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Pervez Hoodbhoy
Pervez Hoodbhoy
	Hoodbhoy in October 2015
Born	11 July 1950 (age 74); Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Alma mater	Karachi Grammar School (1955–1968) ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; (B.S Mathematics) ; (B.S Electrical Engineering) ; (M.S Solid State Physics) ; (PhD Nuclear Physics)
Known for	Parton Physics, Hard Processes, Field theory and Particle Phenomenology
Awards	UNESCO Kalinga Prize (2003); Fulbright Award (1998); Faiz Ahmed Faiz Award (1990); Abdus Salam Award (1984); Baker Prize for Electronics(1968) ; Associate of ICTP ; "Book of the Year Award" by National Book council of Pakistan in 1993 ; ROCASA (2007) for enhancing the public understanding of Science by The World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy ; Joseph A. Burton Forum Award (2010) by American Physical Society ; Listed number 85 in Foreign Policy Magazine's list of Top 100 Global Thinkers
	Scientific career
Fields	Nuclear physics ; Quantum Chromodynamics
Institutions	Quaid-e-Azam University; FC College University; Virtual University of Pakistan

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Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy (Urdu: پرویز امِیرعلی ہودبھائی; Urdu pronunciation: [pərʋeːz əmiːɾəliː ɦuːd̪bʱaːiː]; born 11 July 1950) is a Pakistani nuclear physicist, author, media commentator, and social activist. He is generally considered one of the most vocal, progressive and liberal member of the Pakistani intelligentsia.^[2] Hoodbhoy is known for his opposition to nuclear weapons and vocal defence of secularism, freedom of speech, scientific temper and education in Pakistan.^[3]^[4] Some senior journalists, political and army figures have leveled accusations^[5] of treason and unbelief against him but he has rebutted them.^[6] Instead he regards himself as a global citizen.^[7] His physics-math course lectures, as well as on popular science topics, are widely watched and available online.^[8]^[9]

Hoodbhoy taught physics at Quaid-e-Azam University (formerly Islamabad University) from 1973 to 2020 but in between also taught sociology in addition to physics and math at FCCU^[10] and LUMS.^[11] He was visiting professor at several US universities and laboratories and is currently (2021–2025) adjunct professor physics at the University of New Brunswick.^{[citation needed]}

Since 1989 Hoodbhoy has headed Mashal Books in Lahore, a publishing house that claims to be a leading "translation effort to produce books in Urdu that promote modern thought, human rights, and emancipation of women". He initiated and co‐directed (1988–1990) the World Laboratory Project on Cosmology and High Energy Physics in Pakistan. Hoodbhoy is a sponsor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists^[12] a member of the Permanent Monitoring Panel on Planetary Emergencies of the World Federation of Scientists,^[13] and a member of the Asia Pacific Leaders Network.^[14] In 2021 he took the lead role in establishing The Black Hole, a community space in Islamabad for nurturing science, art, and culture. Hoodbhoy has written for Project Syndicate,^[15] DAWN,^[16] The New York Times,^[17] Washington Post,^[18] Prospect magazine,^[19] and The Express Tribune.^[20]

Awards for Hoodbhoy include the Abdus Salam Prize^[21] for Mathematics (1984); the Kalinga Prize for the popularization of science (2003); the TWAS-ROCASA prize;^[22] the Jean Meyer Award for global citizenship;^[23] the Joseph A. Burton Forum Award (2010) from the American Physical Society.^[24] In 2011, he was included in the list of 100 most influential global thinkers by Foreign Policy.^[25] From 2013 to 2017 he was a member of the UN Secretary General's advisory board on Disarmament.^[26] In 2019 he received the honorary doctorate of law from the University of British Columbia.^[27]

On 14 April 2001, the Pakistan government announced that Hoodbhoy had been selected for receiving the Sitara-i-Imtiaz from then-president, General Pervez Musharraf. However Hoodbhoy turned down the award on grounds that bureaucrats and non-scientists were not capable judging scientific work or deciding on scientific awards.^[28]

Early and personal life

Hoodbhoy was born and raised in Karachi, Sindh, in a family belonging to the Gujarati Khoja Ismaili Shia community.^[29] He later identified as a Humanist and became an official signatory of Humanist Manifesto III.^[30] He has one elder brother, and three sisters including infectious diseases specialist Dr. Naseem Salahuddin and reporter Nafisa Hoodbhoy. He has been married twice, first to Hajra Ahmed, niece of public intellectual and activist Eqbal Ahmad. Hoodbhoy and Hajra Ahmed have two daughters together, including Alia Amirali, a well-known feminist and political activist. They divorced in 2009 and Hoodbhoy later married Sadia Manzoor who is also, like him, a physics professor. They were married late in life and do not have children together.

Education

Hoodbhoy attended the Karachi Grammar School in Karachi for his initial schooling.^[31] After graduating, at the age of 19, Hoodbhoy went to the United States to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on a scholarship.^[32] During his undergraduate years he worked in restaurants, various odd jobs, and as a campus janitor to support his studies.

At MIT Hoodbhoy did a double major in Electric Engineering and Mathematics, and an MEng in Physics, with a concentration in solid-state physics in 1973. Immediately thereafter he joined Islamabad University (later called Quaid-e-Azam University) as a junior lecturer in October 1973 where he taught physics for two years but was also heavily involved in left-wing political work. After two years of teaching and activism he returned to MIT to work on various problems of nuclear structure theory under the supervision of Prof. John W. Negele. He was awarded a doctorate in nuclear physics in 1978 with a thesis titled, "Time Dependent Correlations in Nuclear Dynamics".^[33]

Career

Professional

Hoodbhoy's PhD research was in nuclear physics but much of his later work focused on the quark-gluon structure of nuclei, quantum chromodynamics, and particle phenomenology. In particular this included the spin structure of nuclei and quark-gluon components of the proton's spin as measured in various hard processes. He has also published papers seeking to link ADS/CFT and extra space-time dimensions with certain nuclear phenomena. His other works touch on quantum hydrodynamics, Berry phases, skyrmion physics, and quantum Hall phenomena.

In 1981 Hoodbhoy accepted an offer for post-doctoral research at the University of Washington. In 1986 he spent his sabbatical year as visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon University. While still a professor at the Quaid-e-Azam University, he made several visits as a guest scientist to the International Centre for Theoretical Physics and also held short-term visiting professorships at MIT and University of Maryland. In 2010, upon reaching mandatory retirement at age 60, he started teaching in Lahore but continued to voluntarily teach advanced physics topics at QAU until 2020. Presently (2021–2025) he holds the position of adjunct professor of physics at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.

From 2011 to 2013 Hoodbhoy was at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) as professor of physics during which period he made summer visits as a researcher to Princeton University while also writing opinion editorial columns for the Express Tribune, Dawn as well as other newspapers. The sudden termination of his contract became a matter of public controversy.^[34] He moved to the Forman Christian College-University (2013–2020) as distinguished professor of physics until his contract was abruptly cancelled as well after 8 years. Hoodbhoy contends that these terminations were due to extra-academic reasons.^[35]^[36]

Social Activism

Hoodbhoy points to Noam Chomsky, whose courses and lectures he had attended as an undergraduate at MIT, as a major influence upon his political philosophy. So also was the scholar-activist and public intellectual, Eqbal Ahmad, which whom he developed a life-long friendship.^[37] In the early 1970s Hoodbhoy worked actively with People's Labour Federation, a progressive trade union in Rawalpindi and was part of an independent Marxist group at Islamabad University headed by Professor Faheem Husain. With the advent of martial law in 1977 all union activity was banned and progressive activities forced underground.

Away from his specialized field of research, Hoodbhoy writes and speaks on a variety of topics and is a self-described liberal.^[38] New Scientist wrote that he was "Pakistan’s Voice of Reason"^[39] while Physics Today described him as fierce opponent of pseudoscience and a global citizen.^[40] He has sharply criticized efforts to merge religion with science; the politicization of Islam and growth of religious extremism; Pakistan's blasphemy law; military dictators and their surrogates in Pakistan; the subjugation of Pakistani women; the takeover of the educational process by religious forces; and opposed jihad for liberating Kashmir and fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan.

Provoked by General Zia-ul-Haq's extreme measures to create a new Islamic science, Hoodbhoy authored Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality with a preface by physics Nobel Laureate, Abdus Salam.^[41] This was subsequently translated into 8 languages. The book contends that the rise of Muslim science owed to Muslim openness in an earlier phase of Islam but subsequent closing of the Muslim mind led to the demise of all intellectual production.^[42] Hoodbhoy has continued to insist that attitudinal reasons, not paucity of resources, are responsible for the stagnation of the sciences in Islam.^[43] Salam and Hoodbhoy jointly authored an essay in 1984 that critiqued Eurocentric claims to developing science.^[44]

Salam, an Ahmadi, is reviled in Pakistan for his religious beliefs. In his defence, Hoodbhoy has taken to the media repeatedly.^[45] He also features prominently in the video documentary "Salam – the first ****** Nobel Laureate"^[46] and is among the notable signatories of the Humanist Manifesto.^[47]

In 1996 Hoodbhoy, together with his colleague A.H Nayyar, successfully stopped the sale of Quaid-e-Azam University's land to politicians and professors, invoking a strong counter-reaction.^[48] However, his subsequent attempts to preserve the land from politicians failed.^[49] He has been the leading critic of Pakistan's Higher Education Commission whose policies, he contends, have incentivized academic corruption^[50] and created a professor mafia.^[51]

Though I know that it is not welcome in my country and people who deviate from the notion that it is an Islamic state, are looked upon disapprovingly, I strongly feel that's what we need to head towards.

Talking to the Hyderabad Literary Festival

Pervez Hoodbhoy criticises Pakistani attitudes on blasphemy.

Anti-nuclear Activism

While at MIT Hoodbhoy studied under physicists such as Victor Weisskopf, Philip Morrison, and Bernard Feld from the 1940s Manhattan Project. Their influence helped turn him into becoming the leading voice against the development of nuclear weapons both by India and Pakistan.^[52] In 1996, at the behest of Dr. A.Q. Khan, his activism led to his name being placed on the Exit Control List.^[53] In 2013 he was the major contributor and editor of Confronting The Bomb – Pakistani And Indian Scientists Speak Out. He is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials, based at Princeton University.

Filmography

From 1991 to 2004 Hoodbhoy hosted and authored three major 13-part documentary series in Urdu on Pakistan Television on popular science and education. To date these have been the only science documentaries produced by PTV. In 2003 he was the recipient of UNESCO's 2003 Kalinga Prize for the popularization of science.

