FORMER PAKISTANI CRICKETERIMRAN KHAN

FAMOUS NUCLEAR SCIENTISTDR.ABDUL QADEER KHAN

Famous Personalities of Pakistan

The Cricketing LegendFormer Pakistani Captain

Imran Khan

Imran Khan

Imran Khan was born in Lahore, the only son of Ikramullah Khan Niazi, a civil engineer, and his wife Shaukat Khanum.

He was educated at the Cathedral School in Lahore, the Royal Grammar School Worcester in England, where he excelled at cricket, and at Aitcheson College, Lahore.

Early in life, Khan developed an interest in cricket, which is an extremely popular sport in Pakistan.

Imran Khanholding the ICC

Cricket World Cup 1992 Trophy

He was Pakistan's most successful cricket captain

leading his country to victory at the 1992 Cricket World Cup, playing for the Pakistani cricket team from 1971 to 1992, and serving as its captain intermittently throughout 1982 to 1992.

Imran Khan as a bowler

In 1971, Khan made his Test cricket debut against England at Birmingham. Three years later, he debuted in the One Day International match, playing against England at Nottingham for the Prudential Trophy.

As a fast bowler, Khan reached the peak of his powers in 1982.

As a bowler, he took 362 wickets in Test cricket, which made him the first Pakistani and world's fourth bowler to do so.

In ODIs, he played 175 matches and took 182 wickets. His best ODI bowling is documented at 6 wickets for 14 runs.

Imran Khan as a batsman

Khan achieved the all-rounder's triple, securing 3000 runs and 300 wickets in 75 Tests. He is also established as having the second highest all-time batting average of 61.86 for a Test batsman. He made 6 centuries and 18 half centuries during his Test carrier scoring 3,807 runs, with a highest score of 136.In ODIs, he played 175 matches and scored 3709 runs, including 1 century and 16 half centuries, at an average of 33.41. His highest score remains 102 not out.

Pakistan’s most successful cricket captain, Imran Khan

As a captain, Khan played 48 Test matches, out of which 14 were won by Pakistan, 8 lost and the rest of 26 were drawn. He also played 139 ODIs, winning 77, losing 57 and ending one in a tie.Khan's first year as captain was the peak of his legacy as a fast bowler as well as an all-rounder.Khan's career-high as a captain and cricketer came when he led Pakistan to victory in the 1992 Cricket World Cup. Khan promoted himself as a batsman to play in the top order along with Javed Miandad, but his contribution as a bowler was minimal. At the age of 39, Khan took the winning last wicket himself.

DR.Abdul Qadeer Khan

DR.Abdul Qadeer KhanPakistan’s famous nuclear scientist and a metallurgic engineer

Khan was born in Bhopal, India into a Urdu-speaking family in 1936. His father Dr. Abdul Ghafoor Khan was an academic who served in the Education Ministry of the British Indian Government and after retirement in 1935, settled permanently in Bhopal State. After the partition in 1947, the family emigrated from India to Pakistan, and settled in West-Pakistan.

In 1972, the year he received his doctorate, Khan through a former university classmate, and a recommendation from his old professor, joined the senior staff of the Physics Dynamics Research Laboratory (FDO) in Amsterdam.

Khan was very fluent in German, French and English, and the FDO administration gave him a drawing of a centrifuge machine for translation. However, Khan later joined the URENCO Group, the uranium enrichment research facility at Almelo, Netherlands after URENCO offered him a prestigious job.

The Atomic Bomb Project- Pakistan

The highly secretive atomic bomb project of Pakistan was given a start on 20 January 1972, when President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto chaired a secret meeting of academic scientists at Multan. Only senior scientists were delegated to meet with Bhutto, the atomic bomb project was launched under the administrative control of Bhutto, and the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission.

The Iniatiation

Undaunted, Abdul Qadeer Khan wrote to Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, highlighting his experience and encourages Prime Minister Bhutto to make an atomic bomb using uranium, rather than plutonium, the method Pakistan was trying to adopt under the leadership of Munir Ahmad Khan.

In the spring of 1976, Abdul Qadeer Khan joined the atomic bomb project.

The Nuclear bomb test was conducted in Kahuta, led by nuclear scientist, DR.Abdul Qadeer Khan

Kahuta was an ideal and optimum location for physics experiments, therefore it was chosen to be used for an experiment. The experiment was conducted on 28th May 1988.

Qadeer Khan was promoted as the senior scientist of the atomic bomb project.

Kahuta

Success

The experiment led to 24 more tests and a successful uranium based nuclear weapon was invented which was the first nuclear weapon of the world enriched with Uranium.