Farhatullah Babar - Baber As Engineer

Baber As Engineer

After graduation from UET Peshawar in engineering, Babar joined the engineering staff of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) in 1970. He researched in the Directorate for Science Services (DSS) of PAEC and performed engineering tasks in projects relating the building construction of nuclear power plants in the country.

He also played an important political role in Pakistan's nuclear safety policy. He was a close friend of former PAEC Chairman Munir Ahmad Khan. He wrote numerous articles about History of Nuclear Pakistan, in which he paid a heavy tribute to Munir Ahmad Khan and dr. Ishfaq Ahmad. On late October 2001, when the nuclear scandal came in news which resulted in arrests of Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood and dr. Chaudhry Abdul Majeed. His efforts were involved not to interrogated the scientists too harshly where he met repeatedly with Army officials to make a way to release the detained scientists. On August 2007, Babar paid a visit to a families of dr. Chadhry Abdul Majeed and Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood in which he said:

"Dr. Majeed and Eng. Mahmood has been wronged by the government and a signal has been sent to the Pakistani scientist that they would have to defend themselves in any eventuality which becomes too hot to handle for the government."