Following the nuclear tests of India and Pakistan, Hoodbhoy hosted and produced a 30-minute documentary "Pakistan and India Under the Nuclear Shadow" (2001). With help from Zia Mian, this was followed by a longer documentary on the Kashmir dispute in 2004. It has been the only documentary produced in Pakistan so far that considers the narratives of all three protagonists and is titled, "Crossing the Lines: Kashmir, Pakistan, India".^[54]

Publications

Books

Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future, published by Routledge (London, New York), 2023.
Confronting the Bomb – Pakistani and Indian Scientists Speak Out, (edited) Oxford University Press, 2013.
Education and the State – Fifty Years of Pakistan, (edited) Oxford University Press, 1998.
Islam & Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, published by ZED Books, London, in 1991 with translations in Turkish, Malaysian, Indonesian, Arabic, Spanish, Sindhi, and Urdu.
Proceedings of School on Fundamental Physics and Cosmology, co-edited with A. Ali, World Scientific, Singapore, 1991.

Scientific papers and articles

Hoodbhoy, Pervez (30 March 2006). "Two-photon effects in lepton-antilepton pair photoproduction from a nucleon target using real photons". Physical Review D. 73 (5): 054027. arXiv:hep-ph/0601182. Bibcode:2006PhRvD..73e4027H. doi:10.1103/physrevd.73.054027. ISSN 1550-7998. S2CID 15290218.
Hoodbhoy, Pervez; Ji, Xiangdong; Yuan, Feng (6 January 2004). "Probing Quark-Distribution Amplitudes through Generalized Parton Distributions at Large Momentum Transfer". Physical Review Letters. 92 (1): 012003. arXiv:hep-ph/0309085. Bibcode:2004PhRvL..92a2003H. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.92.012003. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 14753983. S2CID 5072354.
Hoodbhoy, Pervez (11 March 2002). "Explicit proof that electroproduction of transversely polarized mesons vanishes in perturbative QCD". Physical Review D. 65 (7). American Physical Society (APS): 077501. arXiv:hep-ph/0108214. Bibcode:2002PhRvD..65g7501H. doi:10.1103/physrevd.65.077501. ISSN 0556-2821. S2CID 17897431.
Hoodbhoy, Pervez; Ji, Xiangdong (12 November 1999). "Does the gluon spin contribute in a gauge-invariant way to nucleon spin?". Physical Review D. 60 (11). American Physical Society (APS): 114042. arXiv:hep-ph/9908275. Bibcode:1999PhRvD..60k4042H. doi:10.1103/physrevd.60.114042. ISSN 0556-2821. S2CID 7303675.
Hoodbhoy, Pervez (21 June 1999). "Nucleon-Quarkonium Elastic Scattering and the Gluon Contribution to Nucleon Spin". Physical Review Letters. 82 (25): 4985–4987. arXiv:hep-ph/9903312. Bibcode:1999PhRvL..82.4985H. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.82.4985. ISSN 0031-9007. S2CID 118954202.
Hoodbhoy, Pervez; Ji, Xiangdong; Lu, Wei (26 February 1999). "Implications of color gauge symmetry for nucleon spin structure". Physical Review D. 59 (7). American Physical Society (APS): 074010. arXiv:hep-ph/9808305. Bibcode:1999PhRvD..59g4010H. doi:10.1103/physrevd.59.074010. ISSN 0556-2821. S2CID 15840748.
Hoodbhoy, Pervez; Ji, Xiangdong; Lu, Wei (25 November 1998). "Quark orbital-angular-momentum distribution in the nucleon". Physical Review D. 59 (1). American Physical Society (APS): 014013. arXiv:hep-ph/9804337. Bibcode:1998PhRvD..59a4013H. doi:10.1103/physrevd.59.014013. ISSN 0556-2821. S2CID 7279810.
Hoodbhoy, Pervez; Ji, Xiangdong (29 July 1998). "Helicity-flip off-forward parton distributions of the nucleon". Physical Review D. 58 (5). American Physical Society (APS): 054006. arXiv:hep-ph/9801369. Bibcode:1998PhRvD..58e4006H. doi:10.1103/physrevd.58.054006. ISSN 0556-2821. S2CID 12396834.
Hoodbhoy, Pervez (1 July 1997). "Wave function corrections and off-forward gluon distributions in diffractive J/ψ electroproduction". Physical Review D. 56 (1). American Physical Society (APS): 388–393. arXiv:hep-ph/9703365. Bibcode:1997PhRvD..56..388H. doi:10.1103/physrevd.56.388. ISSN 0556-2821. S2CID 14223211.
Yusuf, Mohammad Ali; Hoodbhoy, Pervez (1 September 1996). "Relativistic and binding energy corrections to direct photon production in ϒ decay". Physical Review D. 54 (5). American Physical Society (APS): 3345–3349. arXiv:hep-ph/9608244. Bibcode:1996PhRvD..54.3345Y. doi:10.1103/physrevd.54.3345. ISSN 0556-2821. PMID 10021005. S2CID 16600178.
Khan, Hafsa; Hoodbhoy, Pervez (1996). "Beyond the colour-singlet model for inelastic J $\Psi$ photoproduction". Physics Letters B. 382 (1–2). Elsevier BV: 189–195. arXiv:hep-ph/9511360. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(96)00588-6. ISSN 0370-2693. S2CID 18979548.
Ji, Xiangdong; Tang, Jian; Hoodbhoy, Pervez (29 January 1996). "Spin Structure of the Nucleon in the Asymptotic Limit". Physical Review Letters. 76 (5): 740–743. arXiv:hep-ph/9510304. Bibcode:1996PhRvL..76..740J. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.76.740. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 10061538. S2CID 18799685.
Ali, Rafia; Hoodbhoy, Pervez (1 March 1995). "Novel approach to decays, gluon distributions, and fragmentation functions of heavy quarkonia". Physical Review D. 51 (5). American Physical Society (APS): 2302–2310. arXiv:hep-ph/9502350v1. Bibcode:1995PhRvD..51.2302A. doi:10.1103/physrevd.51.2302. ISSN 0556-2821. PMID 10018701. S2CID 10503189.
Nzar, Muhammad; Hoodbhoy, Pervez (1 January 1995). "Quark fragmentation functions in a diquark model for proton and Λ hyperon production". Physical Review D. 51 (1): 32–36. arXiv:hep-ph/9502349. Bibcode:1995PhRvD..51...32N. doi:10.1103/physrevd.51.32. ISSN 0556-2821. PMID 10018268. S2CID 14932833.
Khan, Hafsa; Hoodbhoy, Pervez (1 March 1996). "Systematic gauge-invariant approach to heavy quarkonium decays". Physical Review D. 53 (5). American Physical Society (APS): 2534–2540. arXiv:hep-ph/9501409. Bibcode:1996PhRvD..53.2534K. doi:10.1103/physrevd.53.2534. ISSN 0556-2821. PMID 10020249. S2CID 14496485.
Hoodbhoy, Pervez; Ji, Xiangdong (1 October 1994). "Twist-four distributions in a transversely polarized nucleon and the Drell-Yan process". Physical Review D. 50 (7). American Physical Society (APS): 4429–4435. arXiv:hep-ph/9307304. Bibcode:1994PhRvD..50.4429H. doi:10.1103/physrevd.50.4429. ISSN 0556-2821. PMID 10018081. S2CID 13071396.
Detecting Two-Photon Exchange Effects in Hard Scattering from Nucleon Targets, in Mathematical Physics: Proceedings of the 12th Regional Conference, Islamabad, Pakistan 27 March – 1 April 2006, World Scientific, Singapore, 2007. ISBN 978-981-270-591-4
Abdus Salam: Past and Present- The News (29 January 1996)
Generalized Parton Distributions, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad

Appearances in TV shows

Raaste Ilm ke (Pathways to Knowledge) on PTV, 1988
Asrar-e-Jahan (Mysteries of the Universe) on PTV, 1995
Bazm-e-Kainat (Gathering of all Creation) on PTV, 2003
Alif on Geo TV. Debate with Jawed Ghamidi, 2006
Aik Din Geo Kay Saath on Geo TV, February 2010
Capital Talk on Geo TV, 29 August 2012
Among the Believers (Netflix), 2015
Salam-The first Nobel laureate (Netflix) 2018

Notes

^ [1], Curriculum vitae of Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy
^ "Ram Mandir – an ill portent". 20 January 2024.
^ Notezai, Muhammad Akbar. "Interview: Pervez Hoodbhoy". thediplomat.com. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ "Calling Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy 'jahil' can only happen in Pakistan". The Express Tribune. 30 October 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ Story of Pervez Hoodbhoy - Episode 1 - Lt Gen (R) Amjad Shoaib, 7 February 2021, retrieved 6 December 2023
^ No, Gen. Shoaib, I'm Not A Traitor – Part One, 19 February 2021, retrieved 6 December 2023
^ "In Islamic Pakistan, physicist and global citizen Pervez Hoodbhoy takes advantage of a January media spotlight". pubs.aip.org. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ "Physics/Math Tutorials by Pervez Hoodbhoy – The Black Hole". Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ "Physics Math Tutorials".
^ "Physics". 13 February 2015. Archived from the original on 13 February 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ "LUMS SSE | VPDT". shoaworks.com. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ "BoS - Pervez Hoodbhoy". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies, 46th session [electronic resource] : the role of science in the third millennium..., "E. Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy, 19-24 August 2013 in SearchWorks catalog. ISBN 978-981-4623-44-5. Retrieved 6 December 2023. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
^ "Member (Pervez HOODBHOY) | Asia-Pacific Leadership Network". apln.network. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ "Pervez Hoodbhoy". Project Syndicate. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ "News stories for Pervez Hoodbhoy - DAWN.COM". Dawn. Pakistan. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ Hoodbhoy, Pervez (21 April 2015). "Opinion | Pakistan, the Saudis' Indispensable Nuclear Partner". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ Hoodbhoy, Pervez Amir Ali (30 December 2001). "How Islam Lost Its Way: Yesterday's Achievements Were Golden". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ "Pervez Hoodbhoy - Prospect Magazine". prospectmagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ "Pervez Hoodbhoy, Author at The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ "Abdus Salam Award". scientificlib.com. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ Sciences (TWAS), The World Academy of (17 December 2023). "TWAS Regional Awards". TWAS. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ "Mayer Award Recipients | Tufts Global Leadership". tuftsgloballeadership.org. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ "Prize Recipient". aps.org. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ Staff, F. P. (18 December 2023). "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ "Secretary-General Appoints Replacements for Outgoing Members of Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters | UN Press". press.un.org. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ "Pervez Hoodbhoy's Citation | Graduation at UBC". graduation.ubc.ca. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ "Deterrence will not always work". Frontline. 7 June 2002. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ Aakar Patel (7 January 2012). "Of Punjab's partition, castes & martial races". The Express Tribune.
^ "Humanism and Its Aspirations: Notable Signers". American Humanist Association. 26 August 2024. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
^ "Pervez". Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
^ "Pervez Hoodbhoy: Aik Din Geo Kay Sath". 28 December 2019 – via YouTube.
^ "CV of Pervez Hoodbhoy".
^ "Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy fired from LUMS". 30 October 2012.
^ "Hoodbhoy resigns from FC College after administration terms contract 'non-renewable'". The Express Tribune. 3 July 2020. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
^ Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy - Why I Resigned from Forman Christian College, 5 July 2020, retrieved 22 December 2023
^ Hoodbhoy, Pervez; Said, Edward W. "Confronting Empire". haymarketbooks.org. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
^ Notezai, Muhammad Akbar. "Interview: Pervez Hoodbhoy". thediplomat.com. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
^ "Interview: Pakistan's voice of reason".
^ "In Islamic Pakistan, physicist and global citizen Pervez Hoodbhoy takes advantage of a January media spotlight".
^ bloomsbury.com. "Islam and Science". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
^ Quarterly, Middle East; Pp. 69-74 (1 January 2010). "Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy: "Islam and Science Have Parted Ways"". Middle East Quarterly.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "Science and the Islamic world—The quest for rapprochement".
^ "Book Preface by Abdus Salam and Hoodbhoy" (PDF).
^ Hoodbhoy, Pervez (7 November 2020). "Salam's face blackened". Dawn. Pakistan. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
^ Kamalakar, Anand (6 January 2018), Salam - The First ****** Nobel Laureate (Documentary), retrieved 22 December 2023
^ "Notable Signers". 5 October 2012. Archived from the original on 5 October 2012. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
^ "A state and its death sentences". Himal Southasian. 1 July 1996. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
^ Hoodbhoy, Pervez (29 December 2018). "QAU's land is PTI's litmus test". Dawn. Pakistan. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
^ Hoodbhoy, Pervez (29 November 2014). "Misjudging universities". Dawn. Pakistan. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
^ Hoodbhoy, Pervez (1 July 2017). "Pakistan's professor mafia". Dawn. Pakistan. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
^ "Margolis Lecture - Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy". socsci.uci.edu. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
^ "A Hero's Meltdown".
^ "Margolis Lecture - Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy". socsci.uci.edu. Retrieved 22 December 2023.

