Punjab Information Minister Fayyaz-ul-Hassan Chohan termed the Sharif family’s taking credit for the May 28, 1998 nuclear blasts as tantamount to following figments of their own imagination and said that had Pakistan’s atomic bomb been made at Ittefaq Foundry, the nation would have given the credit to Sharif Family.
Fayyaz-ul-Hassan Chohan said that in the eighties, when the whole nation was cultivating the entire atomic programme by paying heavy price on socio-economic front, Sharif family used to pay Rs 200 to Rs 500 in taxes.
Nawaz Sharif as prime minister of Pakistan was busy persuading the civil and military establishment against the nuclear blast and for financial transactions with the world powers, he added.
This has been acknowledged by Nawaz Sharif’s then Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub, and creator of atomic programme Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan in their writings and interviews.
The minister said that the PML-N leadership should be ashamed of taking credit for the nuclear blasts.
The credit for making Pakistan a nuclear power goes to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, General Zia-ul-Haq, Ishaq Khan and Dr Abdul Qadir and the entire Pakistani nation salutes these personalities for their efforts to make the country a nuclear power.
