"Why shouldn't Muslims have an atomic bomb?"

The US Central Intelligence Agency called him a more dangerous person than Osama bin Laden.

The Israeli spy agency Mossad formed a special team to kill him.

This man was Abdul Qadir Khan, the man whose life became a legend and who turned Pakistan into a nuclear power.

In 1974, India conducted its first nuclear test. Pakistan, however, did not just stand by and watch, but immediately got to work.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the country's prime minister at the time, said: "Even if we starve or chew grass, we will create our own nuclear weapons. Christians, Jews, and now Hindus have such weapons. Why shouldn't Muslims have them?"

These words were the beginning of the process.

In 1976, Pakistani physicist Abdul Qadir Khan, who was working on nuclear technology in the Netherlands, unexpectedly returned to his homeland and secretly established a laboratory producing enriched uranium.

The process was kept a complete secret for years. Even Benazir Bhutto was denied access to the Kahuta nuclear facility. The necessary equipment was allegedly imported through fake companies for a "textile factory."

By 1979, the secrets were revealed. The world was shocked. The Netherlands accused Abdulkadir of "espionage." The occupying Israel expressed strong protest.

However, Abdul Qadir Khan was not discouraged. He really wanted Pakistan to have its own nuclear weapons.

He lamented the colonialists who claimed world domination and their oppression of peoples.

"Do these scoundrels think they are the guardians of the world?" he would say.

Naturally, the Israelis were afraid that a Muslim country would have the bomb in its hands.

The US imposed sanctions on Pakistan. The Mossad carried out assassinations to undermine the program, even threatening to send box bombs to the executives of its European partner companies.

The Zionists also planned to strike Pakistani territory using F-16 and F-15 aircraft in cooperation with India.

After India tested nuclear warheads on May 11, 1998, Pakistan also successfully tested its own nuclear weapon in the Balochistan desert.

Thus, Pakistan became the world's seventh nuclear power, and Abdul Qadir Khan became a national hero for 250 million people.

Abdulkadir Khan, who firmly insisted that giving technology to a Muslim state was not a crime, passed away in 2021 at the age of 85.