External links

A complete repository of Pervez Hoodbhoy's articles in the making
Profile, QAU
Pervez Hoodbhoy's recent articles for Z Magazine
Pervez Hoodbhoy's articles for the website Chowk.com
Pervez Hoodbhoy's research papers
Science and the Islamic world—The quest for rapprochement, Pervez Hoodbhoy, American Institute of Physics, August 2007
Video Presentation: "Sacred Terror: Theirs and Ours." Professor Hoodbhoy speaking at the University of Illinois, October 2007.
Pakistan's westward drift – article by P Hoodbhoy lamenting the rising tide of militant Islam in Pakistan
Islamic Failure – 2002 article by P Hoodbhoy, first published in The Washington Post and reprinted in Prospect

[1] [1], Curriculum vitae of Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy

[2] "Ram Mandir – an ill portent". 20 January 2024.

[3] Notezai, Muhammad Akbar. "Interview: Pervez Hoodbhoy". thediplomat.com. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[4] "Calling Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy 'jahil' can only happen in Pakistan". The Express Tribune. 30 October 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[5] Story of Pervez Hoodbhoy - Episode 1 - Lt Gen (R) Amjad Shoaib, 7 February 2021, retrieved 6 December 2023

[6] No, Gen. Shoaib, I'm Not A Traitor – Part One, 19 February 2021, retrieved 6 December 2023

[7] "In Islamic Pakistan, physicist and global citizen Pervez Hoodbhoy takes advantage of a January media spotlight". pubs.aip.org. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[8] "Physics/Math Tutorials by Pervez Hoodbhoy – The Black Hole". Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[9] "Physics Math Tutorials".

[10] "Physics". 13 February 2015. Archived from the original on 13 February 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[11] "LUMS SSE | VPDT". shoaworks.com. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[12] "BoS - Pervez Hoodbhoy". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[13] International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies, 46th session [electronic resource] : the role of science in the third millennium..., "E. Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy, 19-24 August 2013 in SearchWorks catalog. ISBN 978-981-4623-44-5. Retrieved 6 December 2023. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)

[14] "Member (Pervez HOODBHOY) | Asia-Pacific Leadership Network". apln.network. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[15] "Pervez Hoodbhoy". Project Syndicate. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[16] "News stories for Pervez Hoodbhoy - DAWN.COM". Dawn. Pakistan. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[17] Hoodbhoy, Pervez (21 April 2015). "Opinion | Pakistan, the Saudis' Indispensable Nuclear Partner". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[18] Hoodbhoy, Pervez Amir Ali (30 December 2001). "How Islam Lost Its Way: Yesterday's Achievements Were Golden". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[19] "Pervez Hoodbhoy - Prospect Magazine". prospectmagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[20] "Pervez Hoodbhoy, Author at The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[21] "Abdus Salam Award". scientificlib.com. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[22] Sciences (TWAS), The World Academy of (17 December 2023). "TWAS Regional Awards". TWAS. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[23] "Mayer Award Recipients | Tufts Global Leadership". tuftsgloballeadership.org. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[24] "Prize Recipient". aps.org. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[25] Staff, F. P. (18 December 2023). "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[26] "Secretary-General Appoints Replacements for Outgoing Members of Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters | UN Press". press.un.org. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[27] "Pervez Hoodbhoy's Citation | Graduation at UBC". graduation.ubc.ca. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[28] "Deterrence will not always work". Frontline. 7 June 2002. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

[29] Aakar Patel (7 January 2012). "Of Punjab's partition, castes & martial races". The Express Tribune.

[30] "Humanism and Its Aspirations: Notable Signers". American Humanist Association. 26 August 2024. Retrieved 26 August 2024.

[31] "Pervez". Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2013.

[Geo_News-32] "Pervez Hoodbhoy: Aik Din Geo Kay Sath". 28 December 2019 – via YouTube.

[33] "CV of Pervez Hoodbhoy".

[34] "Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy fired from LUMS". 30 October 2012.

[35] "Hoodbhoy resigns from FC College after administration terms contract 'non-renewable'". The Express Tribune. 3 July 2020. Retrieved 22 December 2023.

[36] Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy - Why I Resigned from Forman Christian College, 5 July 2020, retrieved 22 December 2023

