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Syed Ali Nawab (
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in the Pakistan Army Corps of EME, and a
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with an MIMechE from UK and two bachelor's degrees, one in Electrical Engineering, and the other in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics from
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(AMU). He was known for his classified works in the development of
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at PAEC and the
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(ERL) in the 1970s. In 1979, in recognition of Nawab's contributions, head of the nuclear weapon's program,
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recommended Nawab for the highly prestigious Hilal e Imtiaz (Military) - a solid gold medal, that in its original format, conferred upon the recipient, allotments of residential as well as valuable irrigated agricultural lands reserved for recipients of gallantry awards and heroes of Pakistan. The first Hilal e Imtiaz (Military) in Pakistan's history, was awarded to 4 star General
Zia ul Haq General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq HI, GCSJ, ร.ม.ภ, (Urdu: ; 12 August 1924 – 17 August 1988) was a Pakistani four-star general and politician who became the sixth President of Pakistan following a coup and declaration of martial law in ...
after he was appointed Chief of the Pakistan Army by Prime Minister Z A Bhutto in 1976. Three years later, 4 star Admiral of the Navy
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and Nawab also became recipients of this highly prestigious and financially attractive award. Since all recipients prior to 1980 except Nawab had been 4 star General officers, Nawab was a member of a small but very influential, elite group of officers in Pakistan, at the time. After 1979, the medal was no longer reserved for military officers directly reporting to the Defense Secretary General of Pakistan. Accordingly, the military medal's format was changed by President General
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to a gold plated, largely ceremonial award, given without all the expensive irrigated land allotments reserved for recipients of gallantry awards and heroes of Pakistan that accompanied the original medal. His engineering career is associated with research work at
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(ERL), including the operations of
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(CNC) machines that he worked on throughout his career. Earlier in his career, he was posted twice as the military
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at the High Commission of Pakistan in
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in the United Kingdom, to the
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. Later, as a
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in the Pakistan Army, he used his knowledge of engineering and connections developed during his stay in Britain to establish a network and enable the import of critical engineering hardware, equipment and supplies from Europe that were used at ERL. Among his colleagues at
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(KRL), he had a reputation of being a qualified
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and a competent engineer who sought quick solutions. Later, he worked as a consultant engineer on
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and
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at the
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of
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for many years.


Biography


Early life and career in military

Syed Ali Nawab was born in
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,
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in
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, into an
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family on 6 October 1925. Nawab attended
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(AMU) after his matriculation in 1941–43. He initially studied
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and graduated with
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in physics in 1946, before attending the engineering college. In 1948, he graduated with
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in
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, and
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to Pakistan in 1948– he went to attend the
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(PMA) in
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, graduating top of his class of engineering. In 1949, Nawab was commissioned in the
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's Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (PEME) and was one of few army officers directed by the
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to attend
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where he gained a diploma in
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in 1951. From 1951 to 1952 he trained in UK at workshops in Aldershot, Woolich, Ashford, Sterling, Borden and Arborfield. He then passed the exam for "MIMechE:" at the
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(IMechE) in the United Kingdom. Upon returning to Pakistan in 1954,
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Nawab was appointed,
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of vehicle and engineering equipment in the
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, having responsible for quality inspection and equipment for military vehicles. Later in 1955–56, Major Nawab was posted to Army GHQ as a controller of inspection and technical development. In 1954–56 Major Nawab was directed to attend the
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in
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in England to study
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on the military vehicles. Then in 1960, Nawab was sent to attend the
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,
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facility, located in
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. At
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in
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, Major Nawab attended the Ordnance Officer Career Course in the US Army Ordnance School, and qualified as an
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specialist. In 1960–64,
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Nawab was appointed assistant director of the EME directorate at Army GHQ. In 1961 he completed training at US Army's Management Engineering Training Agency at Rock Island Illinois. In 1965, Lt-Col. Nawab participated in the second war with India, responsible for managing military ordnance and inspections of the military vehicles. In 1965,
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Nawab was directed by the
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(MoD) to join the staff of the High Commission of Pakistan in
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as a military
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to the
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.
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Nawab served in this assignment until 1971 after which he returned to his country to participate in the third war with India.


