Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Dr.
Prof.
Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy (Urdu
: پرویز ہودبھائی; born 11 July 1950), is a Pakistani nuclear physicist, essayist and political-defence
analyst. He is the professor
of nuclear
and high-energy physics, and the head of the Physics
Department
at the Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU). He graduated and also received PhD
from MIT
and continues to do research in Particle physics
. He received the Baker Award for Electronics
in 1968, and the Abdus Salam
Prize
for Mathematics
in 1984. He has authored various scientific research papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Hoodbhoy is also a prominent environmental
and social
activist
and regularly writes on a wide range of social, cultural and environmental issues. He is the chairman of Mashal
, a non-profit organization
which publishes Urdu books on feminism
, education
, environmental
issues, philosophy
, and modern thought. Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy is a strong and avid supporter for peaceful use of nuclear technology in Pakistan, non
-nuclear proliferation
, and nuclear disarmament
; and criticizing the United States
, Israel
, Pakistan's
and India's nuclear program
in many national and international forums.
from Karachi, Sindh
. While in Pakistan
during his college studies, Hoodbhoy was tutored by Nobel Laureate in Physics
Professor Abdus Salam
in Mathematics
and Physics
. Hoodbhoy showed great interest in Electronics and Mathematics, and his love for science
led him to travel to United States
to pursue his education. In United States
, Hoodbhoy studied for his double major and gained his double Bachelor of Science
s in Mathematics
and Electrical engineering
, followed by M.S.
in Solid-State Physics
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in 1973.
He went on to obtain a D.Phil.
in Nuclear Physics
in 1978 from the same institution
. During his doctoral studies, Hoodbhoy had worked with numerous Manhattan Project
scientists (who had worked closely in the development of a first implosion device— Fat Man
atom bomb in the 1940s) to the field of nuclear physics. Later, he remained a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Washington
. Hoodbhoy, joined Institute of Physics, later Department of Physics as professor of Physics, since 1973. He engaged his research career extensively on Quantum field theory
, Particle Phenomenology, and Supersymmetry
in that arise in the theory of Particle physics
. Hoodbhoy currently teaches at Lahore University of Management Sciences
, and is a visiting professor of Mathematics at the Carnegie Mellon University
, and visiting professor of physics at both University of Maryland
at College Park, and remained senior visiting scientist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
. Hoodbhoy also occasionally lectures at various topics in Mathematics and Physics at American and European research institutions. Hoodbhoy is a prominent sponsor of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
, representing the Pakistan's delegation. Hoodbhoy is also a senior member of Pakistan Atomic Scientists Federation (PASF). He also serves on the International Advisory Council of the Brookings Doha Center
. After receiving his doctorate in physics, Hoodbhoy, at MIT, met with renowned dr. Abdus Salam and Riazuddin where Salam to attend Salam's lecture on Particle physics. Hoodbhoy then traveled to Trieste where he became research associate at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics
(ICTP). At ICTP, Hoodbhoy began his research in particle physics that was supervised under by Professor Salam. In 1999, Hoodbhoy with Ishfaq Ahmad
and Riazuddin, played a major and influential role in the establishment of National Centre of Physics (NCP). With its establishment, Hoodbhoy became among one of the earliest academic scientists to join the NCP since its inception.
in Islam
to education
and nuclear disarmament
issues around the world. He is author of Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, that has been translated into 5 languages. In his book, Hoodbhoy outline the history of Pakistan, implications of theocracy and military dictatorships in Pakistan, and the abstract textbook system
in education system of Pakistan. His articles on various issues related to science
and social issues
are often published in international media. Nowadays, Dr. Pervez A. Hoodbhoy is considered one of the prominent and renowned scientist who had published his work in every aspect of live. His publications repeatedly published in both technical and non-technical papers. Hoodbhoy widely writes about the role and modernization of Pakistan Armed Forces, particularly the defence budget spending by the Government of Pakistan on Pakistan Armed Forces. While he is critical to the role of Pakistan Armed Forces in politics, Hoodbhoy gives much criticism to the Pakistan Army for imposing unlawful
Martial Law. Hoodbhoy heavily criticizes the militant and fundamental Islam, while avidly supporting Pakistan Armed Forces to initiate their operations against the Islamic extremism in his country. Hoodbhoy was among the first activist who rose their support for the Pakistan Armed Forces Operation Black Thunderstorm
, as part of conflict in West-Pakistan
.