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 {{short description|Pakistani nuclear physicist and activist (born 1950)}}
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 {{Infobox scientist
-| name        = Pervez Hoodbhoy
+| name              = Pervez Hoodbhoy
-| image       = Hoodbhoy.jpg
+| image             = Hoodbhoy.jpg
-| caption     = Hoodbhoy in October 2015
+| caption           = Hoodbhoy in October 2015
-| birth_date  = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1950|07|11}}
+| birth_date        = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1950|07|11}}
-| birth_place = [[Karachi]], [[Sindh]], [[Pakistan]]
+| birth_place       = [[Karachi]], [[Sindh]], Pakistan
+| fields            = [[Nuclear physics]] <br /> [[Quantum Chromodynamics]]
-| nationality = [[Pakistani]]
+| workplaces        = [[Quaid-e-Azam University]]<br />[[Forman Christian College|FC College University]]<br />[[Virtual University of Pakistan]]
-| fields      = [[Nuclear physics]] <br /> [[Quantum Chromodynamics]]
+| alma_mater        = [[Karachi Grammar School]] (1955–1968) <br /> [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] <br />([[Bachelor of Science|B.S]] [[Mathematics]]) <br />(B.S [[Electrical Engineering]]) <br />([[Master of Science|M.S]] [[Solid State Physics]]) <br />([[PhD]] [[Nuclear Physics]])
-| workplaces  = [[Quaid-e-Azam University]]<br />[[National Center for Physics]]<br />[[Forman Christian College|FC College University]]<br />[[Virtual University of Pakistan]]
+| known_for         = [[Parton (particle physics)|Parton Physics]], Hard Processes, [[Field (physics)|Field theory]] and [[Phenomenology (physics)|Particle Phenomenology]]
-| alma_mater  = [[Karachi Grammar School]] (1955–1968) <br /> [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] <br />([[Bachelor of Science|B.S]] [[Mathematics]]) <br />(B.S [[Electrical Engineering]]) <br />([[Master of Science|M.S]] [[Solid State Physics]]) <br />([[Ph.D]] [[Nuclear Physics]])
+| awards            = [[Kalinga Prize|UNESCO Kalinga Prize]] (2003)<br />[[Fulbright Award]] (1998)<br />[[Faiz Ahmed Faiz|Faiz Ahmed Faiz Award]] (1990)<br />[[Abdus Salam Award]] (1984)<br /> Baker Prize for Electronics(1968) <br /> Associate of [[ICTP]] <br /> "Book of the Year Award" by National Book council of Pakistan in 1993 <br /> ROCASA (2007) for enhancing the public understanding of [[Science]] by [[The World Academy of Sciences]], [[Trieste]], [[Italy]] <br /> [[Joseph A. Burton Forum Award]] (2010) by [[American Physical Society]] <br /> Listed number 85 in [[Foreign Policy Magazine]]'s list of ''Top 100 Global Thinkers''<ref>[http://eacpe.org/app/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CV-Hoodbhoy.pdf], [[Curriculum vitae]] of Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy</ref>
-| known_for   = [[Parton distribution functions]], [[Field theory (mathematics)|Field Theory]], [[Phenomenology (particle physics)|Phenomenology]], [[supersymmetry]] and [[Abstract algebra]]
-| awards      = [[Kalinga Prize|UNESCO Kalinga Prize]] (2003)<br />[[Fulbright Award]] (1998)<br />[[Faiz Ahmed Faiz|Faiz Ahmed Faiz Award]] (1990)<br />[[Abdus Salam Award]] (1984)<br /> [[Bakers Award for Electronics]] (1968) <br /> Associate of [[ICTP]] <br /> "Book of the Year Award" by National Book council of Pakistan in 1993 <br /> [[ROCASA]] (2007) for enhancing the public understanding of [[Science]] by [[Academy of Sciences of the developing World]], [[Trieste]], [[Italy]] <br /> [[Joseph A. Burton Forum Award]] (2010) by [[American Physical Society]] <br /> Listed number 85 in [[Foreign Policy Magazine]]'s list of ''[[Top 100 Global Thinkers]]''<ref>[http://eacpe.org/app/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CV-Hoodbhoy.pdf], [[Curriculum vitae]] of Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy</ref>
 }}
-'''Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy''' ([[Urdu]]: پرویز امِیرعلی ہودبھائی; Urdu pronunciation: [[Help:IPA/Hindi and Urdu|[pərʋeːz əmiːɾəliː ɦuːd̪bʱaːiː]]]; born 11 July 1950) is a Pakistani [[nuclear physicist]], author, media commentator, and social activist. He is generally considered one of the most vocal, progressive and liberal members of the Pakistani [[intelligentsia]]. Hoodbhoy is known for his opposition to nuclear weapons and vocal defence of secularism, freedom of speech, scientific temper and education in Pakistan.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Notezai |first=Muhammad Akbar |title=Interview: Pervez Hoodbhoy |url=https://thediplomat.com/2015/11/interview-pervez-hoodbhoy/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=thediplomat.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-10-30 |title=Calling Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy 'jahil' can only happen in Pakistan |url=https://tribune.com.pk/article/19373/calling-dr-pervez-hoodbhoy-jahil-can-only-happen-in-pakistan |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=The Express Tribune |language=en}}</ref> Some senior journalists, political and army figures have leveled accusations<ref>{{Citation |title=Story of Pervez Hoodbhoy - Episode 1 - Lt Gen (R) Amjad Shoaib |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92flAUwA5Yo |access-date=2023-12-06 |language=en}}</ref> of treason and unbelief against him but he has rebutted them.<ref>{{Citation |title=No, Gen. Shoaib, I'm Not A Traitor – Part One |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjFVPDbYSwY |access-date=2023-12-06 |language=en}}</ref> Instead he regards himself as a global citizen.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/online/11807/In-Islamic-Pakistan-physicist-and-global-citizen |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=pubs.aip.org}}</ref> His physics-math course lectures, as well as on popular science topics, are widely watched available online.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Physics/Math Tutorials by Pervez Hoodbhoy – The Black Hole |url=https://theblackhole.pk/physics-math-tutorials/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |language=en-US}}</ref> His physics-math course lectures, as well as on popular science topics, are widely watched available online.<sup>[v]</sup>
+'''Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy''' ([[Urdu]]: پرویز امِیرعلی ہودبھائی; Urdu pronunciation: [[Help:IPA/Hindi and Urdu|[pərʋeːz əmiːɾəliː ɦuːd̪bʱaːiː]]]; born 11 July 1950) is a Pakistani [[nuclear physicist]], author, media commentator, and social activist. He is generally considered one of the most vocal, progressive and liberal member of the Pakistani [[intelligentsia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1807273/ram-mandir-an-ill-portent|title=Ram Mandir – an ill portent|date=20 January 2024 }}</ref> Hoodbhoy is known for his opposition to nuclear weapons and vocal defence of secularism, freedom of speech, scientific temper and education in Pakistan.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Notezai |first=Muhammad Akbar |title=Interview: Pervez Hoodbhoy |url=https://thediplomat.com/2015/11/interview-pervez-hoodbhoy/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=thediplomat.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-10-30 |title=Calling Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy 'jahil' can only happen in Pakistan |url=https://tribune.com.pk/article/19373/calling-dr-pervez-hoodbhoy-jahil-can-only-happen-in-pakistan |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=The Express Tribune}}</ref> Some senior journalists, political and army figures have leveled accusations<ref>{{Citation |title=Story of Pervez Hoodbhoy - Episode 1 - Lt Gen (R) Amjad Shoaib | date=7 February 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92flAUwA5Yo |access-date=2023-12-06}}</ref> of treason and unbelief against him but he has rebutted them.<ref>{{Citation |title=No, Gen. Shoaib, I'm Not A Traitor – Part One | date=19 February 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjFVPDbYSwY |access-date=2023-12-06}}</ref> Instead he regards himself as a global citizen.<ref>{{Cite web |title=In Islamic Pakistan, physicist and global citizen Pervez Hoodbhoy takes advantage of a January media spotlight |url=https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/online/11807/In-Islamic-Pakistan-physicist-and-global-citizen |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=pubs.aip.org}}</ref> His physics-math course lectures, as well as on popular science topics, are widely watched and available online.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Physics/Math Tutorials by Pervez Hoodbhoy – The Black Hole |url=https://theblackhole.pk/physics-math-tutorials/ |access-date=2023-12-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Physics Math Tutorials |url=https://theblackhole.pk/physics-math-tutorials}}</ref>
-Hoodbhoy taught physics at Quaid-e-Azam University (formerly Islamabad University) from 1973 to 2020 but in between also taught sociology in addition to physics and math<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-02-13 |title=Physics |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213065536/http:/www.fccollege.edu.pk/faculty-directory/university-faculty/physics |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=web.archive.org}}</ref> in Lahore as well as LUMS.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LUMS SSE {{!}} VPDT |url=http://www.shoaworks.com/images/websites/sse/vpdt.htm |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=www.shoaworks.com}}</ref> He was visiting professor at several US universities and laboratories and is currently (2021-2025) adjunct professor physics at the University of New Brunswick.
+Hoodbhoy taught physics at Quaid-e-Azam University (formerly Islamabad University) from 1973 to 2020 but in between also taught sociology in addition to physics and math at [[Forman Christian College|FCCU]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-02-13 |title=Physics |url=http://www.fccollege.edu.pk/faculty-directory/university-faculty/physics |access-date=2023-12-06 |archive-date=13 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213065536/http://www.fccollege.edu.pk/faculty-directory/university-faculty/physics |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[Lahore University of Management Sciences|LUMS]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=LUMS SSE {{!}} VPDT |url=http://www.shoaworks.com/images/websites/sse/vpdt.htm |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=shoaworks.com}}</ref> He was visiting professor at several US universities and laboratories and is currently (2021–2025) adjunct professor physics at the University of New Brunswick.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
-Since 1989 Hoodbhoy has headed [https://mashalbooks.org Mashal Books] in Lahore, a publishing house that claims to be a leading "translation effort to produce books in Urdu that promote modern thought, human rights, and emancipation of women". He initiated and co‐directed (1988-1990) the World Laboratory Project on Cosmology and High Energy Physics in Pakistan. Hoodbhoy is a sponsor of the [[Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=BoS - Pervez Hoodbhoy |url=https://thebulletin.org/about-us/leadership/pervez-hoodbhoy/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists |language=en-US}}</ref> a member of the Permanent Monitoring Panel on Planetary Emergencies of the World Federation of Scientists,<ref>{{Cite web |title=International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies, 46th session [electronic resource] : the role of science in the third millennium..., "E. Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy, 19-24 August 2013 in SearchWorks catalog |url=https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/10627203 |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=searchworks.stanford.edu |language=en}}</ref> and a member of the Asia Pacific Leaders Network.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Member (Pervez HOODBHOY) {{!}} Asia-Pacific Leadership Network |url=https://www.apln.network/members/pakistan/pervez-hoodbhoy/bio |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=www.apln.network}}</ref> In 2021 he took the lead role in establishing [https://theblackhole.pk The Black Hole], a community space in Islamabad for nurturing science, art, and culture. Hoodbhoy has written for ''[[Project Syndicate]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pervez Hoodbhoy |url=https://www.project-syndicate.org/columnist/pervez-hoodbhoy |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Project Syndicate |language=en}}</ref> <sup> </sup>''[[DAWN (newspaper)|DAWN]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=News stories for Pervez Hoodbhoy - DAWN.COM |url=https://www.dawn.com/authors/2286/pervez-hoodbhoy |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=www.dawn.com |language=en}}</ref> ''The New York Times'',<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hoodbhoy |first=Pervez |date=2015-04-21 |title=Opinion {{!}} Pakistan, the Saudis’ Indispensable Nuclear Partner |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/22/opinion/toward-a-saudi-pakistani-rift.html |access-date=2023-12-06 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Washington Post,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hoodbhoy |first=Pervez Amir Ali |date=2001-12-30 |title=How Islam Lost Its Way: Yesterday's Achievements Were Golden |language=en-US |work=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2001/12/30/how-islam-lost-its-way-yesterdays-achievements-were-golden/d325ce2a-146f-4791-b5e7-8e662d991cbb/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Prospect magazine,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pervez Hoodbhoy - Prospect Magazine |url=https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/author/419/pervez-hoodbhoy |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=www.prospectmagazine.co.uk |language=en}}</ref> and ''[[The Express Tribune]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pervez Hoodbhoy, Author at The Express Tribune |url=https://tribune.com.pk/author/1074/pervez-hoodbhoy |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=The Express Tribune |language=en}}</ref>
