Kahuta - Kahuta in Science

Kahuta in Science

Both nationally and internationally, Kahuta is famous for home to the Khan Research Laboratories, one of the largest government national research facility and laboratories. Since 1970s, Kahuta hosted an apex scientific research where atomic experiments were performed under guidance and supervision of Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan who served as the chief scientist. In 1984, Abdul Qadeer Khan and the scientists of the Kahuta Research Laboratories allegedly claimed to have conducted a putative nuclear cold-test of an atomic weapon, independently designed by KRL under codename Kahuta Test. However, the Pakistan Atomic Scientists Federation and the Government of Pakistan dismissed the claims made by KRL.