Nawaz Sharif orders university to name institution after the Nobel-winning physicist Abdus Salam,a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim communityPakistan’s prime minister has risked enraging devout hardliners by ordering one of the country’s top universities to honour a Nobel prize-winning physicist from a minority sect whose members are banned from describing themselves as Muslims.
In an announcement that surprised many, Nawaz Sharif said he had given approval to rename the National Centre for Physics at the capital’s Quaid-e-Azam University as the “Professor Abdus Salam Centre for Physics”. Related: Two Pakistani clerics fight at meeting over status of Ahmadi sect Related: Pakistan election: the 4m votes no one wants Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com