+Since 1989 Hoodbhoy has headed [https://mashalbooks.org Mashal Books] in Lahore, a publishing house that claims to be a leading "translation effort to produce books in Urdu that promote modern thought, human rights, and emancipation of women". He initiated and co‐directed (1988–1990) the World Laboratory Project on Cosmology and High Energy Physics in Pakistan. Hoodbhoy is a sponsor of the [[Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=BoS - Pervez Hoodbhoy |url=https://thebulletin.org/about-us/leadership/pervez-hoodbhoy/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists}}</ref> a member of the Permanent Monitoring Panel on Planetary Emergencies of the World Federation of Scientists,<ref>{{Cite book |title=International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies, 46th session [electronic resource] : the role of science in the third millennium..., "E. Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy, 19-24 August 2013 in SearchWorks catalog |url=https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/10627203 |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=searchworks.stanford.edu|isbn=978-981-4623-44-5 }}</ref> and a member of the Asia Pacific Leaders Network.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Member (Pervez HOODBHOY) {{!}} Asia-Pacific Leadership Network |url=https://www.apln.network/members/pakistan/pervez-hoodbhoy/bio |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=apln.network}}</ref> In 2021 he took the lead role in establishing [[The Black Hole (community center)|The Black Hole]], a community space in Islamabad for nurturing science, art, and culture. Hoodbhoy has written for [[Project Syndicate]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pervez Hoodbhoy |url=https://www.project-syndicate.org/columnist/pervez-hoodbhoy |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Project Syndicate}}</ref> [[DAWN (newspaper)|DAWN]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=News stories for Pervez Hoodbhoy - DAWN.COM |url=https://www.dawn.com/authors/2286/pervez-hoodbhoy |access-date=2023-12-06 |work=Dawn|location=Pakistan}}</ref> [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/opinion/16iht-edhood.1.9260885.html The New York Times],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hoodbhoy |first=Pervez |date=2015-04-21 |title=Opinion {{!}} Pakistan, the Saudis' Indispensable Nuclear Partner|work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/22/opinion/toward-a-saudi-pakistani-rift.html |access-date=2023-12-06 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2001/12/30/how-islam-lost-its-way-yesterdays-achievements-were-golden/d325ce2a-146f-4791-b5e7-8e662d991cbb Washington Post],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hoodbhoy |first=Pervez Amir Ali |date=2001-12-30 |title=How Islam Lost Its Way: Yesterday's Achievements Were Golden|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2001/12/30/how-islam-lost-its-way-yesterdays-achievements-were-golden/d325ce2a-146f-4791-b5e7-8e662d991cbb/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Prospect magazine,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pervez Hoodbhoy - Prospect Magazine |url=https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/author/419/pervez-hoodbhoy |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=prospectmagazine.co.uk}}</ref> and [[The Express Tribune]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pervez Hoodbhoy, Author at The Express Tribune |url=https://tribune.com.pk/author/1074/pervez-hoodbhoy |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=The Express Tribune}}</ref>
-Awards for Hoodbhoy include the [[Abdus Salam]] [[Abdus Salam Award|Prize]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Abdus Salam Award |url=https://www.scientificlib.com/en/Physics/Info/AbdusSalamAward.html |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=www.scientificlib.com}}</ref> for Mathematics (1984); the [[Kalinga Prize]] for the popularization of science (2003);<ref>{{Citation |title=Pervez Hoodbhoy |date=2023-10-30 |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Pervez_Hoodbhoy&oldid=1182574658 |work=Wikipedia |access-date=2023-12-06 |language=en}}</ref> the TWAS-ROCASA prize;<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sciences (TWAS) |first=The World Academy of |date=2023-12-17 |title=TWAS Regional Awards |url=https://twas.org/opportunity/twas-regional-awards |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=TWAS |language=en}}</ref> the Jean Meyer Award for global citizenship;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mayer Award Recipients {{!}} Tufts Global Leadership |url=https://www.tuftsgloballeadership.org/mayer-award-recipients?category=135 |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=www.tuftsgloballeadership.org}}</ref> the [[Joseph A. Burton Forum Award]] (2010) from the [[American Physical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Prize Recipient |url=http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=www.aps.org |language=en}}</ref> In 2011, he was included in the list of 100 most influential global thinkers by ''[[Foreign Policy]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=F. P. |date=2023-12-18 |title=The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/11/28/the-fp-top-100-global-thinkers-3/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Foreign Policy |language=en-US}}</ref> From 2013 to 2017 he was a member of the UN Secretary General's advisory board on Disarmament.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Secretary-General Appoints Replacements for Outgoing Members of Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters {{!}} UN Press |url=https://press.un.org/en/2012/dc3407.doc.htm |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=press.un.org}}</ref> In 2019 he received the honorary doctorate of law from the University of British Columbia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pervez Hoodbhoy’s Citation {{!}} Graduation at UBC |url=https://graduation.ubc.ca/event/honorary-degrees/2019-honorary-degree-recipients/pervez-hoodbhoys-citation/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=graduation.ubc.ca}}</ref>
+Awards for Hoodbhoy include the [[Abdus Salam]] [[Abdus Salam Award|Prize]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Abdus Salam Award |url=https://www.scientificlib.com/en/Physics/Info/AbdusSalamAward.html |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=scientificlib.com}}</ref> for Mathematics (1984); the [[Kalinga Prize]] for the popularization of science (2003); the TWAS-ROCASA prize;<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sciences (TWAS) |first=The World Academy of |date=2023-12-17 |title=TWAS Regional Awards |url=https://twas.org/opportunity/twas-regional-awards |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=TWAS}}</ref> the Jean Meyer Award for global citizenship;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mayer Award Recipients {{!}} Tufts Global Leadership |url=https://www.tuftsgloballeadership.org/mayer-award-recipients?category=135 |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=tuftsgloballeadership.org}}</ref> the [[Joseph A. Burton Forum Award]] (2010) from the [[American Physical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Prize Recipient |url=http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=aps.org}}</ref> In 2011, he was included in the list of 100 most influential global thinkers by [[Foreign Policy]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=F. P. |date=2023-12-18 |title=The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/11/28/the-fp-top-100-global-thinkers-3/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Foreign Policy}}</ref> From 2013 to 2017 he was a member of the UN Secretary General's advisory board on Disarmament.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Secretary-General Appoints Replacements for Outgoing Members of Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters {{!}} UN Press |url=https://press.un.org/en/2012/dc3407.doc.htm |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=press.un.org}}</ref> In 2019 he received the honorary doctorate of law from the University of British Columbia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pervez Hoodbhoy's Citation {{!}} Graduation at UBC |url=https://graduation.ubc.ca/event/honorary-degrees/2019-honorary-degree-recipients/pervez-hoodbhoys-citation/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=graduation.ubc.ca}}</ref>
-On 14 April 2001, the Pakistan government announced that Hoodbhoy had been selected for receiving the [[Sitara-e-Imtiaz|Sitara-i-Imtiaz]] from then-[[President of Pakistan|president]], General [[Pervez Musharraf]]. However Hoodbhoy turned down the award on grounds that bureaucrats and non-scientists were not capable of judging scientific work or deciding on scientific awards.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2002-06-07 |title='Deterrence will not always work' |url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/article30245176.ece |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Frontline |language=en}}</ref>
+On 14 April 2001, the Pakistan government announced that Hoodbhoy had been selected for receiving the [[Sitara-e-Imtiaz|Sitara-i-Imtiaz]] from then-[[President of Pakistan|president]], General [[Pervez Musharraf]]. However Hoodbhoy turned down the award on grounds that bureaucrats and non-scientists were not capable judging scientific work or deciding on scientific awards.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2002-06-07 |title=Deterrence will not always work |url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/article30245176.ece |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Frontline}}</ref>
 ==Early and personal life==
-Hoodbhoy was born and raised in Karachi in a family belonging to the [[Ismaili Shia]] community. He has one elder brother, and three sisters including infectious diseases specialist Dr. Naseem Salahuddin and reporter Nafisa Hoodbhoy. He has been married twice, first to Hajra Ahmed, niece of public intellectual and activist [[Eqbal Ahmad]]. Hoodbhoy and Hajra Ahmed have two daughters together, including [[Alia Amirali]], a well-known feminist and political activist. They divorced in 2009 and Hoodbhoy later married Sadia Manzoor who is also, like him, a physics professor. They were married late in life and do not have children together.
+Hoodbhoy was born and raised in [[Karachi]], [[Sindh]], in a family belonging to the [[Gujarati people|Gujarati]] [[Khoja]] [[Ismaili Shia]] community.<ref>{{cite web |author1=[[Aakar Patel]] |title=Of Punjab's partition, castes & martial races |url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/318092/of-punjab%E2%80%99s-partition-castes-martial-races |website=[[The Express Tribune]] |language=en |date=7 January 2012}}</ref> He later identified as a Humanist and became an official signatory of [[Humanism and Its Aspirations|Humanist Manifesto III]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-26 |title=Humanism and Its Aspirations: Notable Signers |url=https://americanhumanist.org/what-is-humanism/manifesto3/signers/ |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=American Humanist Association |language=en-US}}</ref> He has one elder brother, and three sisters including infectious diseases specialist Dr. Naseem Salahuddin and reporter Nafisa Hoodbhoy. He has been married twice, first to Hajra Ahmed, niece of public intellectual and activist [[Eqbal Ahmad]]. Hoodbhoy and Hajra Ahmed have two daughters together, including [[Alia Amirali]], a well-known feminist and political activist. They divorced in 2009 and Hoodbhoy later married Sadia Manzoor who is also, like him, a physics professor. They were married late in life and do not have children together.
 ==Education==
-Hoodbhoy attended the [[Karachi Grammar School]] in Karachi for his initial schooling.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://old.drsohail.com/Articals/Pervezhoodbhoy.htm |title=Pervez |access-date=2013-12-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120716211940/http://old.drsohail.com/Articals/Pervezhoodbhoy.htm |archive-date=16 July 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> After graduating, at the age of 19, Hoodbhoy went to the United States to attend the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) on a scholarship.<ref name="Geo News">{{cite episode| title =A Day with Geo: Interview with Pervez Hoodbhoy| url =https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmzoYZjFEJE| network =Geo News| location =Islamabad| airdate =28 April 2011| minutes =30:00}}</ref> While attending [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], Hoodbhoy worked for a local [[Pakistani cuisine|Pakistani restaurant]] based in [[Massachusetts]] to support his studies and showed a great interest in [[Electronic engineering|electronics]] and mathematics.<ref>http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2012/08/interview-dr-pervez-hoodbhoy/ {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref>
