28th May - Yom-e-Takbeer

[hanibal]

Re: 28th May - Yom-e-Takbeer

@Silaaj

To put in in perspective, Pakistan saw a greater significance of nuclear power pre-dhamaka, than it did post-dhamaka.

In the 70s, Pakistan setup KANNUP with Canadian help, and when sanctions forced Canada to pull out, Pakistani engineers built PARR, Khushab nuclear complex indigenously. Those were the days of realistic and meaningful efforts in the nuclear field.

In the past 20 odd years, there has been virtually no advancement, and all we have are small copies of 40 year old designs propping up in the form of Khushab 2, 3, 4 and so on, which add next to nothing to the grid.

Nuclear power is not known for its ability to blow up cities to smithereens. Its known for the value that is extracted from it, which helps people. Back in the 80s, Karachi was loadshedding free, while the rest of the country used to suffer an unbearable 1 hour a day outage. 30 years on, and despite atum bum, we have nothing to show for it, other than a petty youme takbeer.

And no, its not about PMLN, because other than being the party in power at the time, PMLN or Nwaz Sharif had nothing to do with the blasts.

You are right about KANUP and Canadians, things were going fine and Pakistan was also negotiating a nuclear deal with France where France pulled out of it on pressure from USA.

And you are also right when you say Civil Nuclear is better than the one for defense purposes…

We should not forget two things here:
1st while civil nuclear deals were going on, India did " Smiling Buddha" in May 1974, 3 years after defeating and cutting Pakistan in half…this should certainly alarm Pakistan, 2ndly, in Zia era, more focus was on defense than on civil development, hence we saw no development or next to nothing development in civil sector of Pakistan during Zia time…

Most importanrtly, i would like to stress that it was the nuclear technology of Pakistan which kept a million men of india at the borders…so yeah it saved us a bloodiest possible war…which in itself is a blessing.

With all this, civil nuclear development along with Space program should be the priorties of Pakistan under the same Atomic and Space Commission.

Thanks for clarification and yes i do agree that NS got the credit because he was in power, it could have been any xyz…thats thr reason in the OP i wrote it as Pakistan’s success rather attributing to a single personality…gave credit to all the rulers of Pakistan…not to one…
It was “Rah Chaldi Dee Dehari” and thats about it…