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Minister says Pakistan sent Hubble to space, gets trolled
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Islamabad, May 6 (IANS) Pakistan's Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry was mercilessly trolled by Twitterati after he claimed that the Hubble Space Telescope was sent into space by the country's aeronautics and aerospace research agency Suparco, instead of its US counterpart NASA.
Mr Chaudhry, speaking at Geo News' programme "Naya Pakistan" on Sunday, mentioned that "the world's biggest telescope ... was sent by Suparco (Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission)".
The Minister told the talk show host that "... one of the ways to see is the Hubble Telescope, which is the world's biggest telescope and was sent (into space) by Suparco, which is installed in a satellite".
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