Dr. Qadeer Khan plans to challenge MDCAT a few hours before his death

About 11 hours before his death, nuclear scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan revealed that he would challenge the defective medical and dental school entrance exam in court.

"I will submit a petition in the Islamabad High Court on Monday to challenge the defective MDCAT (Medical Student Admissions Test) because it has destroyed the future of hundreds of thousands of students." These are the remarks made by Dr. Khan on Saturday night during a conversation with Dawn on issues related to the results released by the Pakistan Medical Council (PMC). This shows how much he cares about the problems faced by ordinary people, and the pain of candidates who were asked by PMC to ignore the initial results in this particular situation. He believes that the government has introduced the wrong Medical and Dental College Admission Test (MDCAT), jeopardizing the future of medical students in the country.

According to media reports, PMC announced that approximately 125,000 candidates—65% of the total—have failed to obtain a passing score. The scribe received a call from Dr. Khan at 6:28 on Saturday afternoon. The nuclear scientist said that he was very upset about the future of medical students, so he decided to challenge this issue in IHC. Regarding his health, Dr. Khan said in a nervous voice that he had gone home after receiving Covid 19 treatment in the hospital, although he still felt unwell. "I have pain all over," he added.

Since the scientist who made the country an atomic energy country is no longer there, it is uncertain whether his family will continue to petition. Earlier, Dr. Khan told Liming that he was not satisfied with the current ruler because he did not ask about his health when he was hospitalized for Covid-19. In his recent letter to the current Chief Minister of Sindh, Murad Ali Shah, Dr. Khan expressed his dissatisfaction with the attitude of the federal government. "It feels so good. The PM in Punjab, KPK and Balochistan is waiting to hear the good news of my death," he wrote. Dr. Khan was born in Bhopal, India in 1936. His life has experienced ups and downs, but after Pakistan’s nuclear test in 1998, he was in trouble. Since then, he had to live a difficult life called "protective protection" by the authorities. ".

It is no exaggeration to say that Dr. Khan can be called a "good morning" person by his friends and fans because he used to send blessing massages after offering morning prayers before sunrise. The silence on the phone on Sunday shocked many people because he was unable to express his best wishes to people until the news of his death was heard around 7 in the morning. People will remember him not only because he was the designer of Pakistan’s nuclear program, but also because of his contributions to the education and social welfare sectors. According to his family, he and his wife operate more than 100 educational and social welfare institutions across the country, especially in remote areas. In 1947, after the subcontinent split, Dr. Khan immigrated to Pakistan with his family. In 1960 , he obtained a  degree of science from Karachi University , then went to Berlin to study metallurgical engineering, and to the Netherlands and Belgium to complete advanced research.

In 1974, he joined the Pakistan nuclear program dreamed by then prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and founded the Khan Research Laboratory in 1976 and served as its chief scientist and Director for many years. When India conducted a nuclear test in 1998, the entire country was waiting for Pakistan’s strong response, and finally under his supervision, a nuclear test was conducted in Chagai, Balochistan.

Dr. Qadeer Khan is a rare national hero. He has won three of the highest civil awards to recognize his contribution to the country and make national defense insurmountable. They are Hilal-i-Imtiaz he obtained in 1989, followed by Nishan-i-Imtiaz obtained in 1996, and then again in 1999. Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan is the author of lot of research papers and publications. Some of them are: Progress in Physical Metallurgy in 1972 (English, German, and Dutch), Metallurgical Thermodynamics and Kinetics (English, German, and Dutch) in 1983, and A.Q. Khan's speech on science and education in 1997.