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[AstanoshKhan]

Leading Scientist Dr. Shaukat Hameed Khan Joins PTI

Islamabad. April 27, 2012. Former Rector GIK Institute, Swabi and ex Member Planning Commission of Pakistan, Dr. Shaukat Hameed Khan, met Chairman Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf Imran Khan in Islamabad today and announced to join PTI. Present on the occasion was Sardar Asseff Ahmed Ali, former Foreign Minister and senior member of the party. Dr. Shaukat is a premier scientist of the country who worked for a long time in Atomic Energy Commission of Pakistan and rose to become its Chief Scientist. A Rhodes Scholar he is also a member of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences.

Chairman PTI Imran Khan welcomed him to the party and said that eminent people like Dr Shaukat joining the party is a further indication that people of Pakistan are looking towards Tehreek e Insaf as a party of change that will bring the country out of the difficult situation it finds itself in.

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Profile of Dr. Shaukat Hameed Khan

Awards and honors of Premier Scientist Dr. Hameed Khan who recently has joined Pakistan Tehreek Insaf(PTI).

''National Talent Scholar, (1959–61)
Gold Medal from Punjab University (1961)
Best All-Round Student, Gordon College Rawalpindi (1961)
An elected Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University (1962)
Pride of Performance award (1983)
Technology Gold Medal from Pakistan Academy of Sciences (1993)
An elected Fellow of the Pakistan Nuclear Society (2000)
Hameed Khan addressed a group of German parliamentarians on Vision 2030 in Berlin in October (2007)

Hameed Khani s a Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences. Khan previously worked for the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), where he retired as Chief Science Officer (CSO) in 2005. Khan has made numerous contribution to the field of Laser physics, and is an author of two books, which are heavily emphasized to the field of Laser sciences. Khan has also made important research and contribution in the fields of laser produced plasmas; Ultrafast High Voltage Switching; Spectroscopy, laser isotope separation, and precision measurement with lasers.''

Through dr. Rafi Muhammad Chaudhry, Khan was introduced to dr. Abdus Salam where prof. Abdus Salam had invited Khan to Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC). Khan joined PAEC in 1969 as a "Principle Science Officer (PSO)" where Khan had founded and established the foundation of Laser Group.

While in Pakistan, in the midst of 1971 Winter war, Khan was in Quetta, Balochistan, where he had met with future chairman of PAEC Munir Ahmad Khan. Munir Ahmad Khan who was paying a visit to then-prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, have had talked with the PAEC scientists in the development of the nuclear weapon.[4] Dr. Shaukat Hameed Khan was one of the few scientists who were invited and attended the "Multan Meeting" to meet with Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1974, shortly after the Indian nuclear test.[5] After the meeting, Khan who was the director of the Laser Labs, began to developed the nuclear weapon fuel techniques, and have done the preliminary worked on the different models for the nuclear weapon. In March 1974, Khan along with other PAEC scientists attended the meeting headed by PAEC chairman Munir Ahmad Khan and the science advisor to the Prime minister dr. Abdus Salam. In the meeting, Khan had suggested the Molecular laser isotope separation (MLIS) method for the Uranium enrichment process. However, it was declined as Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood had advocated for the Gas centrifuge route. The MLIS process is a highly complex method, with many difficult techniques, comparing to Gas centrifuge process. Both process were considered by the PAEC and, after demonstrating each processes, the PAEC decided to use Gas-centrifuge method for the Uranium enrichment project. Outvoted, the PAEC did not completely abandon the MLIS method and Khan continued to work on MLIS method in PAEC for research purposes only. In PAEC, Khan had developed the laser techniques and methods to work on the nuclear reprocessing methods. It was Khan's MLIS method that PAEC was succeeded to separate plutonium from the weapon-grade uranium. In 1970s, Khan's lab was sat up in the New Labs where he had developed the complex techniques for the Plutonium reprocessing. Khan was part of the small team of scientists that had central role in the development of the first nuclear device. In March 1983, Khan had eye-witnessed the first cold test of a nuclear device tested in Kirana Hills. His efforts led him to gain Pride of Performance award awarded by General Zia-Ul-Haq in a Presidential ceremony held in the Presidential office in Islamabad.
In 1985, Khan was made the director of the "Optics Labs" in PAEC. In 1990, the Government of Pakistan had ordered PAEC to build a Laser range-finder. The PAEC Chairman Munir Ahmad Khan had summoned dr. Shaukat Hameed Khan and assigned him the project. Khan and his team had built and developed the device indigenously, and when it was ready, the device was put in demonstration. However, after the demonstration, the Government of Pakistan had awarded the contract to dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan.[6] To avoid the confrontation between KRL and PAEC, the government had awarded another contract to PAEC to developed a Laser-guided bomb for the Pakistan Air Force. Khan was a designer of the Laser-guided bomb for Pakistan Air Force. Khan is notably known for his inventing complex Laser components for nuclear reactors to reduced the hazardous nuclear waste. In May 1998, Khan was among one of the senior scientist who had eye-witnessed the country's first and successful nuclear test in Ras Koh Hills.

