Abdus Salam. ByToday,29th January is the 96th birthday of Dr. Abdus Salam Waseem Altaf One was the son of a head clerk in the education department; the other, daughter of a small contractor, orphaned at 7, both from the Indo-Pak subcontinent won the Nobel Prize in 1979- Abdus Salam and Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (a.k.a Mother Teresa). Prof Dr. Abdus Salam was from the Ahmaddiya community which was declared ‘non-Muslim’ in 1974 through a constitutional amendment. Dr. Salam, the first Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize, preferred to remain a Pakistani national all his life, whereas a scholar of his stature could have honored any country of the world by adopting its citizenship. He remained the citizen of a state which ensured that he be dishonored posthumously. In November 1996 when the great scientist was buried at Rabwah (renamed Chenab Nagar through a Punjab Assembly resolution passed in 1998) his tombstone read ‘Abdus Salam the First Muslim Nobel Laureate’. Needless to say, the police
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