ACTION PLAN FOR APRIL 2012

Dr Salam helped create several institutes of excellence including the Third World Academy of Sciences at Trieste in 1983; an Academy where Indians and Iranians, but no Pakistanis, were enrolled in large numbers.

So many Pakistanis are delighted that our criminal neglect of Dr Abdus Salam, Pakistan's only Nobel laureate, is not continuing. Pakistan's premier academic institution, Lahore University of Management Sciences, with Dr Adil Najam as its vice chancellor, has launched a fundraising campaign to establish the Dr Abdus Salam chair to honour Pakistan's brilliant physicist. What a tragic abandoning of a son who crowned the nation as he excelled globally in the task that Allah most preferred for his creation – the task of acquiring and indeed creating knowledge!