. Hoodbhoy openly criticizes the United States' foreign aide to expand the Indian nuclear programme, and held India responsible for Pakistan's symmetric nuclear weapons programme as part of Pakistan's self credible deterrence
after country was dismembered in 1971 by India. While, he agreed that Pakistan's nuclear deterrence programme had protected and avoided Pakistan in numerous war threatening
situations with India and the present relations with the United States
. Hoodbhoy remains staunch supporter for Pakistan's nuclear energy programme exclusively devoted for the industrial and economical use and human welfare. According to Hoodbhoy, Pakistan puts tremendous and extreme science efforts to developed its deterrence programme which was developed in extreme secrecy under Munir Ahmad Khan
. If the same the finance and efforts on economical and technological progress, Pakistan would be equivalent to that of either Japan
or South Korea
. In his recent article, Hoddbhoy gave a vehement and vigorous criticism to India's 1974 nuclear test (Smiling Buddha
) and the second nuclear tests (Operation Shakti) in 1998. According to Hoodbhoy, India nuclear tests forced and pushed Pakistan to jump into nuclear arena in 1974, and again in 1998, after war-threatening statements were made by Indian government to Pakistan; Pakistan equalized (see Chagai-I
and Chagai-II) this magnitude over the nuclear edge that same month, a fact that India now surely regrets.
Mechanics
, Electricity and Magnetism
, Vibration
and Wave
s, among others. At NCP, Hoodbhoy engaged his research in different aspect of particle physics, and pioneered his studies in modern physics and its extension to mathematical and nuclear physics. In 2006, Hoodbhoy published his brief mathematical description on Generalized Parton Distributions or GDP. In 2007, Hoodbhoy re-published the work of Jens Lyng Peterson the on Maldacena conjecture
where he contributed mathematically in the theory. A Maldacena conjecture is 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. The same year, he also re-published the work 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.
On 14 April 2001, it was announced that Dr. Hoodbhoy would be receiving Sitara-i-Imtiaz from the former President
, General
(retired) Pervaiz Musharraf which he refused to accept. His refusal prompted the Friday Times to interview him.
for Pakistan Television on critical issues in education, and two series aimed at popularizing science. In 2004, he made a documentary film 'Crossing the Lines: Kashmir, Pakistan, India' along with Dr. Zia Mian
. The Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies. University of California, Irvine. 11 May. Documentaries of his are heavily emphasized on the issues of education, public health and scientific revolution in Pakistan.
In his documentaries, Dr. Hoodbhoy heavily criticized Pakistan and India's nuclear weapon program. He also pointed out the seriousness of the Talibanization in Pakistan
and its immediate effects on the South Asia
. His documentaries also pointed out that Americans
and NATO forces in Afghanistan
didn't help the Afghan people's life and there was no reforms in Afghanistan's social and public sector instead the insurgency and corruption grew which also destabilized Pakistan's western front.
The administrative competency of HEC was called into question. The achievements of the HEC initiative which involved the development, staffing and management of universities, with the aim of attracting foreign academics to Pakistan, were described as ‘dismal’. In the case of UESTP-France, in Karachi, out of an expected faculty strength of between 450 to 600, no French faculty or administrative staff actually arrived.
The data used to support the positive appraisal of HEC’s activities was questioned in a series of communications between Hoodbhoy and HEC Chairman Atta-Ur-Rehman. 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 levelled 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.
An article published in ‘Nature’ on 3 September 2009 was the source of much debate. While it reported many achievements and showered much praise on the activities of the HEC, Hoodbhoy asked that the education system be assessed on the changes in quality of teaching in public universities, procedures for selection of students, and on whether campuses began to see greater academic freedom, greater transparency and less violence from extremist groups.
He is also the recipient of:
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Prof.
Professor
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Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy (Urdu
Urdu
Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...
: پرویز ہودبھائی; born 11 July 1950), is a Pakistani nuclear physicist, essayist and political-defence
Defense (military)
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analyst. He is the professor
Professor
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of nuclear
Nuclear physics
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and high-energy physics, and the head of the Physics
Physics
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Department
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at the Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU). He graduated and also received PhD
Doctor of Philosophy
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from MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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and continues to do research in Particle physics
Particle physics
Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the existence and interactions of particles that are the constituents of what is usually referred to as matter or radiation. In current understanding, particles are excitations of quantum fields and interact following their dynamics...