Postwar career

In 1974, Nawab was promoted by Prime Minister Bhutto to two star or Major General. As such, he became the ranking officer of the EME Corps. Nawab's first appointment as a Major General was in the Ministry of Defense, where he worked directly with the Secretary of Defense, Mr Ghulam Ishaq Khan who was running Pakistan's nuclear weapons program. Nawab was later transferred as Director General Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (EME) from 6 May 1976 until 6 December 1976. by
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to supervise the establishment of
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(ERL); and for procuring metallurgical equipments, elemental ores, and
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that was crucial for scientific and research work at the ERL. As DG EME Nawab used his British connections to the
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to import and procure industrial equipments, and the
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machines from the United Kingdom that were installed in the ERL. At ERL, Nawab established the
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. He was noted among the civilian scientists as a competent
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and able machinist, while working on
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and
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that were crucial for the feasibility of gas centrifuges, where Nawab designed and built the machine components using the
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,
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,
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, and the
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s. Major-General Nawab officiated his role towards establishing the engineering branch at the KRL as a senior engineer and researcher while partially completing the engineering staffing composed of EME army officers. Major-General Nawab also used his influence as DG EME in carefully selecting and deputing EME officers posted as military liaison officers and staff at the Office of Military Procurement (PALTO) that was used by ERL at the High Commission of Pakistan in the United Kingdom. All this was done clandestinely, without Dr A.Q. Khan knowing that Nawab was actually DG EME to maintain deniability. Brigadier Islamullah Khan who incognito represented himself as DG EME to Dr. A Q Khan assisted in maintaining the clandestine aspect of this operation and in building ERL. Brigadier Islamullah Khan as well as other EME officers who assisted in the operation were recommended by Nawab and later promoted to the rank of Major General. In 1977 Major-General Nawab was appointed as
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of
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(POF) in Wah, from where he assisted ERL as well as PAEC's
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with international equipment procurement, facilities establishment, man power and management expertise at WGS (Wah Group Scientists), Acid Plant, MDX Plant etc. COAS General
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was instructed by Secretary Defence, Ghulam Ishaq Khan to recommend this transfer. Nawab used his appointment at POFs to make additional personnel allocations to ERL and to procure ores of
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in the country, and relocating them at a secure location for the expansion of nuclear infrastructure. In 1978, during General Zia's military regime, Major-General Nawab was superseded, as junior officers were promoted to higher ranks. This was unsurprising since Prime Minister Bhutto and
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who had promoted Nawab to
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rank were both jailed after the military coup by General
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; and Nawab's boss Defense Secretary
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was transferred out of the Ministry of Defense to the Ministry of Finance. Subsequently, however, Ghulam Ishaq Khan brought General Zia up to speed on details of Nawab's role in the ERL project and convinced Zia to give Nawab an extension as well as award him the original Hilal e Imtiaz Military in 1979 with all its accompanying, valuable land allocations reserved for heroes of Pakistan. Immediately after this medal was awarded to Nawab, the format of the medal was changed by General Zia to a gold plated ceremonial award, given without all the expensive irrigated agricultural land allocations, reserved for heroes of Pakistan. This prevented arousing suspicion and attracting unwarranted attention to these generous land allocations made by the state of Pakistan to Nawab. In 1981, Major-General Nawab again provided a crucial technical support when he assisted the KRL scientists in redesigning, and eventually machining of the
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al beds and bearing components of the
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s with the goal of developing powerful and effective methods of gaseous method that were employed in the
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.


Later life

In 1981, Major-General Nawb was again posted by the
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as the military liaison officer at the High Commission of Pakistan in the United Kingdom, working closely with maintaining Pakistan Army's military relations with
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. His assignment did not last long, and eventually decided to seek
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from his
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with the Army in 1983. After his retirement, Nawab founded the small engineering consulting firm, the Experts Advisory Cell (EAC), where he worked for the
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as a consultant engineer to advise and monitor state owned enterprises. Later, he became involved in consulting on the electricity manufacturing and
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to the Ministry of Industries and Production. He also co-authored a paper while consulting on the industrial
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to the
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as he opined: "Evaluating Public Manufacturing Enterprises: An experimental monitoring system". In addition, the contributions of Nawab's and his firm, the EAC, to industrialization of Pakistan were recognized by the World Bank and IMF in the 1983 World Development Report. He later consulted the
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on product safety and quality assurance for many years, until living a quiet live in
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in 1990. On 22 February 1994, Nawab died at his estate in
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, and was buried in
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in DHA Society in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. For many years, Nawab's work and role at the KRL was not known to the public and details of his work was kept well hidden until the memoirs were published by Dr. AQ Khan in 2009. According to the various admission, Nawab often used the codename: ''Anis Ali Syed'' and ''Anis Nawab'', to hide his identity while working on classified works at the ERL. For example, when he reportedly met with journalist Peter Griffin to discuss the issue of
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in Pakistan. Also in Chapter 9, on page 64, in the book “Last Days of Bhutto” by Kausar Niazy http://www.millat.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/bhutto/ENG/Last%20Dayf%20of%20Premier%20Bhutto.pdf


See also

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Pakistan Army The Pakistan Army (, ) is the Army, land service branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces. The roots of its modern existence trace back to the British Indian Army that ceased to exist following the partition of India, Partition of British India, wh ...
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Army engineer Military engineering is loosely defined as the art, science, and practice of designing and building military works and maintaining lines of military transport and military communications. Military engineers are also responsible for logistics b ...


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nawab, Syed Ali 1925 births 1994 deaths People from Budaun Aligarh Muslim University alumni Indian emigrants to Pakistan Muhajir people Pakistan Military Academy alumni Alumni of Loughborough University Fellows of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Pakistani military personnel of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Pakistani mechanical engineers Pakistani military engineers Pakistani nuclear engineers Machinists Pakistani generals Pakistani diplomats People associated with nuclear power People associated with electricity Engineers from Karachi Recipients of Hilal-i-Imtiaz Pakistani management consultants