+Hoodbhoy attended the [[Karachi Grammar School]] in Karachi for his initial schooling.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://old.drsohail.com/Articals/Pervezhoodbhoy.htm |title=Pervez |access-date=2013-12-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120716211940/http://old.drsohail.com/Articals/Pervezhoodbhoy.htm |archive-date=16 July 2012 }}</ref> After graduating, at the age of 19, Hoodbhoy went to the United States to attend the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) on a scholarship.<ref name="Geo News">{{Cite web |title=Pervez Hoodbhoy: Aik Din Geo Kay Sath | date=28 December 2019 | via=[[YouTube]] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpO7cfP6PhU}}</ref> During his undergraduate years he worked in restaurants, various odd jobs, and as a campus janitor to support his studies.
+At MIT Hoodbhoy did a double major in Electric Engineering and Mathematics, and an MEng in Physics, with a concentration in solid-state physics in 1973. Immediately thereafter he joined Islamabad University (later called [[Quaid-e-Azam University]]) as a junior lecturer in October 1973 where he taught physics for two years but was also heavily involved in left-wing political work. After two years of teaching and activism he returned to MIT to work on various problems of nuclear structure theory under the supervision of Prof. John W. Negele. He was awarded a doctorate in [[nuclear physics]] in 1978 with a thesis titled, "Time Dependent Correlations in Nuclear Dynamics".<ref>{{Cite web |title=CV of Pervez Hoodbhoy |url=https://eacpe.org/about-pervez-hoodbhoy}}</ref>
-At [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], Hoodbhoy graduated with [[double major|a double]] BSc in [[Electrical Engineering]] and Mathematics in 1971, followed by an MSc in [[physics]] with a concentration in [[solid-state physics]] in 1973.<ref name="Global Zero">{{Cite web|title =Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy | work =Global Zero | publisher=Global Zero | url =http://www.globalzero.org/en/who/pervez-hoodbhoy | access-date =January 1, 2011}}</ref> After graduation, Hoodbhoy joined the [[Quaid-e-Azam University]] (QAU) as a researcher and renewed his scholarship to resume his studies in the United States.<ref name="Geo TV" />
-Hoodbhoy continued his research in doctoral studies in [[physics]] at  [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], and was awarded a PhD in [[nuclear physics]] in 1978.<ref name="Geo TV"/> In the United States, his collaboration took place with the [[:Category:Manhattan Project people|scientists]] who participated in the [[Manhattan Project]] in the 1940s, which set of experiences subsequently influenced in his philosophy.<ref name="Geo TV">{{Cite video
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-</ref> Hoodbhoy remained a post-doctoral research fellow at the [[University of Washington]] for a short time.<ref name="Global Zero"/> In 1973, Hoodbhoy joined the [[Pakistan Institute of Physics|Institute of Physics]] of the [[University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore|University of Engineering and Technology]] in [[Lahore]].<ref name="Global Zero"/>
 ==Career==
-=== Academia ===
+=== Professional ===
+Hoodbhoy's PhD research was in nuclear physics but much of his later work focused on the quark-gluon structure of nuclei, quantum chromodynamics, and particle phenomenology. In particular this included the spin structure of nuclei and quark-gluon components of the proton's spin as measured in various hard processes. He has also published papers seeking to link ADS/CFT and extra space-time dimensions with certain nuclear phenomena. His other works touch on quantum hydrodynamics, Berry phases, skyrmion physics, and quantum Hall phenomena.
-Hoodbhoy focused his research career extensively on [[quantum field theory]], [[Phenomenology (particle physics)|particle phenomenology]], and [[supersymmetry]] in the area of [[particle physics]].<ref name="Global Zero"/> After receiving his PhD from [[MIT]], Hoodbhoy met [[Riazuddin (physicist)|Riazuddin]] and [[Abdus Salam]]– the prominent Pakistani physicists who were visiting [[MIT]] to give lectures on particle physics. Subsequently, he joined a group of Pakistani physicists at the [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]] in [[Trieste, Italy|Trieste]], Italy.<ref name="Hoodbhoy"/> At [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics|ICTP]], Hoodbhoy collaborated with Pakistan's leading theoretical physicists who worked under [[Abdus Salam]] in the 1970s.<ref name="Hoodbhoy">{{Cite web | last =Hoodbhoy | first =Pervez | title =Fascinating encounters: Prof Abdus Salam | publisher =Hoodbhoy | url =http://www.globalwebpost.com/farooqm/study_res/abdus_salam/encounter.html | access-date =January 1, 2011 | url-status =dead | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20150924022536/http://www.globalwebpost.com/farooqm/study_res/abdus_salam/encounter.html | archive-date =24 September 2015 | df =dmy-all }}</ref>
+In 1981 Hoodbhoy accepted an offer for [[Postdoctoral researcher|post-doctoral]] research at the [[University of Washington]]. In 1986 he spent his sabbatical year as [[Visiting scholar|visiting professor]] at [[Carnegie Mellon University]]. While still a professor at the [[Quaid-e-Azam University]], he made several visits as a guest scientist to the [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]] and also held short-term visiting professorships at MIT and University of Maryland. In 2010, upon reaching mandatory retirement at age 60, he started teaching in Lahore but continued to voluntarily teach advanced physics topics at QAU until 2020. Presently (2021–2025) he holds the position of adjunct professor of physics at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.
-After [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics|ICTP]] work, Hoodbhoy returned to Pakistan to join [[Quaid-e-Azam University]] (QAU) where he began teaching and lecturing on physics. Eventually, he became chairman of the [[Institute of Theoretical Physics, Qau|Institute of Theoretical Physics]] (now the Department of Physics). After spending more than 30 years at [[Quaid-e-Azam University|QAU]], Hoodbhoy moved to [[Lahore]] where he joined the [[Lahore University of Management Sciences]] as a visiting professor, while remaining a visiting scientist at the [[Stanford Linear Accelerator Center]].<ref name="Global Zero"/> Controversy over his contract at [[Lahore University of Management Sciences|LUMS]] sparked an academic debate when it was reported in the [[Pakistani media|news media]] that Hoodbhoy's email to the [[Vice-Chancellor]] of [[Lahore University of Management Sciences|LUMS]] was made public.<ref name="Express Tribune, 2012">{{cite news|last1=Shaukat|first1=Aroosa|title=LUMS vs Hoodbhoy: I'm losing job for 'ideological reasons', says professor|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/456391/lums-vs-hoodbhoy-im-losing-job-for-ideological-reasons-says-professor/|access-date=16 February 2015|agency=Express Tribune|publisher=Express Tribune, 2012|date=25 October 2012}}</ref><ref name="Express Tribune">{{cite news|last1=Haider|first1=Ejaz|title=The Pervez Hoodbhoy-LUMS dispute|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/458332/the-pervez-hoodbhoy-lums-dispute/|access-date=16 February 2015|agency=Express Tribune|newspaper=Express Tribune|date=30 October 2012}}</ref> Eventually, Hoodbhoy moved to [[Forman Christian College University]] permanently and joined the senior staff to instruct courses on physics.<ref name="Forman College University Press">{{cite web |last1=FCC University |title=Faculty of Physics at FCC University |url=http://www.fccollege.edu.pk/faculty-directory/university-faculty/physics |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213065536/http://www.fccollege.edu.pk/faculty-directory/university-faculty/physics |archive-date=13 February 2015 |access-date=13 February 2015 |website=fccollege.edu.pk |publisher=Forman College University Press}}</ref>
+From 2011 to 2013 Hoodbhoy was at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) as professor of physics during which period he made summer visits as a researcher to [[Princeton University]] while also writing opinion editorial columns for the [[Express Tribune]], [https://www.dawn.com/authors/2286/pervez-hoodbhoy Dawn] as well as other newspapers. The sudden termination of his contract became a matter of public controversy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy fired from LUMS |date=30 October 2012 |url=https://globalvoices.org/2012/10/30/pakistan-dr-pervez-hoodbhoy-fired-from-lums}}</ref> He moved to the Forman Christian College-University (2013–2020) as distinguished professor of physics until his contract was abruptly cancelled as well after 8 years. Hoodbhoy contends that these terminations were due to extra-academic reasons.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-07-03 |title=Hoodbhoy resigns from FC College after administration terms contract 'non-renewable' |url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/2253195/hoodbhoy-resigns-from-fc-college-after-administration-terms-contract-non-renewable |access-date=2023-12-22 |website=The Express Tribune}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy - Why I Resigned from Forman Christian College | date=5 July 2020 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_qp-9HvNVI |access-date=2023-12-22}}</ref>
-Prior to his return to Pakistan in 1976, Hoodbhoy was aware of the country's secretive development program on [[Pakistan and its Nuclear Deterrent Program|nuclear deterrence]] .<ref name="Newsweek, 2013">{{cite news|last1=Hoodbhoy|first1=Pervez|title=The Man Who Designed Pakistan's Bomb|url=http://newsweekpakistan.com/|access-date=13 February 2015|work=Special biographical article in the honor of Dr. Riazuddin|agency=Newsweek|publisher=Newsweek, 2013|date=30 November 2013|archive-url=http://newsweekpakistan.com/the-man-who-designed-pakistans-bomb/.|archive-date=30 November 2013|location=Islamabad, Pakistan|pages=5}}</ref> Hoodbhoy maintains his close ties with Pakistan's vibrant [[Pakistan Nuclear Society|nuclear society]], and had collaborated with many of country's leading theoretical physicists throughout his career, mainly with [[Ishfaq Ahmad]].<ref name="Newsweek, 2013"/> On several occasions, Hoodbhoy staunchly countered Dr. [[Abdul Qadeer Khan]]'s "father-of" claims, and roundly criticized his academic research on [[nuclear physics]].<ref name="Stanford University Press">{{cite book|last1=Khan|first1=Feroz Hassan|title=Eating grass : the making of the Pakistani bomb|date=2012|publisher=Stanford University Press|location=Stanford, Calif.|isbn=978-0804776004}}</ref> In the 1980s, he famously debated with [[Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood|Bashiruddin Mahmood]] on the topics of [[sunspots]], [[Life After Death|life-after-death]], and philosophy.<ref name="Free Press.">Bergen, Peter L. (2011). "§Quixotic Quest". The longest war : the enduring conflict between America and al-Qaeda (1st Free Press trade paperback edition) New York: Free Press. {{ISBN|0743278941}}.</ref>
+=== Social Activism ===
-In 1999, Hoodbhoy with [[Ishfaq Ahmad]] and Riazuddin, played a major and influential role in the establishment of the [[National Center for Physics]] (NCP), becoming one of the earliest academics and scientists to join the NCP at its inception.
+Hoodbhoy points to [[Noam Chomsky]], whose courses and lectures he had attended as an undergraduate at MIT, as a major influence upon his political philosophy. So also was the scholar-activist and public intellectual, Eqbal Ahmad, which whom he developed a life-long friendship.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Hoodbhoy |first1=Pervez |last2=Said |first2=Edward W. |title=Confronting Empire |url=https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/970-confronting-empire |access-date=2023-12-22 |website=haymarketbooks.org}}</ref> In the early 1970s Hoodbhoy worked actively with People's Labour Federation, a progressive trade union in Rawalpindi and was part of an independent Marxist group at Islamabad University headed by Professor [[Faheem Hussain|Faheem Husain]]. With the advent of martial law in 1977 all union activity was banned and progressive activities forced underground.