. He received the Baker Award for Electronics
Baker Prize
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in 1968, and the Abdus Salam
Abdus Salam
Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk (Urdu: محمد عبد السلام, pronounced , (January 29, 1926– November 21, 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the electroweak unification of the...
Prize
Abdus Salam Award
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for Mathematics
Mathematics
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in 1984. He has authored various scientific research papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Hoodbhoy is also a prominent environmental
Environmentalism
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and social
Socialism
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activist
Activism
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and regularly writes on a wide range of social, cultural and environmental issues. He is the chairman of Mashal
Mashal (organisation)
Mashal is a non-commercial and non-profit organization located in Lahore, Pakistan which promotes and conducts educational and social activities, and publishes books in Urdu on women's rights, education, environment, science, philosophy, and contemporary issues.- Foundation :The enterprise was...
, a non-profit organization
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which publishes Urdu books on feminism
Feminism
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, education
Education
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, environmental
Environmentalism
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issues, philosophy
Philosophy
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, and modern thought. Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy is a strong and avid supporter for peaceful use of nuclear technology in Pakistan, non
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to...
-nuclear proliferation
Nuclear proliferation
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, and nuclear disarmament
Nuclear disarmament
Nuclear disarmament refers to both the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons and to the end state of a nuclear-free world, in which nuclear weapons are completely eliminated....
; and criticizing the United States
United States and weapons of mass destruction
The United States is known to have possessed three types of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear weapons, chemical weapons and biological weapons. The U.S. is the only country to have used nuclear weapons in combat. The U.S. also used chemical weapons in World War I...
, Israel
Israel and weapons of mass destruction
Israel is widely believed to possess weapons of mass destruction, and to be one of four nuclear-armed countries not recognized as a Nuclear Weapons State by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty...
, Pakistan's
Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction
Pakistan began focusing on nuclear weapons development in January 1972 under the leadership of Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who delegated the program to the Chairman of PAEC Munir Ahmad Khan...
and India's nuclear program
India and weapons of mass destruction
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in many national and international forums.
Youth and Academic Career
Hoodbhoy did O and A-LevelGCE Advanced Level
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from Karachi, Sindh
Karachi
Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...
. While in Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
during his college studies, Hoodbhoy was tutored by Nobel Laureate in Physics
Nobel Prize in Physics
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Professor Abdus Salam
Abdus Salam
Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk (Urdu: محمد عبد السلام, pronounced , (January 29, 1926– November 21, 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the electroweak unification of the...
in Mathematics
Mathematics
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and Physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
. Hoodbhoy showed great interest in Electronics and Mathematics, and his love for science
Science
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led him to travel to United States
United States
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to pursue his education. In United States
United States
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, Hoodbhoy studied for his double major and gained his double Bachelor of Science
Bachelor of Science
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s in Mathematics
Mathematics
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and Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering
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, followed by M.S.
Master of Science
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in Solid-State Physics
Solid-state physics
Solid-state physics is the study of rigid matter, or solids, through methods such as quantum mechanics, crystallography, electromagnetism, and metallurgy. It is the largest branch of condensed matter physics. Solid-state physics studies how the large-scale properties of solid materials result from...
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
in 1973.
He went on to obtain a D.Phil.
Doctor of Philosophy
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in Nuclear Physics
Nuclear physics
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in 1978 from the same institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
. During his doctoral studies, Hoodbhoy had worked with numerous Manhattan Project
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army...
scientists (who had worked closely in the development of a first implosion device— Fat Man
Fat Man
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atom bomb in the 1940s) to the field of nuclear physics. Later, he remained a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Washington
University of Washington
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. Hoodbhoy, joined Institute of Physics, later Department of Physics as professor of Physics, since 1973. He engaged his research career extensively on Quantum field theory
Quantum field theory
Quantum field theory provides a theoretical framework for constructing quantum mechanical models of systems classically parametrized by an infinite number of dynamical degrees of freedom, that is, fields and many-body systems. It is the natural and quantitative language of particle physics and...
, Particle Phenomenology, and Supersymmetry
Supersymmetry
In particle physics, supersymmetry is a symmetry that relates elementary particles of one spin to other particles that differ by half a unit of spin and are known as superpartners...
in that arise in the theory of Particle physics
Particle physics
Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the existence and interactions of particles that are the constituents of what is usually referred to as matter or radiation. In current understanding, particles are excitations of quantum fields and interact following their dynamics...
