India's test of its first nuclear weapon in 1974 was not an ordinary occurrence in the Indian subcontinent;

This resounding event ignited the nationalist sentiment of many in Pakistan, including Abdul Qadeer Khan - who died today - and ignited his enthusiasm for a similar achievement for his country, rival India.

At that time, the late was working as a metallurgical engineer in a uranium enrichment plant in the Netherlands, and dreams of advancing his country and including it in the nuclear club tempted him to do more research and exploration and to continue working day and night to achieve that ambition.

During the period between his work in the Netherlands and the achievement of his country, many waters ran under the bridge of the relationship between the father of the Pakistani nuclear bomb and the successive governments that ran his country, reaching the point of placing him under house arrest and demanding an investigation against him on the grounds of accusing him of transferring nuclear secrets to other countries.

Below are a number of notable stations in Khan's path and career.

- Abdul Qadeer Khan was born

on April 1, 1936 in the city of Bhopal in India during the British occupation and before the secession of Pakistan from India. Those who put their influential fingerprints in the Pakistani deterrence program against it.

He moved between several

European

universities

and educational institutions in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium in the mid-sixties, then obtained a doctorate from a Belgian university in the early seventies, before settling in the Netherlands as an employee in a uranium enrichment laboratory.

Khan was promoted in his work in the Netherlands,

until he became the chief metallurgist at the Dutch engineering company (FDO), which at that time was closely linked to the "Urenco" organization interested in uranium enrichment.

- While working for the Dutch company;

Khan, according to some sources, was secretly copying designs for centrifuges and compiling a list of companies that could provide Pakistan with technology to produce highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons, although Khan has repeatedly denied that he stole data from the Netherlands.

- Like India, Pakistan’s rival, joined the nuclear club

, detonating its first nuclear bomb in 1974 was a critical turning point in Khan’s career, as he was sending secret messages to Pakistani officials related to the development of Pakistani capabilities, but his messages were faced with disregard and lack of interest, but the huge bang caused by the explosion The Indian nuclear in the military, security and even the Pakistani political arena completely changed the Pakistani establishment's dealing with Khan. With the state of great anxiety and alertness that prevailed in Pakistan, the Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto summoned Abdul Qadeer in 1975 from the Netherlands to assign him the presidency of Pakistan's nuclear program.

Khan started a fast race against time to accomplish the impossible

, starting from the city of Kahuta near the city of Rawalpindi, where he established engineering laboratories for research in 1976, which were later renamed in 1981 as “Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan Research Laboratories” in appreciation of his research efforts.

- In September 1986, Pakistan managed

to reap the fruits of Khan’s efforts, when his efforts over many years culminated, when his country managed, between 18 and 21 September 1986, to carry out the first Pakistani nuclear explosion under the surface of the earth, according to the American newspaper The Washington Post.

This step was neither simple nor easy, but rather represents the most prominent military achievement that Pakistan has achieved in its history, and to this day it is still the only Islamic country that has reached the stage of producing a nuclear bomb.

Western sources indicate

that the work accomplished by Abdul Qadeer Khan in six years in his country's nuclear program, usually takes two decades in Western countries with well-established traditions in the field of nuclear industry.

His strict concealment of the success of the Pakistani nuclear bomb project helped him in this, and his relations with Western companies related to the field of enrichment and the construction of centrifuges helped him to buy what would help him to build his laboratories and develop his research.

- After Pakistan announced its joining the nuclear club

, Western countries began to put enormous pressure on it, economically and politically, so Washington imposed economic sanctions on it, and a case was filed against Abdul Qadeer Khan in the early eighties in the Netherlands accusing him of stealing secret nuclear documents, something Khan denied and the Islamabad government repeatedly refuted. The charge was subsequently dropped by the Amsterdam High Court.

He indicated that the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 forced the United States to try to contain Pakistan to help it in the security effort in the context of its attempt to implicate and weaken the Soviets, which eventually led to the lifting of American sanctions and the provision of hundreds of millions of dollars in economic and military aid to Pakistan (400 million dollars). .

Troubles have started chasing the father of the nuclear bomb

since 2003, when he and some Pakistani

nuclear

scientists were interrogated in December 2003 by the Pakistani security about the possibility of a relationship between the nuclear programs in Pakistan and Iran, and the leaking of nuclear secrets to countries such as Libya and North Korea.

With external pressures and demands from the United States to interrogate him

, and the investigation into the accusations against him continues, on February 4, 2004, Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan appeared on television screens to confess to leaking nuclear secrets to other countries, denying any responsibility for his country’s government, and the Pakistani Cabinet announced Subsequently, Abdul Qadeer Khan was pardoned in light of the great popular solidarity with those who are seen locally as a national hero.

In 2008, it was announced that Khan had been exposed to a viral infection and was

admitted to the hospital after suffering from a fever and low blood pressure.

A few days ago, he announced that he had contracted the Corona virus and was hospitalized as a result. With the improvement of his health, he was transferred to his home, but his condition suddenly deteriorated last night, and he died in a hospital in the capital, Islamabad.

Khan was exposed to other health problems

. Khan, 70, underwent surgery after suffering from prostate cancer in 2006.

The late Abdul Qadeer published about 150 scientific papers

in international scientific journals, and in 1981 he published the book “The Islamic Bomb” in English.

- Despite the accusations

and harassment

that Khan has been subjected to since 2003

, he has left influential imprints in the history of Pakistan and the region, and has made remarkable achievements for his country in its military path, and has maintained a lofty position that is not subject to discussion among his people. He also entered history as the first Muslim scholar to lead efforts to producing a nuclear bomb for his country.