INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Sunday said Pakistan is committed to send its first
astronaut to space by 2022.China would collaborate with Pakistan in its space mission, he said during an interview, adding the selection
process for the astronaut would start in 2020.He revealed that initially, 50 individuals would be selected after which the list will be
However, he said further that out of them only one would be sent to space.The Pakistan Air Force, he said, would play an important role in
the astronaut's selection.To a question, the minister said the debris of India's first space mission namely 'Shakti', which had failed,
was even posing dangers to the space missions of other countries.He said the collaboration of Pakistan and India in the fields of science
and technology could prove fruitful for the region.Fawad said Pakistan was the second in Asia after the then Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR), which had sent its rocket into the space in 1963.The Pakistan Space Science Education Center was playing an important role
for the promotion of space sciences in the country, he added.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source
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