. Hoodbhoy currently teaches at Lahore University of Management Sciences
Lahore University of Management Sciences
The Lahore University of Management Sciences, usually referred to by its acronym LUMS, is a university located in Lahore, Pakistan. LUMS was established in 1984 by a group of industrialists and people belonging to Pakistan's leading private and public sector corporations, to provide rigorous...
, and is a visiting professor of Mathematics at the Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University
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, and visiting professor of physics at both University of Maryland
University of Maryland, College Park
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at College Park, and remained senior visiting scientist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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. Hoodbhoy also occasionally lectures at various topics in Mathematics and Physics at American and European research institutions. Hoodbhoy is a prominent sponsor of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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, representing the Pakistan's delegation. Hoodbhoy is also a senior member of Pakistan Atomic Scientists Federation (PASF). He also serves on the International Advisory Council of the Brookings Doha Center
Brookings Doha Center
Brookings Doha Center is a project of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy within the Brookings Institution, started in 2007. In its own words, it conducts "research on the socio-economic and geopolitical issues facing Muslim-majority states and communities, and encourages increased dialogue...
. After receiving his doctorate in physics, Hoodbhoy, at MIT, met with renowned dr. Abdus Salam and Riazuddin where Salam to attend Salam's lecture on Particle physics. Hoodbhoy then traveled to Trieste where he became research associate at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics
International Centre for Theoretical Physics
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics was founded in 1964 by Pakistani scientist and Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam after consulting with Munir Ahmad Khan. It operates under a tripartite agreement among the Italian Government, UNESCO, and International Atomic Energy Agency...
(ICTP). At ICTP, Hoodbhoy began his research in particle physics that was supervised under by Professor Salam. In 1999, Hoodbhoy with Ishfaq Ahmad
Ishfaq Ahmad
Ishfaq Ahmad , D.Sc., Minister of State, SI, HI, NI, FPAS, is a Pakistani nuclear physicist, and well-known educationist and academic from Pakistan...
and Riazuddin, played a major and influential role in the establishment of National Centre of Physics (NCP). With its establishment, Hoodbhoy became among one of the earliest academic scientists to join the NCP since its inception.
Defence and Political views
Apart from his specialist field of research, Hoodbhoy extensively writes and speaks on general topics ranging from scienceScience
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
in Islam
Islam
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to education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
and nuclear disarmament
Nuclear disarmament
Nuclear disarmament refers to both the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons and to the end state of a nuclear-free world, in which nuclear weapons are completely eliminated....
issues around the world. He is author of Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, that has been translated into 5 languages. In his book, Hoodbhoy outline the history of Pakistan, implications of theocracy and military dictatorships in Pakistan, and the abstract textbook system
Pakistani textbooks controversy
The Pakistani textbooks controversy relates to the accuracy of Pakistani textbooks and existence of Historical revisionism in them. The content of Pakistan's official textbooks has been criticized by several sources including many within Pakistan for promoting religious intolerance & Indophobia...
in education system of Pakistan. His articles on various issues related to science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
and social issues
Social issues
Social issues are controversial issues which relate to people's personal lives and interactions. Social issues are distinguished from economic issues...
are often published in international media. Nowadays, Dr. Pervez A. Hoodbhoy is considered one of the prominent and renowned scientist who had published his work in every aspect of live. His publications repeatedly published in both technical and non-technical papers. Hoodbhoy widely writes about the role and modernization of Pakistan Armed Forces, particularly the defence budget spending by the Government of Pakistan on Pakistan Armed Forces. While he is critical to the role of Pakistan Armed Forces in politics, Hoodbhoy gives much criticism to the Pakistan Army for imposing unlawful
Provisional Constitutional Order
A Provisional Constitutional Order, or PCO, is an extra-constitutional order that suspends either wholly or partially the Constitution of Pakistan...
Martial Law. Hoodbhoy heavily criticizes the militant and fundamental Islam, while avidly supporting Pakistan Armed Forces to initiate their operations against the Islamic extremism in his country. Hoodbhoy was among the first activist who rose their support for the Pakistan Armed Forces Operation Black Thunderstorm
Operation Black Thunderstorm
Operation Black Thunderstorm was an aggressive military operation that commenced on April 26, 2009 conducted by the Pakistan Army, with the aim of retaking Buner, Lower Dir, Swat and Shangla districts from the Taliban after the militants took control of them since the start of the year.- Background...
