Of the many forwarded mails that I don’t read, I read this particular one because its subject caught my attention: “Pakistani Scientist in Nobel Team”.
When I was but just a kid my Grandma used to tell me how Nobel Prize was this most prestigious award to be received by any scientist ( well she only told me about science award at that time) and I remember telling her that someday I shall win a Nobel prize for her….!!
Now when I had a chance glimpse of the Yahoo! News claiming Al Gore for winning the Nobel Peace Prize I did not pay much heed to it since from whatever stunted knowledge I had of the man I remembered him to be the one who lost the presidential elections of USA…. uh last year? And then he was the one who worked in this semi documentary…An inconvenient Truth! But nothing more…however it wasn’t until I visited Mr. Chris’s blog that the news of Al Gore winning Nobel…THE Noble Nobel prize actually registered with me…it wasn’t a farce…coz up until this day I had believed Nobel to be given to people who have done painstaking work, to make this world a better place…..
I had once started to read this book from my library which unfortunately I did not complete, it was about how a book becomes a Nobel prize winner. Though the book only focused on one part of giving away Nobel prizes but I’m sure some of the aspects of the process could be true for other areas as well….For instance the writer had written that some of the greatest writers in the history who were like German or Asian were not given Nobel prizes because there was no one in the committee who could understand these languages….Yes, I had thought why not Allama Iqbal?? The writer also got this from very reliable sources that sometimes the Nobel was simply denied to a deserving nominee because someone or the other had some personal grudge against the person….!!
So much for the Nobel prize in Literature, but since I did not read the book till the last and since I can’t really say about the authenticity of it either therefore I won’t press for the information being entirely correct however I could sense the grains of truth in it. But this thing about giving Peace prize on a movie was like throwing away of money….maybe it’s not just for Al Gore it’s for the ENTIRE movie team, the concept makers, cinematographers, the dialogue writers etc ? THAT could make a little sense since people say it is actually a pretty OK movie. But why all the limelight on the Presenter on the front? This was disturbing quite a bit…until I read the forwarded email I mentioned…..
According to the issue of October 14th of DAWN This year’s Nobel Peace Prize is being shared by Al Gore AND IPCC, Inter Governmental Panel on Climate Changes and of which Prof. Adil Najam a Pakistani is an eminent member…the Convening Lead Author actually.
This IPCC is a team of climate change experts who issued their report called AR4(I did not read this report though) this year and ended up getting half of the prize money and they deserve EQUAL, probably even a little more respect for bagging the honor. Oh and btw the Chair of this team is Mr. R K Pachauri who is an Indian. So Congratz to the subcontinent for having some glory reflected on us 
I wish to bring another Nobel home soon 
but I sure cannot forget Dr. Abdul Salam the first Pakistani ever to bring the Nobel home in 1979 and for physics nonetheless. 
According to a source he won the prize for his “theoretical unification of two fundamental forces of nature.”
Unfortunately our treatment of the man himself had not been very commendable according to the sources I read from while researching to write for this post….but this isn’t on religious grounds that I side with those people but as a Pakistani who thinks even in Muslim ideology there is a lesson of patience, respecting other school of thoughts and protection of minorities…I don’t care if Ahmedis are Muslims or not…but Dr. Abdul Salam was a Pakistani Citizen and he did us proud…and so did Dr. A Q Khan…I wish if I could ever meet Dr. A Q Khan, I’ll tell him that how proud most of us here are of his achievements and genius…if only!!
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Anyways if anyone is interested maybe they should visit this blog to see an interesting take on Al Gore getting the peace prize..
Also here is another interesting read I found while browsing for Muslim Nobel Prize winners.
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Perhaps John Nash is one of my favorite Nobel laureates probably because he is the only one I know a little about, but basically because he fought against all odds… because if anything his mind’s ramblings were anything but beautiful!
However watching the movie had also made me realize that sometimes you have to work all through your life to get a glimpse of your destiny…Like Marie Curie, …sometimes you just have to wait and see………………..
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it sure is a noble nobel and very timely one coz it has re-affirm my faith that “YES! we are something and we will be there in the future and the future will be ours” and I can proudly say to my self that “I am a proud Pakistani” no matter what the world says and what the politicians want my country to be, it will be there and it will be there someday as we want to be “Rising and Rising”.
InshaAllah
And it’s important tht we are proud of our country and because once all of us lost hope in it, it will crumble badly…it’s like bad times coming on good people….we too are under the bad spells..May Allah(SWT) bless us Amen
but da good people must ve to act good as an honest ,just and freedom loving nation.
and i think da realization will come.
Only three Muslims won the Nobel Prize in Science and literature; for a definitive report see Muslim Inventions – Nobel Prizes