Abdul Qadeer Khan Quotes
We all avow to struggle for making this country a welfare state where everyone is allowed to spend life on the basis of social justice and where everyone can live in peace and honour.
Khan, Abdul Qadeer. Speech at the Launch of Tehreek-e-Tahafuz Pakistan. Islamabad, 18 July 2012.
As hard as it is for us to imagine today, while her husband was President of the United States, the First Lady wrote a nationally syndicated newspaper column every single day with politics frequently the subject. While she usually agreed with the President, there were occasions where they seemed to not see things exactly the same. She tended to be more liberal than he. However, there were those who believed that when she criticized politicians, it was with FDR’s knowledge and blessing and she sometimes did his “dirty work.” Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the most influential people in the country—certainly more-so than any First Lady before and since.
This statement is at first hard to comprehend in that the Arab League is made up nations not one of which guarantees much less allows its citizens any modicum of freedom. However, the notion of freedom for many Muslim nations at the time was that individuals have obligations and duties while groups and nations are entitled to group freedom. Thus this Prime Minister of an autocracy with no freedom guaranteed any of its citizens can call for freedom for the Palestinian people as a group of Iraq as a nation. The concept is different than that of Western, industrialized democracies.
Abdul Qadeer Khan NI, HI, FPAS, DEng, known as A. Q. Khan, is a Pakistani nuclear physicist and metallurgist who is colloquially known as the "father of Pakistan's Nuclear Bomb". Khan is celebrated in Pakistan for bringing balance to the South Asian region after India's nuclear tests.