, as part of conflict in West-Pakistan
War in North-West Pakistan
The War in North-West Pakistan is an armed conflict between the Pakistan Armed Forces and armed religious groups such as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan , Lashkar-e-Islam, TSNM, Arab and Central Asian militants including Al-Qaeda, regional armed movements and elements of organized crime.The armed...
.
Nuclear weapons in South Asia
Hoodbhoy remains one of the leading and vocal critic of the nuclear weapons, especially the on-going nuclear weapons expansion in South AsiaSouth Asia
South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan countries and, for some authorities , also includes the adjoining countries to the west and the east...
. Hoodbhoy openly criticizes the United States' foreign aide to expand the Indian nuclear programme, and held India responsible for Pakistan's symmetric nuclear weapons programme as part of Pakistan's self credible deterrence
Minimum Credible Deterrence
Credible Minimum Deterrence is the principle on which India's nuclear doctrine is based.It underlines no first use with a second strike capability, and falls under minimal deterrence as opposed to mutually assured destruction...
after country was dismembered in 1971 by India. While, he agreed that Pakistan's nuclear deterrence programme had protected and avoided Pakistan in numerous war threatening
2001-2002 India-Pakistan standoff
The 2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff was a military standoff between India and Pakistan that resulted in the massing of troops on either side of the International Border and along the Line of Control in the region of Kashmir...
situations with India and the present relations with the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Hoodbhoy remains staunch supporter for Pakistan's nuclear energy programme exclusively devoted for the industrial and economical use and human welfare. According to Hoodbhoy, Pakistan puts tremendous and extreme science efforts to developed its deterrence programme which was developed in extreme secrecy under Munir Ahmad Khan
Munir Ahmad Khan
Munir Ahmad Khan , HI, was a Pakistani nuclear engineer and a scientist who served as the Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission from 1972 to 1991...
. If the same the finance and efforts on economical and technological progress, Pakistan would be equivalent to that of either Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
or South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
. In his recent article, Hoddbhoy gave a vehement and vigorous criticism to India's 1974 nuclear test (Smiling Buddha
Smiling Buddha
The Smiling Buddha, formally designated as Pokhran-I, was the codename given to Republic of India's first nuclear test explosion that took place at the long-constructed Indian Army base, Pokhran Test Range at Pokhran municipality, Rajasthan state on 18 May 1974 at 8:05 a.m....
) and the second nuclear tests (Operation Shakti) in 1998. According to Hoodbhoy, India nuclear tests forced and pushed Pakistan to jump into nuclear arena in 1974, and again in 1998, after war-threatening statements were made by Indian government to Pakistan; Pakistan equalized (see Chagai-I
Chagai-I
The Chagai-I was a codename referring to the five underground nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan at 15:15hrs in 28th May of 1998. It was named Chagai-I, as the tests were conducted in the Chagai District...
and Chagai-II) this magnitude over the nuclear edge that same month, a fact that India now surely regrets.
Science research
Hoodbhoy made an important contributions in physics, particularly in particle physics. Many of the Hoodbhoy's lecture shown at the Urduphysics.com, sponsored by National Center for Physics. Hoodbhoy lectures in Newtonian Mechanics, EinsteinianAlbert Einstein
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history...
Mechanics
Modern physics
The term modern physics refers to the post-Newtonian conception of physics. The term implies that classical descriptions of phenomena are lacking, and that an accurate, "modern", description of reality requires theories to incorporate elements of quantum mechanics or Einsteinian relativity, or both...
, Electricity and Magnetism
Electromagnetism
Electromagnetism is one of the four fundamental interactions in nature. The other three are the strong interaction, the weak interaction and gravitation...
