. The main focus of the competition is RoboCup Soccer, which consists of teams of robots playing soccer. However, the contest also includes other competitions including RoboCup Rescue and Robot Dancing.
RoboCupTM is an international research and education initiative. Its goal is to foster artificial intelligence and robotics research by providing a standard problem where a wide range of technologies can be examined and integrated. :
Pakistani Rescue Robot Participates in Robocup | STEP - Science, Technology, and Education in Pakistan
Information Technology:
Pakistani university NUST is leading the way in Designing
"Super Speed USB 3.0" under the project titled:
Design and Verification of Low-Power, High-Speed IP Suite for Universal Serial Bus (USB 3.0) : Group for Research in Reconfigurable Architectures for Security in Communication in CEFAR
Other PhD students in Pakistan have undertaken research in projects ranging from:
GSM Interception: By analyzing the weakness in the protocols, GSM communications can be intercepted. The attack will be done based on the security flaws of the GSM protocols, and they work whenever GSM supports a weak cipher. These attacks could be practical because they don’t require any knowledge of the content of the conversation. These attacks will provide the facility to tap conversations and then decrypts them either in real time or later time. Here the attack is passive in nature that is, the conversation would be eavesdropped and then decryption would be done. Based upon the flaws and weakness in the protocols that GSM support, communication will be cracked. Here attack is only possible because the error correction codes are employed before the encryption. Thus due to such structured redundancy before encryption majorly reduces the security of the system.
Government agencies use GSM interceptors to capture communication between criminal groups for security purposes. However these interceptors are very expensive. We aim at developing an interceptor which will basically be much cheaper then the ones already made.
NUST Students have designed a new, cost effective RFID Tag which is being trailed by 3M USA for possible purchase.
Additional Reading:
NUST-SEECS (NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) about NUST-SEECS
It infuriates me when people talk about Pakistan and the fields of science and technology they say "Pakistan has never produced any scientists or researchers"... We have produced some of the world's best:
Physics:
Dr Abd-us-Salam
Theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Science, Dr Abd-us-Salam was born on January 29, 1926 in District Jhang. It was his work in Electro-Weak Theory which brought him the coveted Noble Prize in 1979. The accuracy of his theory was determined through experiments carried out at the Super Proton Synchrotron facility at CERN in Geneva. Dr Salam served as Advisor to Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission and was also honoured with Smith Award from Cambridge University. As the acknowledgement of his legendary services, the Government of Pakistan issued a stamp with Dr Salam’s picture in 1998. He passed away at the age of 70.
Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood
The inventor of SBM probe (instrument to check heavy water leaks in nuclear power plants which is still used world wide) and one of the key engineers of Pakistan nuclear programme, Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood closely worked with Dr AQ Khan. He was the first Project Director of the Pakistan Nuclear Bomb Programme at Kahuta Research Labs.
Mahmood got his Master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering from Manchester. He has written over 15 books. He was awarded Sitara-e-Imtiaz for his work.
Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy
UNESCO Award, Baker Award for Electronics (1968), Dr Abdul Salam Award (1984), Fulbright Award, and Faiz Ahmad Faiz Award is the introduction of Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy. Ph.D in nuclear Physics, Dr Pervez has been a faculty member of the Department of Physics, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, since 1973. He has produced different documentaries on science and on critical educational issues. He has authored four books on science and religion. More than 20 US campuses including MIT, Princeton, University of Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University engaged him as speaker. Being an analyst, Dr Pervez has appeared on several TV and radio networks including BBC, CNN, NBS and Fox.
Chemistry:
Professor Dr Atta ur Rehman
Ex-chairman of Higher Education Commission of Pakistan and Director of H.E.J. (Hussain Ebrahim Jamal) Research Institute of Chemistry at University of Karachi, Dr Atta ur Rehman is another glittering star in the galaxy of Pakistani Scientists. After doing A’ levels in 1960, Dr Atta did B.Sc. (Hons.) in Chemistry followed by M.Sc in Organic Chemistry from University of Karachi. For Ph.D in Organic Chemistry this gem of Pakistan won the Commonwealth Scholarship in 1965 and also did Ph.D from King’s College, Cambridge in 1968. Afterward, he was awarded Doctorate of Science by University of Cambridge in 1987 and Doctorate of Education by Coventry University, UK in 2007.
