Pakistan’s slice of the moon

India's government will naturally assume Hindutva that Chandrayaan 2 is its own achievement and demand to continue with the imagined Vedic glories. But the right credit goes elsewhere. Imagine if history can recover between 70 and 80 years and that Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has been replaced by Narendra Modi.

Instead of astronomy, India today is seeking astrology. Its university departments will have many mathematicians, but few of them will outshine feathers on physicists. Cancer treatment will be sought in yoga, while floods and earthquakes will be linked in some way to the killing of cows. Instead of inventing Chandrayaan, Indian scientists were searching for Fermana's fictional fantasy. Atheist Nehru brought to India the acceptance of European modernity. For this reason, Hindutva hates more than he hates Muslims and Christians in India. However, his insistence on "scientific personality," a unique foreign phrase invented while in prison, made India feed science. In the past, active reformists like Raja Ram Mohan Rui (1772-1833) have shown the way. As long as Nehru stood up, no Rishi or Yogi or army general could run a scientific institution, would Pakistan also get part of the moon? This depends on the quality of our scientists and if the culture of science develops. Of course, Pakistan did not have Nehru. There was another setback in the days of Zia al-Haq when the modernity of Sayyed Ahmed Khan was left with the remains of the Iqbal sign. To compensate for anorexia of science, the buildings were built for half a dozen scientific institutions along Avenida de la Constitución de Islamabad. They can close today and no one will notice. The current state of science, of all kinds except agriculture and biotechnology, is dangerous. As a filler area, this pathetic site quietly speaks of the Hatf and Shahin 3 missile programs but fails to determine the role of Subaru, if there is one. The last four presidents of Subcarco, along with their educational qualifications, are listed in Major General Reza Hussein (2001-2010, BSc), General Division Ahmed Bilal Hussein (2010-2016, Master), General Division of Caesar Anis Khorram (2016-2018, BSc) , And General Department Amer Nadim (2018 to date, BSc).

National achievements in space science are very meager. Where should the young Pakistani scientists point out the bright ones? Some great achievements are read every day: the spaceships that land on asteroids, new planets are discovered, black holes collide with distant galaxies, and so on. But the three most famous scientists in Pakistan have little to offer. Let us call them X, Y, Z.