 In 1965, Abdus Salam went to U.S. and convinced the U.S. government to help establish a national institute of nuclear research in Pakistan (PINSTECH) and a research reactor "Parr-I".The PINSTECH building was designed by leading American architect Edward Durrell Stone; American nuclear engineer Peter Karter designed the reactor, which was then supplied by the contractor American Machine and Foundry.Years later, the U.S. helped Pakistan to acquire its first commercial nuclear power plant, "Kanupp-I", from GE Canada in 1965.