QAU physics department: Twitterati reacts to misinterpreted NA resolution by Safdar

Joint Nobel Physics prize winner and Imperial College of London professor Abdus Salam, originally from Pakistan. PHOTO: FILE

Capt (retd) Safdar’s resolution in the National Assembly (NA) regarding the renaming of a physics department at the Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) caused confusion after it was misinterpreted by certain media outlets.

Users took to Twitter to express their feelings regarding the uncalled for change after some media outlets ran the news that the resolution passed called for a change to the name of Abdus Salam Center for Physics, however, the change was for the university’s physics department.

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Some users were of the impression that the ‘change’ is a massive insult to Salam while others clarified the misinterpretation.

The Lower House on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution for renaming the physics department of the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, naming it after Muslim scientist Abu al Fath Abdul Rehman Al-Khazini.

The resolution, moved by Capt (retd) Safdar, stated that it was necessary to make the world realise that the scientist was as brilliant as his teacher Abu Rayhan Al Biruni.

Interestingly, the government had itself moved to rename the National Centre for Physics by honouring Pakistan’s first Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam in December 2016.

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Capt (retd) Safdar had been leading a campaign to rename the Physics Department of the Quaid-i-Azam University. This department and NCP are two different entities 

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