The 1960s saw the emergence of an active space program led by SUPARCO that produced advances in domestic rocketry , electronics , and aeronomy . The space program recorded a few notable feats and achievements . The successful launch of its first rocket into space made Pakistan the first South Asian country to have achieved such a task . Successfully producing and launching the nation 's first space satellite in 1990 , Pakistan became the first Muslim country and second South Asian country to put a satellite into space.As an aftermath of the 1971 war with India , the clandestine crash program developed atomic weapons partly motivated by fear and to prevent any foreign intervention , while ushering in the atomic age in the post cold war era . Competition with India and tensions eventually led to Pakistan 's decision to conduct underground nuclear tests in 1998 , thus becoming the seventh country in the world to successfully develop nuclear weapons
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