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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan (1928–1979)
Abdus Salam
theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (12 August 192417 August 1988) was a Pakistani military officer and politician who served as the sixth president of Pakistan from 1978 until his death in an airplane crash in 1988. He also served as the second chief of the army staff of the Pakistan Army from 1976 until his death. The country's longest-serving de facto head of state and chief of the army staff, Zia's political ideology is known as Ziaism.
Chagai District
district of Balochistan, Pakistan
Kharan District
district of Balochistan, Pakistan
Rahimuddin Khan
Pakistani military officer (1926–2022)
Agha Shahi
Pakistani diplomat (1920-2006)
Kirana Hills
hill in Pakistan
Riazuddin
Pakistani nuclear physicist (1930–2013)
Kahuta
thumb|Scenery in Kahuta Kahuta (Punjabi, Urdu: ) is a census-designated place, city and tehsil in the Rawalpindi District of Punjab, Pakistan. The population of the Kahuta Tehsil is approximately 220,576 at the 2017 census. Kahuta is the home to the Kahuta Research Laboratories (KRL) which was founded to undertake the Kahuta Project as part of the atomic bomb project. Before the Kahuta Project, the site was occupied by retired officers of the Pakistan Army and contained a small public community.
Władysław Turowicz
Polish Army Air Force air marshal (1908–1980)
Khan Research Laboratories
Pakistan military laboratory complex
Raziuddin Siddiqui
Pakistani physicist (1908-1998)
Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission
Pakistani governmental agency
Ishfaq Ahmad
Nuclear physicist
Project-706
Project-706, also known as Project-786 was the codename of a research and development program to develop Pakistan's first nuclear weapons. The program was initiated by Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1974 in response to the Indian nuclear tests conducted in May 1974. During the course of this program, Pakistani nuclear scientists and engineers developed the requisite nuclear infrastructure and gained expertise in the extraction, refining, processing and handling of fissile material with the ultimate goal of designing a nuclear device. These objectives were achieved by the early 1980s wit
Chagai-II
Chagai-II is the codename assigned to the second atomic test conducted by Pakistan, carried out on 30 May 1998 in the Kharan Desert in Balochistan Province of Pakistan. Chagai-II took place two days after Pakistan's first successful test, Chagai-I, which was carried out on 28 May 1998 in the Ras Koh area in Chagai District, Balochistan, Pakistan.
Farhatullah Babar
Pakistani politician
Ras Koh Hills
Pakistan Ministry of Defense range in Balochistan