Dr Atta was the first Muslim scientist to receive the UNESCO Science Prize (1999). He has also been editor–in–chief of numerous international journals and editor of an encyclopedic series of books on natural product chemistry, being published since 1990. He remained Fellow at Kings College, Cambridge during 1969 to 1973. As an acknowledgment of his prestigious services in Organic Chemistry, Dr Attar ur Rehman was conferred Nishan-e-Imtiaz, Hilal-e-Imtiaz, Sitara-e-Imtiaz and Tamgha-e-Imtiaz in 2002, 1998, 1991 and 1983 respectively. Besides, he also has been bestowed Prime Minister’s Gold Medal and Pakistan Academy of Sciences-INFAQ Foundation Prize in Science in 1995.
Computer Engineering:
Dr Adnan Zaidi
Dual Ph.D from New York, Dr Zaidi was born in 1973. After receiving post-doctorate training and post-doctoral Award from Harvard University he is currently serving as a research scientist at an American University in Washington DC. Being a project director and associate for research and development at IBM, Microsoft, Boeing and Siemens, he has conducted various projects at these organisations. Dr Adnan has done extraordinarily well in cryptology (coding-decoding techniques), nanophotonics, power systems and power electronics research. He is the author of 34 papers and 19 articles. Owing to his tremendous achievements, this great scientist is renowned in the community of learned scholars and scientists in the United States, Europe and South Asia.
Zoology:
Dr Ahmed Mohiuddin
An eminent scientist, scholar and researcher of Pakistan, Dr Ahmed Mohiuddin was born on January 8, 1923 in Hyderabad Deccan (India). Having done M.Sc. in Biology from Osmania University and Ph.D in Zoology from University of London, Dr Ahmed migrated to Pakistan in November 1948. Few years after his arrival in Pakistan, he was appointed Chairman of the Zoology Department at Sindh University, Jamshoro. He also rendered his services at Quaid-e-Azam and Allama Iqbal Open University as Vice Chancellor. From 1986 to 1988 he served at East West University, Chicago as well.
He authored 37 books on science and research, and was the originator of the Pakistan Zoological Society. He was also awarded Fellowship from Pakistan Academy of Sciences and Royal Society of Tropical Medicine. He died on January 4, 1998 in Atlanta, USA.Eminent scientist in the field of Social Sciences
Engineering:
Asad Ali Abidi
UCLA (University of California, Los Angles) HSSEAS Lockheed Martin Award, IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award, IEEE Third Millennium Medal, Contest Award at the Design Automation Conference, ISSCC Jack Raper Outstanding Technology Directions Paper Award, IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Award, Best Paper Award of the 21st European Solid State Circuits Conference and TRW Award for Innovative Teaching is the foreword for Asad Ali Abidi. Abidi is a Pakistani electrical engineer and scientist and dean of LUMS’ School of Science and Engineering. He received his B.Sc. degree from the Imperial College, London, U.K., in 1976, and M.S. and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1978 and 1981 respectively. He is an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA) Fellow and a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
Pakistani Patents, since 2005:
IPO Pakistan - Patents - Gazette
Policy Based Research: LUMS (Development Policy Research Centre) are leading the way in policy based research:
DPRC - School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, LUMS
All these achievements of our heroes revitalise our energies. In fact, in the present scenario when our country is going through a tumultuous period where we have rarely anything to be proud of, knowing about the accomplishments give us hope. Their achievements encourage our young scientists to follow in the footsteps of the legends. As Allama Iqbal rightly says: “Zara num ho tou ya matee bohat zarqez hai saqee”
We should never apologise for Pakistan, it is our nation, we are proud of every little grain of sand on this blessed soil. To all those who agree with the OP or another “naysayer’s” here I ask you, why should we apologise? Why should we submit?
Look Pakistanis look, there is still hope, look at all the good in Pakistan. Sure we have fallen on hard times, but is Pakistan not your family. Tell me would you abandon your mother or father if they were poor or sick? Would you apologies for them?
We earn our own bread, we live in our own houses. We are our own men… We have nothing to apologies for, nor anything to submit to. Discussion is one thing, but to sit down with our heads sunken… That is weakness.
Pakistan Zindabad
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Having "conquered" a molehill that is Singapore (a rich, functional and relatively smooth-running one at that, I'll give you) does not automatically render you fit for scaling the Everest ...
