The story of Dr. Abdul Samad Baloch

in hive-142013 •  4 hours ago 


The story of Dr. Abdul Samad Baloch, the youngest scientist at Cambridge University, who was told by a school principal in Karachi, "It would be better if you go to the village and help your father in the fields."
Residents of Balida, a remote village in the backward Kech district of Pakistan's Balochistan province, would never have imagined that the son of a middle-class landowner in their area would become a scientist working on space technology and head of his department at Cambridge University in the UK. Youngest Senior Research Scientist and Fellow
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Let's read the story of Dr. Abdul Samad in his own words

I belong to a region where education was not much practiced but there would be only a few people in the whole region who could read letters etc.
My father and mother had never seen school, but from childhood they wanted us to be educated. We are definitely landowners and the lands are also sufficient, but our lands do not have the production that should be there.
Therefore, I cannot describe what my mother used to do to fulfill my needs. Moreover, father remembered some of Iqbal's poems which he used to recite to me and my brothers all the time, which gave me courage.

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