IRAN’S space programme is now very advanced and it recently sent a monkey into space.

I remember that in the mid-1960s Pakistan’s space programme began with a lot of fanfare with the launching of two rockets (Rehbar I and II).

This caused great concern in India, which did not have a space programme then. Now with India planning to land a man on the moon and Iran also way ahead of Pakistan, should we not try to find out where we went wrong?

Was it due to massive corruption that we lost the race?

SHAKIR LAKHANI Karachi

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