Govt announces public holiday on May 28
The nuclear tests made Pakistan the seventh nation to possess nuclear weapons and the first in the Muslim world
Tariq Ali 
The federal government has announced a public holiday on Youm-e-Takbeer Day - May 28 (tomorrow).
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Youm-e-Takbeer reminded the nation of unity to make national defense invincible.
Youm-e-Takbir is celebrated in Pakistan on May 28 in commemoration of Chagai-I and Chagai-II series of nuclear tests.
The nuclear tests made Pakistan the seventh nation to possess nuclear weapons and the first in the Muslim world.
Youm-e-Takbeer will be fervently observed tomorrow in remembrance of nuclear tests conducted on May 28, 1998 that made the defense of the country invincible.
The day made Pakistan the seventh nuclear nation of the world and the first Muslim state having the nuclear arsenal in its defense stockpile to exercise maximum deterrence for peaceful purposes.
The historic statement of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto that they would starve but transform the country into a nuclear power, led to the achievement of this milestone.
Resisting the mounting external pressures, the then Prime Minister of Pakistan Muhammad Nawaz Sharif went for the bold decision to test the Pakistani nukes and thus balancing the strategic slanting power in the region.