, Vibration
Vibration
Vibration refers to mechanical oscillations about an equilibrium point. The oscillations may be periodic such as the motion of a pendulum or random such as the movement of a tire on a gravel road.Vibration is occasionally "desirable"...
and Wave
Wave
In physics, a wave is a disturbance that travels through space and time, accompanied by the transfer of energy.Waves travel and the wave motion transfers energy from one point to another, often with no permanent displacement of the particles of the medium—that is, with little or no associated mass...
s, among others. At NCP, Hoodbhoy engaged his research in different aspect of particle physics, and pioneered his studies in modern physics and its extension to mathematical and nuclear physics. In 2006, Hoodbhoy published his brief mathematical description on Generalized Parton Distributions or GDP. In 2007, Hoodbhoy re-published the work of Jens Lyng Peterson the on Maldacena conjecture
AdS/CFT correspondence
In physics, the AdS/CFT correspondence , sometimes called the Maldacena duality, is the conjectured equivalence between a string theory and gravity defined on one space, and a quantum field theory without gravity defined on the conformal boundary of this space, whose dimension is lower by one or more...
where he contributed mathematically in the theory. A Maldacena conjecture is 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. The same year, he also re-published the work Edward Witten
Edward Witten
Edward Witten is an American theoretical physicist with a focus on mathematical physics who is currently a professor of Mathematical Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study....
on Anti de Sitter space
Anti de Sitter space
In mathematics and physics, n-dimensional anti de Sitter space, sometimes written AdS_n, is a maximally symmetric Lorentzian manifold with constant negative scalar curvature...
and its extension to the field of Holography
Holography
Holography is a technique that allows the light scattered from an object to be recorded and later reconstructed so that when an imaging system is placed in the reconstructed beam, an image of the object will be seen even when the object is no longer present...
. 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
Scalar curvature
In Riemannian geometry, the scalar curvature is the simplest curvature invariant of a Riemannian manifold. To each point on a Riemannian manifold, it assigns a single real number determined by the intrinsic geometry of the manifold near that point...
in general theory of relativity.
On 14 April 2001, it was announced that Dr. Hoodbhoy would be receiving Sitara-i-Imtiaz from the former President
President of Pakistan
The President of Pakistan is the head of state, as well as figurehead, of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Recently passed an XVIII Amendment , Pakistan has a parliamentary democratic system of government. According to the Constitution, the President is chosen by the Electoral College to serve a...
, General
General
A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....
(retired) Pervaiz Musharraf which he refused to accept. His refusal prompted the Friday Times to interview him.
Documentary films
He produced a 13-part documentary series in UrduUrdu
Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...
for Pakistan Television on critical issues in education, and two series aimed at popularizing science. In 2004, he made a documentary film 'Crossing the Lines: Kashmir, Pakistan, India' along with Dr. Zia Mian
Zia Mian
Zia Mian is a highly cited Pakistani-American physicist, nuclear expert, nuclear policy maker and research scientist at Princeton University. Dr. Zia Mian is also a prominent peace activist and a strong supporter of non-nuclear proliferation, nuclear disarmament, and peaceful use of nuclear...
. The Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies. University of California, Irvine. 11 May. Documentaries of his are heavily emphasized on the issues of education, public health and scientific revolution in Pakistan.
In his documentaries, Dr. Hoodbhoy heavily criticized Pakistan and India's nuclear weapon program. He also pointed out the seriousness of the Talibanization in Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
and its immediate effects on the South Asia
South Asia
South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan countries and, for some authorities , also includes the adjoining countries to the west and the east...
. His documentaries also pointed out that Americans
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and NATO forces in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
didn't help the Afghan people's life and there was no reforms in Afghanistan's social and public sector instead the insurgency and corruption grew which also destabilized Pakistan's western front.
Filmography
- Crossing the Lines: Kashmir, Pakistan, India (2004)
- The Bell Tolls for Planet Earth (2003)
- Pakistan and India Under the Nuclear Shadow (2001)
Pervez Hoodbhoy on Higher Education Commission (HEC)
Hoodbhoy was a harsh critic of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) while it was headed by Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman. This led to numerous print and television media debates.The administrative competency of HEC was called into question. The achievements of the HEC initiative which involved the development, staffing and management of universities, with the aim of attracting foreign academics to Pakistan, were described as ‘dismal’. In the case of UESTP-France, in Karachi, out of an expected faculty strength of between 450 to 600, no French faculty or administrative staff actually arrived.
The data used to support the positive appraisal of HEC’s activities was questioned in a series of communications between Hoodbhoy and HEC Chairman Atta-Ur-Rehman. 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 levelled 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.
