We were able and we had a plan to launch nuclear test in 1984, but then President General Zia had opposed the move.

Without my services, Pakistan would never have been the first Muslim nuclear nation. We were able to achieve the capability under very tough circumstances, but we did it.

We have to prepare our students so that they become able to face any challenge rising in any environment and anywhere in the world.

We all avow to struggle for making this country a welfare state where everyone is allowed to spend life on the basis of social justice and where everyone can live in peace and honour.

When India conducted nuclear tests in 1974, I wrote a letter to then-Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto from Holland and offered my services for Pakistani nuclear programme.

I had no political background. That's why PM Bhutto gave me the responsibility of the nuclear programme, and we acquired nuclear capability in a span of mere six years, which was a great milestone.

I am an innocent man, but I don't want to indulge in any controversy.

There was a general consensus to go for the nuclear test. The whole nation wanted it, and it was done properly.

We have a safe and good command-and-control system. Nobody can take away any nuclear weapon from Pakistan.

I see my future with my family, with my grandsons and daughters, and I want to look after some welfare institutions I had set up at different places in the country with the help of expatriate Pakistanis.