Yash Pal was born in 1926 in Jhang , Punjab Province , British India , now in Pakistan . The town Jhang was also the place of birth of Yash Pal 's contemporary , Abdus Salam , the renowned theoretical physicist and the only Pakistani Physics Nobel laureate . He had a peaceful life in the town of Quetta with his parents until the disastrous 1935 Quetta earthquake ( the deadliest earthquake in South Asia until 2005 with over 60,000 casualties ) when young Yash Pal and his siblings ( a brother and a sister ) were rescued from beneath the remains of the buildings that were razed down to ground . Since the town was recovering and being rebuilt , he could not attend school for an year
1935 Quetta earthquake
1935 Quetta earthquake
Yash Pal