Two Pak scientists dump logic for ‘irrational thought’

 Pakistan’s two nuclear scientists have reportedly abandoned the logic for irrational thought.

Possessing advanced degrees in nuclear engineering from western universities, the two scientists have been deeply involved in creating Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme.

While noting that the Old Testament’s King Solomon –son of David and Bathsheba – harnessed energy from “djinns”, Mahmood says: “I think that if we develop our souls, we can communicate with them.”

One Agha Waqar Ahmad has gone on record by declaring: “This invention (extracting fuel from water) will solve our country’s energy crisis and provide jobs to hundreds of thousands.” Though his claim was ridiculed by all Pakistani scientists, Khan backed him saying: “I have investigated the matter and there is no fraud involved.”

Khan has reportedly endorsed a “holy man” living in Bhopal who claims to bless “true believers” with a touch, enabling them to be transported to any place in the world.

Mahmood is the former director of the enrichment division of the Pakistani Atomic Energy Commission, who, after retiring, had said that Pakistan had “acquired the capability to produce boosted thermonuclear weapons and hydrogen bombs.”

Thereafter, to raise funds for developing Taliban-held parts of Afghanistan, he founded the militant right wing Ummah Tameer-e-Nau that was banned and sanctioned by the US Government. But, he still travelled to Kandahar to meet Al-Qaeda’s Osama Bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Mahmood has also reportedly backed the sharing of nuclear technology with other Muslim countries to help promote worldwide Islamic dominance.

Khan, the Dutch-trained metallurgist and founder of the Kahuta Research Laboratories, is famous for stealing secrets of uranium-enrichment technology for Pakistan’s nuclear weapons project.

After he was exposed, Khan told German newsmagazine Der Spiegel: “I want to question the holier-than-thou attitudes of the Americans and the British. Are they God-appointed guardians of the world to stockpile hundreds of thousands of nuclear warheads and have they God-given authority to carry out explosions every month? If we start a modest programme, we are the Satans, the devils.” Critics of the Pakistani nuclear effort said focus on Khan helped divert attention from other key scientists who authorised the digging of tunnels in the Chagai hills where Pakistan tested its first generation of nuclear weapons.