+Away from his specialized field of research, Hoodbhoy writes and speaks on a variety of topics and is a self-described liberal.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Notezai |first=Muhammad Akbar |title=Interview: Pervez Hoodbhoy |url=https://thediplomat.com/2015/11/interview-pervez-hoodbhoy/ |access-date=2023-12-22 |website=thediplomat.com}}</ref> New Scientist wrote that he was "Pakistan’s Voice of Reason"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Interview: Pakistan's voice of reason |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250760896}}</ref> while Physics Today described him as fierce opponent of pseudoscience and a global citizen.<ref>{{Cite web |title=In Islamic Pakistan, physicist and global citizen Pervez Hoodbhoy takes advantage of a January media spotlight |url=https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/online/11807/In-Islamic-Pakistan-physicist-and-global-citizen}}</ref> He has sharply criticized efforts to merge religion with science; the politicization of Islam and growth of religious extremism; Pakistan's blasphemy law; military dictators and their surrogates in Pakistan; the subjugation of Pakistani women; the takeover of the educational process by religious forces; and opposed jihad for liberating Kashmir and fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan.
-Hoodbhoy has roundly criticized the development of [[nuclear weapons]], especially in South Asia, mainly by [[India and Pakistan]].<ref name="Dr. Prof. Pervez Amerali Hoodbhoy and [[The Herald (Pakistan)|''The Herald'']]">{{Cite news
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-}}</ref> In 2011, Hoodbhoy held India responsible for Pakistan's symmetric [[Pakistan and Nuclear Weapons|nuclear weapons programme]] as part of Pakistan's [[Minimum Credible Deterrence|self-credible deterrence]].<ref name="Dr. Prof. Pervez Amerali Hoodbhoy and [[The Herald (Pakistan)|''The Herald'']]" /> According to Hoodbhoy, India's [[Pokhran-I|nuclear tests]] forced Pakistan to jump into the [[Nuclear club|nuclear arena]] in 1974, and again in 1998, after war-threatening statements were made by the [[Indian government]] to Pakistan; Pakistan [[Chagai-I|equalised]] this situation the same month.<ref name="Dr. Prof. Pervez Amerali Hoodbhoy and [[The Herald (Pakistan)|''The Herald'']]"/> While believing that Pakistan's [[Pakistan and its Nuclear Deterrent Program|nuclear deterrence]] has protected the country from any [[Foreign interventionism|foreign aggression]] and preventing from numerous [[India Pakistan Wars|war threatening situations]] with India, Hoodbhoy has raised concerns about the [[Nuclear safety and security|security]] of [[Pakistan's nuclear weapons|nuclear arsenals]] and the possibility of [[Islamic extremism|radicals]] gaining control.<ref name="Dr. Prof. Pervez Amerali Hoodbhoy and [[The Herald (Pakistan)|''The Herald'']]" />
+Provoked by General Zia-ul-Haq's extreme measures to create a new Islamic science, Hoodbhoy authored ''Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality'' with a preface by physics Nobel Laureate, Abdus Salam.<ref>{{Cite web |last=bloomsbury.com |title=Islam and Science |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/islam-and-science-9781856490252/ |access-date=2023-12-22 |website=Bloomsbury}}</ref>  This was subsequently translated into 8 languages. The book contends that the rise of Muslim science owed to Muslim openness in an earlier phase of Islam but subsequent closing of the Muslim mind led to the demise of all intellectual production.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Quarterly |first1=Middle East |last2=Pp. 69-74 |date=2010-01-01 |title=Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy: "Islam and Science Have Parted Ways" |url=https://www.meforum.org/2593/pervez-amirali-hoodbhoy-islam-science |journal=Middle East Quarterly}}</ref> Hoodbhoy has continued to insist that attitudinal reasons, not paucity of resources, are responsible for the stagnation of the sciences in Islam.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Science and the Islamic world—The quest for rapprochement |url=https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article-abstract/60/8/49/389445/Science-and-the-Islamic-world-The-quest-for?redirectedFrom=fulltext}}</ref> Salam and Hoodbhoy jointly authored an essay in 1984 that critiqued Eurocentric claims to developing science.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Book Preface by Abdus Salam and Hoodbhoy |url=https://eacpe.org/content/uploads/2014/02/Book-preface-by-Salam-and-Hoodbhoy.pdf}}</ref>
-=== Activism ===
-Hoodbhoy is a prominent sponsor of the ''[[Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists]]'', representing Pakistan's delegation.<ref>CGPACS (2006) [http://www.socsci.uci.edu/events/060512_hoodbhoy/hoodbhoy6.htm 15th Annual Margolis Lecture with Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy]. The Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies. [[University of California, Irvine]]. 12 May. Retrieved on 22 May 2008</ref>
+Salam, an Ahmadi, is reviled in Pakistan for his religious beliefs. In his defence, Hoodbhoy has taken to the media repeatedly.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hoodbhoy |first=Pervez |date=2020-11-07 |title=Salam's face blackened |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1589090 |access-date=2023-12-22 |work=Dawn|location=Pakistan}}</ref> He also features prominently in the video documentary "Salam – the first ****** Nobel Laureate"<ref>{{Citation |last=Kamalakar |first=Anand |title=Salam - The First ****** Nobel Laureate |date=2018-01-06 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7904606/ |type=Documentary |access-date=2023-12-22}}</ref> and is among the notable signatories of the Humanist Manifesto.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-10-05 |title=Notable Signers |url=http://www.americanhumanist.org/Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_III/Notable_Signers |access-date=2023-12-22 |archive-date=5 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005105825/http://www.americanhumanist.org/Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_III/Notable_Signers |url-status=dead }}</ref>
-Apart from his specialist field of research, Hoodbhoy extensively writes and speaks on topics ranging from [[Islam and science|science in Islam]] to [[Education in Pakistan|education]] and [[nuclear disarmament|arms disarmament]] issues around the world.<ref>Hoodbhoy (1998) [http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~acha/politics/hoodbhoy.html Talk by Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy on nuclear tests in the Indian subcontinent]. The Alliance, Pakistan Students Society at MIT, and the MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society. 12 May. Retrieved on 22 May 2008</ref> He is the author of ''Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality'', which has been translated into five languages.<ref name="Fulbright Program">{{Cite web   |last = (FPS)|first = Fulbright Scholar Program|author-link = Fulbright Program|title = U.S. and Non U.S. Scholar: Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy|work = Global Zero|publisher = Fulbright Program|year = 2007|url = http://www.cies.org/NCS/2007_2008/scholars/ncs_phoodbhoy.htm|access-date = January 1, 2011}}</ref> In this book, Hoodbhoy outlines the [[History of Pakistan|history]] of Pakistan, the implications of [[theocracy]] and [[Martial law in Pakistan|martial law]] in Pakistan, and [[Pakistani textbooks controversy|textbook revival]] in the education system of Pakistan. His articles and publications are repeatedly published in both technical and non-technical journals, as well as in local international media
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+In 1996 Hoodbhoy, together with his colleague A.H Nayyar, successfully stopped the sale of Quaid-e-Azam University's land to politicians and professors, invoking a strong counter-reaction.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1996-07-01 |title=A state and its death sentences |url=https://www.himalmag.com/state-death-sentences/ |access-date=2023-12-22 |website=Himal Southasian}}</ref> However, his subsequent attempts to preserve the land from politicians failed.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hoodbhoy |first=Pervez |date=2018-12-29 |title=QAU's land is PTI's litmus test |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1454252 |access-date=2023-12-22 |work=Dawn|location=Pakistan}}</ref> He has been the leading critic of Pakistan's Higher Education Commission whose policies, he contends, have incentivized academic corruption<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hoodbhoy |first=Pervez |date=2014-11-29 |title=Misjudging universities |url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1147559 |access-date=2023-12-22 |work=Dawn|location=Pakistan}}</ref> and created a professor mafia.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hoodbhoy |first=Pervez |date=2017-07-01 |title=Pakistan's professor mafia |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1342483 |access-date=2023-12-22 |work=Dawn|location=Pakistan}}</ref>{{Quote box
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-Hoodbhoy widely writes about the role and modernisation of the [[Pakistan Armed Forces|Pakistani military]], particularly  defence budget spending by the [[Government of Pakistan|Pakistani government]] on the [[Pakistan Armed Forces|military]]. Hoodbhoy has criticized what he sees as the merger of science with religion, especially in Pakistan; by contrast he pointed out Iran, whose religious leaders have kept science and religion separate.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.meforum.org/2593/pervez-amirali-hoodbhoy-islam-science|title=Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy: "Islam and Science Have Parted Ways"|journal=Middle East Quarterly|date=Winter 2010|pages=69–74|accessdate=2 March 2012|quote="[Question:]No Muslim leader has publicly called for separating science from religion."[3] Do you detect any real movement by Muslim secularists and scientists to reverse this trend? Hoodbhoy: Nothing of this kind is visible in Pakistan, but I see this happening in Iran, the most intellectually advanced country of the Muslim world, a country that boasts an educational system that actually works. Ayatollah Khomeini was quite content to keep science and Islam separate—unlike Pakistan's leaders who have made numerous absurd attempts to marry the two."|last1=Quarterly |first1=Middle East }}</ref> In 2003 he was a signatory of the [[Humanism and Its Aspirations|Humanist Manifesto]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanhumanist.org/Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_III/Notable_Signers |title=Notable Signers |publisher=American Humanist Association |work=Humanism and Its Aspirations |access-date=6 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005105825/http://www.americanhumanist.org/Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_III/Notable_Signers |archive-date=5 October 2012 }}</ref> Hoodbhoy [[Opposition to the partition of India|criticized the partition of India]], calling it an "unspeakable tragedy" that "separated people who at one time could live together in peace".<ref>{{cite web |title=Pak was born in a state of confusion: Hoodbhoy |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Pak-was-born-in-a-state-of-confusion-Hoodbhoy/articleshow/50516062.cms |work=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=28 June 2020 |language=en |date=10 January 2016}}</ref>
-Hoodbhoy has criticized the Pakistan [[Higher Education Commission (Pakistan)|Higher Education Commission]] (HEC) for pursuing "a drive to achieve numbers rather than quality".<ref name="Shehzad">{{cite news|last1=Shehzad|first1=Rizwan|title=Hoodbhoy feels restructuring better than saving old HEC|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/483217/hoodbhoy-feels-restructuring-better-than-saving-old-hec/|access-date=1 July 2015|agency=Tribune.com.pk|date=23 December 2012}}</ref> He believes that because of "policies that reward authors of research articles and PhD supervisors with cash and promotions", universities in Pakistan have "turned into factories producing junk papers and PhDs."<ref name="HOODBHOY-29-11-14">{{cite news|last1=Hoodbhoy|first1=Pervez|title=Misjudging universities|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1147559|access-date=1 July 2015|agency=Dawn|date=29 November 2014}}</ref>
-He has been a harsh critic of the performance of [[Higher Education Commission (Pakistan)|HEC]] since 2003 when it was led by Dr. [[Atta ur Rahman (scientist)|Atta-ur-Rahman]], and the issue has led to heated debates in Pakistan's [[News channels in Pakistan|news media]].<ref name="Pakistaniaat" />
-In 2009 Hoodbhoy came into conflict with [[Atta ur Rahman (scientist)|Atta-ur-Rahman]], an [[Organic Chemistry|organic chemist]], over the [[Higher Education Commission (Pakistan)|Higher Education Commission]] (HEC). In the United States, the journal [[Nature (journal)|''Nature'']] published an article on the successes and failures of the [[Higher Education Commission (Pakistan)|HEC]].<ref name="Pakistaniat, 2009">{{cite web|last1=Najam|first1=Adil|title=Pakistan in Higher Education|date=4 September 2009 |url=http://pakistaniat.com/2009/09/03/nature-pakistan-higher-education/|publisher=Pakistaniat, 2009|access-date=13 February 2015}}</ref> Hoodbhoy wrote to complain about, among other things, the article's failure to mention (what Hoodbhoy called) "the billions wasted on mindless prestige mega-projects".<ref name="Pakistaniaat" />
