Pakistan Media Raise Questions After Its Govt Announces of Sending 1st person into space in 2022

Pakistan will send its first person to space in 2022, the country's Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry announced on Thursday.

Chaudhry took to Twitter saying the selection process to send the first Pakistani into space will begin from February 2020.

"Fifty people will be shortlisted - list will then come down to 25 and in 2022, we will send our first person to space," he said, terming it the "biggest space event of our history".