ISLAMABAD, Oct 10: The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission(PAEC)hashailed the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics and pointed to the contribution it said Pakistan had made to the work carried out at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) which discovered the so-called `God Particle ` Peter Higgs of Britain and Francois Englert of Belgium won the Nobel on Tuesday for conceiving of the God Particle which confers mass.

The prize-winning theory is central part of the Standard Model of particle physics which discusses how fundamental forces can be combined into a single unified force a theory pioneered by Nobel laureate Prof Abdus Salam.

In a statement on Thursday, the PAEC said Pakistani scientists had played a leading role in establishing ties with Cern and took responsibility of constructing 8 out of 10 magnet supports for CMS detector. The magnet supports installed at Cern are labelled `Made in Pakistan` In the year 2000, the country took a major initiative when the PAEC along with the National Center for Physics made commitment to supply Resistive Plate Chamber.

The PAEC was also involved in the central tracker laser alignment system for the CMS experiment. Pakistani scientists and engineers have also contributed to the construction of Atlas experiment.

The important role played by the PAEC regarding the timely supply and excellent quality of vital parts of the detectors was recognised by Cern through granting `Best Supplier Award` in 2006.

According to the PAEC, Pakistani scientists are also involved in the analysis of the enormous data being generated by Large Hadron Collider experiments. Pakistan can proudly claim that in these experiments, not only during the initial period of infrastructure erection but also during experimental phase, Pakistani scientists and engineers have significantly contributed in this international venture.