-In the debate on the [[Higher Education Commission (Pakistan)|HEC]], other Pakistani academics and scientists such as [[Adil Najam]], [[Abdul Qadeer Khan]], and [[Atta ur Rahman (scientist)|Atta-ur-Rehman]] defended the HEC while disagreeing with most of Hoodbhoy's criticisms.<ref name="Pakistaniaat">{{cite news|last1=Najam |first1=Adil |title=Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy Responds to Nature Article on Pakistan's Higher Education Reform |url=http://pakistaniat.com/2009/09/05/hoodbhoy-nature-pakistan-education-reform/ |access-date=13 February 2015 |agency=Pakistaniaat |publisher=Pakistaniaat |date=9 September 2009 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626160300/http://pakistaniat.com/2009/09/05/hoodbhoy-nature-pakistan-education-reform/ |archive-date=26 June 2015 }}</ref>
-The administrative competency of the [[Higher Education Commission (Pakistan)|HEC]] was called into question by Hoodbhoy who described its achievements as "dismal".<ref name="Dawn newspapers, 2012">{{cite news|last1=Hassan|first1=Shazia|title=HEC lost track by focusing on quantity rather than quality'|url=http://dawn.com/news/773021/hec-lost-track-by-focusing-on-quantity-rather-than-quality|access-date=13 February 2015|agency=Dawn newspapers, 2012|publisher=Dawn newspapers, 2012|date=12 December 2012}}</ref> Hoodbhoy supported his arguments against [[Higher Education Commission (Pakistan)|HEC]]'s productivity, that in the case of [[Lille University of Science and Technology|UESTP-France]] convention in [[Karachi]], out of an expected faculty strength of between 450 and 600, no French faculty or administrative staff actually arrived.<ref name="Dawn newspapers, 2012" /> At the television debate, Hoodbhoy questioned the statistics used to support the positive appraisal of HEC's activities in a series of communications between Hoodbhoy and HEC chairman Atta-Ur-Rehman.<ref>{{cite web|title=HEC's performance by Atta ur Rehman|website = [[YouTube]]|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYiNGvfbM-A|access-date=14 February 2015}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead YouTube link|date=February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Hoodbhoy|title=The HEC {{sic|nolink=y|Controvery}}- Separating Fact and fiction|url=https://vimeo.com/61231182|website=Vimeo}}</ref> It was claimed by the latter that in mathematics, Pakistani authors received 20% more citations than the worldwide average. Hoodbhoy questioned this on several grounds including the number of self-citations these publications received and said that this was a crucial aspect that the HEC left out of its interpretation. Criticism was leveled by Hoodbhoy at the practice of hiring those foreign academics in local universities who were said to have difficulty in communicating and teaching, although they contributed to boosting the number of research publications originating from Pakistani universities.
-=== Research ===
-Hoodbhoy has made important contributions in physics, particularly in particle physics. Many of Hoodbhoy's recorded lectures on physics are available online.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://urduphysicslectures.blogspot.com/|title=General Physics Lectures In English}}</ref> At [[National Center for Physics]], Hoodbhoy conducted research on different aspects of particle physics, and pioneered studies in modern physics and its extension to mathematical and nuclear physics. In 2006, Hoodbhoy published a brief mathematical description of [[Generalized Parton Distributions]]. In 2007, Hoodbhoy re-published the work of Jens Lyng Peterson the [[AdS/CFT correspondence|Maldacena conjecture]] (a conjectured equivalence between a string theory and gravity defined on one space, and a quantum field theory without gravity defined by one or less dimension) where he contributed mathematically to the theory.<ref>{{Cite conference | first =Jens Lyng | last =Peterson |author2=Dr. Prof. Pervez Hoodbhoy | title=Introduction to Maldacena conjecture | pages=41| publisher =Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy of National Center for Physics; Second National Winter Meeting on Particles and Fields and Jens Lyng Peterson | date = 28–31 December 2009 | location =Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory | url=http://www.ncp.edu.pk/docs/snwm/Pervez_hoodbhoy_003_Intro_to_Maldacena_Conjecture.pdf | access-date =January 1, 2011 }}</ref> In the same year, he re-published the work of [[Edward Witten]] on [[Anti-de Sitter space]] and its extension to the field of [[Holography]]. While the paper was published experimentally in 1998 by Witten, Hoodbhoy provided the brief mathematical proofs and description to understand, logically, the subject of Sitter space— a [[scalar curvature]] in general theory of relativity.<ref>{{Cite conference | first=Dr. Prof. Edward | last=Witten | author-link =Edward Witten |author2=Dr. Prof. Pervez Hoodbhoy | title =Anti de Sitter Space and Holography|pages =41| publisher=Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy of National Center for Physics; Second National Winter Meeting on Particles and Fields and Edward Witten (1998)| date = 28–31 December 2009 | location =Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory |url=http://www.ncp.edu.pk/docs/snwm/Pervez_hoodbhoy_004_Holography_Witten.pdf | access-date=January 1, 2011 }}</ref>
+=== Anti-nuclear Activism ===
-On 14 April 2001, it was announced that Dr. Hoodbhoy would be receiving [[Sitara-e-Imtiaz|''Sitara-i-Imtiaz'']] from the former [[President of Pakistan|President]], General (retired) [[Pervez Musharraf]] which he refused to accept. He said that it would give him no satisfaction. He further added that the award does not imply that you have done good work in your field.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hoodbhoy|first=Pervez|date=23 April 2001|url=http://www.chowk.com/articles/5034|title=Refusing The Sitara-I-Imtiaz|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101121155705/http://chowk.com/articles/5034}}</ref>
+While at MIT Hoodbhoy studied under physicists such as Victor Weisskopf, Philip Morrison, and Bernard Feld from the 1940s [[Manhattan Project]]. Their influence helped turn him into becoming the leading voice against the development of nuclear weapons both by India and Pakistan.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Margolis Lecture - Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy |url=https://www.socsci.uci.edu/files/announcements/060512_hoodbhoy/hoodbhoy6.htm |access-date=2023-12-22 |website=socsci.uci.edu}}</ref> In 1996, at the behest of Dr. A.Q. Khan, his activism led to his name being placed on the Exit Control List.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Hero's Meltdown |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/a-hero-s-meltdown/story-0bisstC1KExUz6hrirLg2M.html}}</ref> In 2013 he was the major contributor and editor of [https://www.amazon.com/Confronting-Bomb-Pakistani-Indian-Scientists/dp/019906833X Confronting The Bomb – Pakistani And Indian Scientists Speak Out]. He is a member of the [https://fissilematerials.org International Panel on Fissile Materials], based at Princeton University.
 === Filmography ===
+From 1991 to 2004 Hoodbhoy hosted and authored three major 13-part documentary series in Urdu on Pakistan Television on popular science and education. To date these have been the only science documentaries produced by PTV.  In 2003 he was the recipient of UNESCO's 2003 Kalinga Prize for the popularization of science.
-He produced a 13-part documentary series in [[Urdu]] for [[Pakistan Television]] on critical issues in education, and two series aimed at popularising science. In 2004, he made a documentary film 'Crossing the Lines: Kashmir, Pakistan, India' along with Dr. [[Zia Mian]].<ref>CGPACS (2006) [http://www.socsci.uci.edu/files/socsci/announcements/060512_hoodbhoy/crossingthelines.htm Crossing the Lines: Kashmir, Pakistan, India]</ref> These documentaries carry heavy emphasis on the issues of education, public health and scientific revolution in Pakistan.
+Following the nuclear tests of India and Pakistan, Hoodbhoy hosted and produced a 30-minute documentary "Pakistan and India Under the Nuclear Shadow" (2001). With help from [[Zia Mian]], this was followed by a longer documentary on the Kashmir dispute in 2004. It has been the only documentary produced in Pakistan so far that considers the narratives of all three protagonists and is titled, "Crossing the Lines: Kashmir, Pakistan, India".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Margolis Lecture - Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy |url=https://www.socsci.uci.edu/files/announcements/060512_hoodbhoy/crossingthelines.htm |access-date=2023-12-22 |website=socsci.uci.edu}}</ref>
-In his documentaries, Dr. Hoodbhoy has heavily criticised Pakistan and India's nuclear weapons program. He also pointed out the seriousness of the Talibanization in Pakistan and its immediate effects on South Asia. His documentaries also point out that American and [[NATO]] forces in Afghanistan didn't help the Afghan people's life and there was no reform in Afghanistan's social and public sector and, instead, the insurgency and corruption grew, which also destabilised Pakistan's western front.<ref name="Fulbright Program"/>
-* ''Crossing the Lines: Kashmir, Pakistan, India'' (2004)
-* ''The Bell Tolls for Planet Earth'' (2003)
-* ''Pakistan and India Under the Nuclear Shadow'' (2001)
 ==Publications==
 ===Books===
-* ''Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future'' [[Routledge India]], 2023. {{ISBN|978-1032458953}}
+* ''Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future'', published by Routledge (London, New York), 2023.
-* ''Education and the State: Fifty Years Of Pakistan'' [[Oxford University Press]], 1998. {{ISBN|978-0-19-577825-0}}
+* ''Confronting the Bomb – Pakistani and Indian Scientists Speak Out'', (edited) Oxford University Press, 2013.
+* ''Education and the State – Fifty Years of Pakistan'', (edited) Oxford University Press, 1998.
-* ''Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality'' Zed Books, London, 1992. {{ISBN|978-1-85649-025-2}}, (Translations in [[Arabic]], [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]], [[Malay language|Malaysian]], [[Turkish language|Turkish]], Japanese, and [[Urdu]])
+* ''Islam & Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality'', published by ZED Books, London, in 1991 with translations in Turkish, Malaysian, Indonesian, Arabic, Spanish, Sindhi, and Urdu.
-* (Co-Edited with A. Ali), ''Proceedings of the School on Fundamental Physics and Cosmology'' World Scientific, Singapore, 1991.
+* ''Proceedings of School on Fundamental Physics and Cosmology'', co-edited with A. Ali, World Scientific, Singapore, 1991.
-* (With [[A H Nayyar|A. H. Nayyar]]), "Rewriting the History of Pakistan", in ''Islam, Politics and the State: The Pakistan Experience'', Ed. Mohammad Asghar Khan, Zed Books, London, 1986. {{ISBN|978-0-86232-471-1}}
 ===Scientific papers and articles===
-* {{cite journal | last=Hoodbhoy | first=Pervez | title=Two-photon effects in lepton-antilepton pair photoproduction from a nucleon target using real photons | journal=Physical Review D | volume=73 | issue=5 | date=2006-03-30 | issn=1550-7998 | doi=10.1103/physrevd.73.054027 | page=054027|arxiv=hep-ph/0601182| bibcode=2006PhRvD..73e4027H | s2cid=15290218 }}
+* {{cite journal |last=Hoodbhoy |first=Pervez |title=Two-photon effects in lepton-antilepton pair photoproduction from a nucleon target using real photons |journal=Physical Review D |volume=73 |issue=5 |date=2006-03-30 |issn=1550-7998 |doi=10.1103/physrevd.73.054027 |page=054027 |arxiv=hep-ph/0601182 |bibcode=2006PhRvD..73e4027H |s2cid=15290218}}
 * {{cite journal | last1=Hoodbhoy | first1=Pervez | last2=Ji | first2=Xiangdong | last3=Yuan | first3=Feng | title=Probing Quark-Distribution Amplitudes through Generalized Parton Distributions at Large Momentum Transfer | journal=Physical Review Letters | volume=92 | issue=1 | date=2004-01-06 | issn=0031-9007 | doi=10.1103/physrevlett.92.012003 | page=012003| pmid=14753983 |arxiv=hep-ph/0309085| bibcode=2004PhRvL..92a2003H | s2cid=5072354 }}
 * {{cite journal | last=Hoodbhoy | first=Pervez | title=Explicit proof that electroproduction of transversely polarized mesons vanishes in perturbative QCD | journal=Physical Review D | publisher=American Physical Society (APS) | volume=65 | issue=7 | date=2002-03-11 | issn=0556-2821 | doi=10.1103/physrevd.65.077501 | page=077501|arxiv=hep-ph/0108214| bibcode=2002PhRvD..65g7501H | s2cid=17897431 }}
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 * ''Raaste Ilm ke'' (Pathways to Knowledge) on [[PTV Home|PTV]], 1988
 * ''Asrar-e-Jahan'' (Mysteries of the Universe) on [[PTV Home|PTV]], 1995
-* ''Bazm-e-Kainat'' (Gathering of all Creation)  on [[PTV Home|PTV]], 2003
+* ''Bazm-e-Kainat'' (Gathering of all Creation) on [[PTV Home|PTV]], 2003
 * ''Alif'' on Geo TV. Debate with Jawed Ghamidi, 2006
 * ''Aik Din Geo Kay Saath'' on [[Geo TV]], February 2010
 * ''Capital Talk'' on [[Geo TV]], 29 August 2012
+* ''Among the Believers'' (Netflix), 2015
-* ''Salam-The first Nobel laureate (NETFLIX) 2018
+* ''Salam-The first Nobel laureate (''Netflix'') 2018''
 ==See also==
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 ==Notes==
-{{Reflist|30em}}
+{{Reflist}}
 ==Further reading==
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 [[Category:Pakistani humanists]]
 [[Category:Pakistani science journalists]]
-[[Category:Pakistani secularists]]
+[[Category:Pakistani critics of religions]]
 [[Category:Science communicators]]
-[[Category:Urdu-language writers]]
+[[Category:21st-century Urdu-language writers]]

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