An article published in ‘Nature’ on 3 September 2009 was the source of much debate. While it reported many achievements and showered much praise on the activities of the HEC, Hoodbhoy asked that the education system be assessed on the changes in quality of teaching in public universities, procedures for selection of students, and on whether campuses began to see greater academic freedom, greater transparency and less violence from extremist groups.
Awards and honours
- An Executive member of the board of Riazuddin National Center for PhysicsRiazuddin National Center for PhysicsThe National Centre for Physics, known as NCP, is an academic physics and mathematical sciences national research institute in Islamabad, Pakistan. The NCP was being run by Government of Pakistan till March 2004. However, in April 2004, Government of Pakistan made NCP an autonomous scientific...
. - Member of the Board of Sponsors of The Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsBulletin of the Atomic ScientistsThe Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a nontechnical online magazine that covers global security and public policy issues, especially related to the dangers posed by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction...
. - Awarded UNESCOUNESCOThe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...
's Kalinga PrizeKalinga PrizeThe Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science is an award given by UNESCO for exceptional skill in presenting scientific ideas to lay people...
for the Popularization of Science in Pakistan. - His TV serials and film The Bell Tolls for Planet Earth won honorable mention at the Paris Film Festival.
- A member of the Editorial Board of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan StudiesPakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan StudiesPakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal established in 2009, which covers research on Pakistan-related topics. It is published triannually by the English Department of the University of North Texas and is also sponsored by the American Institute...
.
He is also the recipient of:
- Baker Award for Electronics, British Association of Electronics and Radio Engineers (1968).
- Student-of-the-Year, Pakistan Students Association of America (1972).
- Rockefeller Mauze Fellowship for graduate studies (1973).
- Abdus Salam Award for MathematicsAbdus Salam AwardThe Abdus Salam Award , is a most prestigious award that is awarded annually to Pakistani nationals to the field of chemistry, mathematics, physics, biology. The award is awarded to the scientists who are resident in Pakistan, below 35 years of age on the 31st of December of the year for which the...
(1984). - Associate of the International Centre for Theoretical PhysicsInternational Centre for Theoretical PhysicsThe Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics was founded in 1964 by Pakistani scientist and Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam after consulting with Munir Ahmad Khan. It operates under a tripartite agreement among the Italian Government, UNESCO, and International Atomic Energy Agency...
(1986–1994). - Faiz Ahmed Faiz AwardFaiz Ahmed FaizFaiz Ahmad Faiz was a Pakistani intellectual, poet, and one of the most famous poets of the Urdu language. He was a member of the Anjuman Tarraqi Pasand Mussanafin-e-Hind and an avowed Marxist. In 1962, he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union...
, for contributions towards the cause of education in Pakistan (1990). - “Book of the Year Award”, awarded by the National Book Council Of Pakistan (1993).
- Fulbright AwardFulbright AwardThe Fulbright Award is a scholarship awarded as part of the Fulbright Program to foster international research and collaboration. The program also awards a fellowship to Ph.D.'s to lecture and teach in foreign universities...
(1997–1998) for research at the University of Maryland, College ParkUniversity of Maryland, College ParkThe University of Maryland, College Park is a top-ranked public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C...
. - Selma V. Forkosch Prize (2003)
- International Advisory Council of the Brookings Doha CenterBrookings Doha CenterBrookings Doha Center is a project of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy within the Brookings Institution, started in 2007. In its own words, it conducts "research on the socio-economic and geopolitical issues facing Muslim-majority states and communities, and encourages increased dialogue...
. - Civic Courage Award- 2007.
- 2010 Joseph A. Burton Award (2010)
Books
- Education and the State – Fifty Years Of Pakistan, Oxford University PressOxford University PressOxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...
, 1998. ISBN 978-0195778250 - Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality; Zed Books, London, 1992. ISBN 978-1856490252 (Translations in Arabic, IndonesianIndonesian languageIndonesian is the official language of Indonesia. Indonesian is a normative form of the Riau Islands dialect of Malay, an Austronesian language which has been used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago for centuries....
, MalaysianMalay languageMalay is a major language of the Austronesian family. It is the official language of Malaysia , Indonesia , Brunei and Singapore...
, TurkishTurkish languageTurkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...
, and UrduUrduUrdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...
