Optics and Optimism: An Inventor in Okara

Byline: Owais Jafri Here's looking at you kid A view of the moon's craters Asad with his telescope Al Battani would be proud. The 9th Century astronomer, who determined the length of the solar year, was also a skilled maker of astronomical instruments and gave us a blueprint of the sundial. The same ingenuity is reflected in Asad Mehmood, an unlikely inventor who has made the sixth most powerful telescope in Pakistan - all from items available in his native town of Okara.