More detailed profile from here.

Shaukat Hameed Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The most brilliant minds are making their way to PTI for obvious reasons. It reminds of a quote;

Siyasat Say Kinaara Kashi Ka Anjaam Ye Hoga... Keh Tum Say Kam Tar Log Utth Kar Tum Par Raaj Karayngay... Aflatoon

 

[darkinsky]

economists i understand but scientists are now becoming political??

reminds me of aeon flux movie

 

[yyetttt]

What will scientists do in PTI other then give PTI popularity?

 

[AstanoshKhan]

^^^ consider if our Defence Minister is a Scientist, or Education Minister is a Scientist, or IT and Telecomm Minister is a Scientist, or Water and Power Development Minister is a Scientist, or Petroleum and Gas Minister is a Scientist... how well that Ministry will be run? and where does it say, the Scientists cannot join politics? Do read the quote at the end of the first post.

 

[farhan_9909]

Scientist are good to

they will realize that we should open up R&D centres and invest more in R&D

benefiting Pak in long run

 

[AstanoshKhan]

^^^ the circle in Pakistan is completely opposite... middle failed, fake degree holders are ruling the educated lot... we need to turn this phenomenon around. We need the brightest and best in the parliament.

Look Musharraf had Dr. Attaurrehman as his IT and Education Minister, and where were wee in 3-years time. I still remember delegations from the UK use to come to take his planning for the growth of their IT industry and technology education.

 

[SamranAli]

^^^ consider if our Defence Minister is a Scientist, or Education Minister is a Scientist, or IT and Telecomm Minister is a Scientist, or Water and Power Development Minister is a Scientist, or Petroleum and Gas Minister is a Scientist... how well that Ministry will be run? and where does it say, the Scientists cannot join politics? Do read the quote at the end of the first post.

agreed 100%. Its better to hav higher educated profeesionals instead of fake degree holder jahils corrupts.

 

[Leader]

actually the brains of Pakistan are joining PTI plateforum because they know this the place from where they can deliver.


I am hoping for more.

 

[darkinsky]

^^^ the circle in Pakistan is completely opposite... middle failed, fake degree holders are ruling the educated lot... we need to turn this phenomenon around. We need the brightest and best in the parliament.

Look Musharraf had Dr. Attaurrehman as his IT and Education Minister, and where were wee in 3-years time. I still remember delegations from the UK use to come to take his planning for the growth of their IT industry and technology education.

i dont think dr attaur rehman was affliated to any political party and neither he run for elections

 

[Jango]

But sadly to win elections you have to get waderas which IK is doing.

 

[zip]

Hope imran wins this time .. His party management has to be competitive to cash in his popularity ..i think he will be leading a coalition govt this time .. Hope he can bring some fresh air

 

[AstanoshKhan]

DarkinSky wrote:
i dont think dr attaur rehman was affliated to any political party and neither he run for elections

So as Musharraf himself... he was a dictator and he handpicked the best for many organisations... Dr. Atta deliver in 3-years what the rest couldn't deliver in 30 odd years. It was because of him many student went on scholarships abroad through HEC... in those 3-years we saw dedicated IT universities all across Pakistan. Pakistan was seen as a role model in telecom development... what happened now... we aren't even able to launch 3G while Afghanistan can and where India and Bangla are moving to 4G now. Where are we heading with these middle-failed sitting in the parliament and running the ministries. I say for minister to be eligible for holding the ministry, he must have a PhD degree in that specific field... just like China.

 

[Safriz]

the paindoos of pakistan will still vote for their village idiot..as per usual.

 

[AstanoshKhan]

^^^ and that's why I say Imran Khan should include these Waderas in his party... once in power and with the introduction of local Govt. system, those people could be educated and empowered to make choose their leaders in the future.

 

[truthseer]

The scientific method should not be involved in politics. A ruler should not think of the ruled as nothing more than a scientific model.