) - (Co-Edited with A. Ali), Proceedings of the School on Fundamental Physics and Cosmology, World Scientific, SingaporeSingaporeSingapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
, 1991. - (With 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 978-0862324711
Scientific papers and articles
- Two-Photon Effects in Lepton-AntiLepton Pair Photoproduction from a Nucleon Target using Real Photons, Authors: Pervez Hoodbhoy, Phys.Rev. D73 (2006) 054027
- Probing Quark Distribution Amplitudes Through Generalized Parton Distributions at Large Momentum Transfer, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Xiangdong Ji, Feng Yuan, Phys.Rev.Lett. 92 (2004) 012003
- Explicit Proof that Electroproduction of Transversely Polarized Vector Mesons Vanishes in Perturbative QCD, Pervez Hoodbhoy (University of Maryland and Quaid-e-Azam University), Phys.Rev. D65 (2002) 077501
- Does the Gluon Spin Contribute in A Gauge Invariant Way to Nucleon Spin? Pervez Hoodbhoy, Xiangdong Ji, Phys.Rev. D60 (1999) 114042
- Nucleon-Quarkonium Elastic Scattering and the Gluon Contribution to Nucleon Spin, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Phys.Rev.Lett. 82 (1999) 4985-4987
- Implications of Color Gauge Symmetry For Nucleon Spin Structure, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Xiangdong Ji, Wei Lu, Phys.Rev. D59 (1999) 074010
- Quark Orbital-Angular-Momentum Distribution in the Nucleon, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Xiangdong Ji, Wei Lu, Phys.Rev. D59 (1999) 014013
- The Spin Structure of the Nucleon in the Asymptotic Limit, Ji, J. Tang (MIT), P. Hoodbhoy (Quaid-e-Azam, Pakistan), Phys.Rev.Lett. 76 (1996) 740-743
- Helicity-Flip Off-Forward Parton Distributions of the Nucleon, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Xiangdong Ji, Phys.Rev. D58 (1998) 054006
- Wavefunction corrections and off-forward gluon distributions in diffractive J/psi electroproduction, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Phys.Rev. D56 (1997) 388-393
- Relativistic and Binding Energy Corrections to Direct Photon Production In Upsilon Decay, Mohammad Ali Yusuf, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Phys.Rev. D54 (1996) 3345-3349
- Beyond The Colour-Singlet Model For Inelastic J_psi Photoproduction, H. Khan, P. Hoodbhoy, Phys. Lett. B382 (1996) 189
- The Spin Structure of the Nucleon in the Asymptotic Limit, X. Ji, J. Tang (MIT), P. Hoodbhoy (Quaid-e-Azam, Pakistan), Phys.Rev.Lett. 76 (1996) 740-743
- Novel approach to decays, gluon distributions, and fragmentation functions of heavy quarkonia, Rafia Ali, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Phys.Rev. D51 (1995) 2302-2310
- Quark fragmentation functions in a diquark model for proton and $\Lambda$ hyperon production, Muhammad Nzar, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Phys.Rev. D51 (1995) 32-36
- Systematic gauge invariant approach to heavy quarkonium decays, Hafsa Khan, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Phys.Rev. D53 (1996) 2534-2540
- Twist-Four Distributions in a Transversely-Polarized Nucleon and the Drell-Yan Process, Pevrez Hoodbhoy, Xiangdong Xi, Phys.Rev. D50 (1994) 4429-4435
- Detecting Two-Photon Exchange Effects in Hard Scattering from Nucleon Targets, in Mathematical PhysicsMathematical physicsMathematical physics refers to development of mathematical methods for application to problems in physics. The Journal of Mathematical Physics defines this area as: "the application of mathematics to problems in physics and the development of mathematical methods suitable for such applications and...
: 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
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 PhysicsAmerican Institute of PhysicsThe American Institute of Physics promotes science, the profession of physics, publishes physics journals, and produces publications for scientific and engineering societies. The AIP is made up of various member societies...
, August 2007 - Transcription: Pervez Hoodbhoy interviewing Noam ChomskyNoam ChomskyAvram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and...
- 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 PakistanPakistanPakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
- Islamic Failure - 2002 article by P Hoodbhoy, first published in The Washington PostThe Washington PostThe Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
and reprinted in ProspectProspect (magazine)Prospect is a monthly British general interest magazine, specialising in politics and current affairs. Frequent topics include British, European, and US politics, social issues, art, literature, cinema, science, the media, history, philosophy, and psychology...