After N-tangle, AQ in plagiarism row

After N-tangle, AQ in plagiarism row

Chidanand Rajghatta, TNN 26 August 2009, 12:20am IST

WASHINGTON: A Pakistani doctoral candidate in the United States has exposed a stark case of plagiarism by Pakistan’s nuclear luminary AQ Khan,
much to the dismay of the controversial man’s hero-worshipping fans and the mirth of his critics.

While Pakistan is still coming to grips with the re-assessment in India of that country’s founding father Mohammed Ali Jinnah, there also appears to be an ongoing re-appraisal of Khan, widely known as the “father” of the country’s nuclear weapons.

It seems that Khan, who is accused of basically stealing centrifuge designs from Europe to kickstart Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program, cannot produce any original work, and that includes writing a simple op-ed article.

A recent op-ed by Khan on the “Science of computers” in Islamabad’s the News from the Jang group contained copious passages plagiarized from university prospectus and school curricula freely available on the internet, writes Fahad Rafique Dogar, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University. Dogar has reproduced at least four such instances of plagiarism by Khan by citing the original texts in a letter to the editors, which has gone unchallenged by Pakistan’s nuclear “hero” and the newspaper.

Khan began writing a regular newspaper column in November 2008 when he was released from house arrest after being nominally incarcerated by Pakistan’s military regime for proliferating nuclear weapons technology.

Many of the columns, seen by critics as utterly banal and trite, are devoted to self-promotion and criticizing others, as Khan pontificates about the state of scientific research in Pakistan.

But Khan’s own reputation has been in question in many scientific quarters (including in Pakistan) where it is believed that he is nothing more than a huckster who stole centrifuge designs from Urenco, a European company he worked for, while presenting himself as a “scientist”, when in fact, he is a metallurgist who has no original work to his credit. There are no pioneering scientific papers by Khan in his domain and he is seldom cited in any research.

The latest instance of “intellectual theft” has stirred Pakistani passions in the cyberworld, where critics and supporters of the man have clashed. Khan’s supporters argued that Khan had credited an acolyte who had given him the material lifted from the curricula and therefore could not be accused of plagiarism.

Trust Chidananad Rajghatta to bring us the juiciest stuff lol.

The original article in the news about his plagiarism. From 'Photo chor' to 'article chor', truly amazing

Man, this is truly effing hilarious.

Totally shameless act , I think only some words were changed , I meant no offence to anybody , but that can not be tolerated.

Regards

Well is suppose being called a plagiarist is a step down from 'Merchant of Menace'

I highly doubt his skills as nuclear scientist. I wonder if he was even capable of doing such highly sophisticated things. And Pakistan treats him as a National Hero, he should be a National shame.

Photochor strikes again.....

well thats hilarious

a dogs tail shall not be stright even if it is put in a pipe for a 1000 years it will only remain staright till it is in the pipe

Who, to patch up his fame--or fill his purse-- Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.
Charles Churchill

This article is continuation to the first article he plagiarised. But this time he mentions "(The information in this article is based on the available syllabuses of famous British universities.)"
Though he says he copy-pasted from syllabuses of British universities, a lot of them are actually from US websites. :blum3:

What kind of nuclear scientist he is? :blum3:

can some one please take this baffon the so called "Father" of the Bomb in pakistan
to a mental hospital

Come on guys. He just did what he has been doing all his life. steal!!!!
What else do you expect from him?

I always thought he was a fan of PARC (Palo Alto Research Center, Xerox corp, California).

Turns out, he also likes Microsoft corp., Redmond, Washington for the ctrl+C and ctrl+V functionality.