Famous Personalities of
Pakistan
FORMER PAKISTANI CRICKETER
IMRAN KHAN
FAMOUS NUCLEAR SCIENTIST
DR.ABDUL QADEER KHAN
The Cricketing Legend
Former Pakistani Captain
Imran Khan
Imran Khan was born in
Lahore, the only son of
Ikramullah Khan Niazi, a
civil engineer, and his wife
Shaukat Khanum.
He was educated at the
Cathedral School in
Lahore, the Royal
Grammar School
Worcester in England,
where he excelled at
cricket, and at Aitcheson
College, Lahore.
Early in life, Khan
developed an interest in
cricket, which is an
extremely popular sport in
Pakistan.
Imran Khan
He was Pakistan's
most successful
cricket captain
leading his country
to victory at the
1992 Cricket World
Cup, playing for the
Pakistani cricket
team from 1971 to
1992, and serving
as its captain
intermittently
throughout 1982 to
1992.
Imran Khan
holding the ICC Cricket
World Cup 1992 Trophy
In 1971, Khan made his
Test cricket debut against
England at Birmingham.
Three years later, he
debuted in the One Day
International match,
playing against England at
Nottingham for the
Prudential Trophy.
As a fast bowler, Khan
reached the peak of his
powers in 1982.
As a bowler, he took 362
wickets in Test cricket,
which made him the first
Pakistani and world's
fourth bowler to do so. In
ODIs, he played 175
matches and took 182
wickets. His best ODI
bowling is documented at
6 wickets for 14 runs.
Imran Khan as a bowler
Khan achieved the allrounder's triple,
securing 3000 runs
and 300 wickets in 75
Tests. He is also
established as having
the second highest alltime batting average of
61.86 for a Test
batsman. He made 6
centuries and 18 half
centuries during his
Test carrier scoring
3,807 runs, with a
highest score of 136.
In ODIs, he played 175
matches and scored
3709 runs, including 1
century and 16 half
centuries, at an average
of 33.41. His highest
score remains 102 not
out.
Imran Khan as a batsman
As a captain, Khan played
48 Test matches, out of
which 14 were won by
Pakistan, 8 lost and the
rest of 26 were drawn. He
also played 139 ODIs,
winning 77, losing 57 and
ending one in a tie.
Khan's first year as
captain was the peak of his
legacy as a fast bowler as
well as an all-rounder.
Khan's career-high as a
captain and cricketer came
when he led Pakistan to
victory in the 1992 Cricket
World Cup. Khan
promoted himself as a
batsman to play in the top
order along with Javed
Miandad, but his
contribution as a bowler
was minimal. At the age of
39, Khan took the winning
last wicket himself.
Pakistan’s most successful cricket
captain, Imran Khan
DR.Abdul Qadeer
Khan
Khan was born in
Bhopal, India into a
Urdu-speaking family in
1936. His father Dr.
Abdul Ghafoor Khan was
an academic who served
in the Education
Ministry of the British
Indian Government and
after retirement in 1935,
settled permanently in
Bhopal State. After the
partition in 1947, the
family emigrated from
India to Pakistan, and
settled in West-Pakistan.
DR.Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistan’s famous nuclear scientist
and a metallurgic engineer
In 1972, the year he
received his doctorate,
Khan through a former
university classmate, and
a recommendation from
his old professor, joined
the senior staff of the
Physics Dynamics
Research Laboratory
(FDO) in Amsterdam.
Khan was very fluent in
German, French and
English, and the FDO
administration gave him a
drawing of a centrifuge
machine for translation.
However, Khan later
joined the URENCO
Group, the uranium
enrichment research
facility at Almelo,
Netherlands after
URENCO offered him a
prestigious job.
The Atomic Bomb Project- Pakistan
 The highly secretive atomic bomb project of Pakistan
was given a start on 20 January 1972, when
President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto chaired a secret
meeting of academic scientists at Multan. Only
senior scientists were delegated to meet with Bhutto,
the atomic bomb project was launched under the
administrative control of Bhutto, and the Pakistan
Atomic Energy Commission.
The Iniatiation
 Undaunted, Abdul Qadeer Khan wrote to Prime
minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, highlighting his
experience and encourages Prime Minister Bhutto to
make an atomic bomb using uranium, rather than
plutonium, the method Pakistan was trying to adopt
under the leadership of Munir Ahmad Khan.
 In the spring of 1976, Abdul Qadeer Khan joined the
atomic bomb project.
Kahuta
Kahuta was an ideal and
optimum location for
physics experiments,
therefore it was chosen
to be used for an
experiment. The
experiment was
conducted on 28th May
1988.
Qadeer Khan was
promoted as the senior
scientist of the atomic
bomb project.
The Nuclear bomb test was
conducted in Kahuta, led by nuclear
scientist, DR.Abdul Qadeer Khan
Success
 The experiment led to 24 more tests and a successful
uranium based nuclear weapon was invented which
was the first nuclear weapon of the world enriched
with Uranium.