March 26, 2004 ☼ Foreign Affairs
This is an archived blog post from The Acorn.
What the media missed out was that Dr Samar Mubarakmand was awarded a high civilian honour - Nishan-e-Imtiaz - for his contribution to nuclear physics. The good physicist is both the man behind Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme as well as the solid-fuelled missile programme.
Nukes and missiles it appears, are still revered in Musharraf’s U-turned Pakistan.
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