KARACHI, May 27 (APP): The `Youm-i-Takbeer’ would be celebrated
on Sunday to commemorate the historic nuclear tests conducted on May
28 in 1998 by the then government of Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz
Sharif.
This also make Pakistan as the seventh nuclear power of the world
and the first in the Muslim world.
” This is a memorable day in the history of Pakistan”, remarked a
former federal minister for petroleum, Haji Hanif Tayyab, while
talking to APP here on Saturday.
He said that on this day in the year 1998, Pakistan under the
leadership of Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, emerged as the
first Islamic country in the world with atomic capability.
This, he added, also helped in making the defence of Pakistan
invincible, he added.
Haji Hanif Tayyab, a veteran politician and president of Nizam-i-
Mustafa Party, paid rich tributes to all those who contributed towards
making Pakistan a nuclear power.
He also praised the role of Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif,
scientists including A.Q. Khan as well as all others.