Citizenship Amendment Bill: A new lease of life for the two-nation theory
Current Affairs Abdus Salam was a brilliant Physicist, a rare prodigy who went on to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. He was born in 1929 in Punjab in what was then undivided India.
Salam can also be considered the father of Pakistanās nuclear and space programs, which he anchored till he left the country, in protest. Salam was a devout Muslim of the Ahmadi sect. In 1974, the Bhutto government in Pakistan pushed through the Parliament a resolution that declared Ahmadis to be non-Muslim.
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He was never to return to Pakistan, his homeland. By every account, Salam was a patriot. He returned only after his death when he was buried next to his parents. The epitaph on his grave read, āthe first Muslim Nobel laureateā.
The epitaph was defaced and the word āMuslimā scratched off. The Pakistani constitution bars Ahmadis from identifying as Muslims and denies other religious rights to the community...Read more.
