Science and technology in Pakistan
Dr. Prof. Abdus Salam was the first Pakistani winner of Nobel Prize in Physics
Science and technology is a growing and flourishing field in Pakistan. Since its independence from Great Britain in 1947, the newly-found nation of Pakistan has seen a large influx of scientists, engineers, doctors, and technicians assuming an active role in Pakistan's fields of science and technology. Pakistan has been known internationally for some of its major achievements in science and technology such as its possession of strong weapons in the military, growing base of doctors and engineers, and also a fair amount of its new influx of software engineers who have been actively contributing to Pakistan's booming IT industry.
Pakistan has achieved goals in Nuclear science, Space Science, Aerospace industries, biological industries, Communication technology and many other science. Pakistan is also the home country of many prominent scientists such as Dr. Abdus Salam who won a Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Achievements
In 1990, Pakistan became first muslim majority country to successfully developed artificial robot satellite which was launched by the China. In 1998, in reponse of India's 1998 nuclear testing, Pakistan under the leadership of Prime minister Nawaz Sharif, tested its six successfully and indegeniosly developed atomic devices, codename Chagai-I and Chagai-II. With the testing of these atomic devices, Pakistan became 7th nuclear power country in the world.
Information Technology
Mindstorm studios a lahore based company has developed a game called Cricket Revolution which also won the Cricket gaming awards 2010 - runner-up award
Scientific fields
Physics
and engineering. Numbers of the Pakistan is the home of Dr. Abdus Salam who became the first Pakistani winnner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979. From the period of 1960s to 1970s, Pakistan under the regime of Prime Minister of Pakistan Mr. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Military dictator Field Marshal Ayub Khan, carried out the research and development in physicsPakistani physicists contributed to the fields of Theoretical physics, nuclear physics, and other major and sub fields of physics. The research was preceded by such key physicists as Riazuddin, Ishfaq Ahmad, Pervez Hoodbhoy and Samar Mubarakmand, among others.
Engineering
Pakistan is the home of noted and influential engineers who have played an important role in the fields of engineering. Pakistan has produced famous inventors and engineers such as Munir Ahmad Khan, Asad Abidi, Ashraf Choudhary, and Abdul Qadeer Khan, among others.
Hoodbhoy Report
However, according to leading Pakistani nuclear physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy, scientific output in Pakistan is significantly lower than many other developing countries. Hoodbhoy cites that Pakistan has produces far fewer papers than neighboring India. In terms of the number of published scientific research papers, together with the citations to them, Hoodbhoy demonstrates that the output of Pakistan for physics papers, over the period from 1 January 1997 to 28 February 2007, together with the total number of publications in all scientific fields, is substantially lower than Brazil, India, China, and the United States. Hoodbhoy attributes this dearth to militant Islam in Pakistan and the promotion of pseudoscience by Muslim fundamentalists in Pakistani schools and universities.
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