Syed Ali Nawab
| Syed Ali Nawab | |
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| Nickname(s) | Nawab |
| Born |
10 June 1925 Badaun, Uttar Pradesh, British India Present-day India |
| Died | 23 September 1994 (aged 69) Islamabad |
| Allegiance |
 Pakistan
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| Service/branch |
 Pakistan Army
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| Years of service | 1951-1981 |
| Rank |
 Major-General
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| Unit | Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering |
| Commands held | Pakistan Ordnance Factories |
| Battles/wars |
Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 |
| Awards | TPk, SBt, HI (M) |
Major General Syed Ali Nawab (Urdu: سید علی نواب; 10 June 1925 – 23 September 1994), was a career officer of the Pakistan Army Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (EME). He was promoted to the rank of Major General in 1975 when General Tikka Khan was COAS. Nawab was one of two serving EME generals at that time. (It was at the end of 1976, during Gen Zia's tenure, that EME would have more than two generals).
The head of Pakistan's nuclear weapons project, Secretary General, Ministry of Defense, Mr. Ghulam Ishaq Khan appointed Nawab to discreetly oversee the establishment of KRL, the first facility to make fissile material in Pakistan and its international procurement operation. Nawab was also appointed by Ghulam Ishaq Khan to advise and monitor, engineering and manufacturing companies, to enable them to support the country's newly developing nuclear capabilities. This was important work for Pakistan, as in the words of Houston Wood, Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA, "The most difficult step in building a nuclear weapon is the production of fissile material". As a graduate of the US Army Career Ordnance Officer course and a professional grade MIMechE engineer from UK, Nawab was a technically qualified general selected by the government of Pakistan for the job. Nawab's promotion to general officer came a few months before Dr. A.Q. Khan, key scientist behind Pakistan's clandestine Nuclear Weapons program, was scheduled to move to Pakistan from Europe.
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