INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Islamabad: Fawad Chaudhry on Sunday stepped up his criticism of India's space activities accusing New Delhi of "adding into space debris",
a day after Indian mission to make soft landing on the Moon failed."Endia is adding into space debris, ealrier &Mission Shakti& failed and
now &Chandrayaan&, irresponsible attitude of #ModiSarkar from region to space is disastrous for the world,Galaxyies and the planet is a
delicate business politicians must not be allowed to play foolish gimmicky," he said on Twitter.To corroborate his claim the Science and
Technology minister also shared a link to a foreign media report titled "More than 50 pieces of debris remain in space after India destroyed
its own satellite in March ".According to report that appeared in "The Verge", by destroying one of its own satellites in space, India is
posing a small but potential threat to other functioning spacecraft that might pass close by."It possible that some of this debris could
stay in orbit for a full year before falling back down to Earth," the report quoted space trackers as saying.Indian Prime Minister hopes
dashed to the ground on Saturday as the much-trumpeted space programme suffered a huge setback after losing contact with an unmanned
spacecraft moments before it was due to make a historic soft landing on the Moon.In a video shared widely on social media, PM Narendra Modi
sought to comfort the glum scientists and a shocked nation from the mission control in Bangalore, saying India was still "proud" while
clasping the visibly emotional space agency head in a lengthy hug.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source
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