Abdul Qadeer Khan,
who has confessed to transferring nuclear technology to Iran and Libya, is regarded as a national hero for helping Pakistan become a nuclear state.
Dr Khan played the key role in developing Pakistan's nuclear military capability, which culminated in successful tests in May 1998.
Coming shortly after similar tests by India, Dr Khan's work helped seal Pakistan's place as the world's seventh nuclear power and sparked national jubilation.
In March 2001 he was promoted to the inner circle of the country's military leadership as special science and technology adviser to President Pervez Musharraf.
He was sacked from the position unceremoniously in January 2004 during the investigation.
But revelations that he has passed on nuclear secrets to other countries have shocked and traumatised Pakistan.
In a televised address, Mr Khan offered his "deepest regrets and unqualified apologies".
"I take full responsibility for my actions and seek your pardon," he said.
European studies
Abdul Qadeer Khan was born into a modest family in Bhopal, India, in 1935.

I never had any doubts I was building a bomb. We had to do it

Abdul Qadeer Khan
He migrated to Pakistan in 1952, following the country's partition from India five years earlier.
He graduated from the University of Karachi before moving to Europe for further studies in West Germany and Belgium.
In the 1970s, he took a job at a uranium enrichment plant run by the British-Dutch-German consortium Urenco.
But in 1976, Dr Khan returned home to head up the nation's nuclear programme with the support of then prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
During his work, Dr Khan insisted that the programme had no military purpose, but following the 1998 tests admitted: "I never had any doubts I was building a bomb. We had to do it."
He went on to work on the successful test-firings of the nuclear-capable Ghauri I and II missiles.
As he was carrying out his programme, Dr Khan was also being investigated in the Netherlands for taking enrichment technology during his time in the country.
In 1983, he was sentenced in absentia to four years in prison by an Amsterdam court for attempted espionage, although the sentence was later overturned on appeal.
US sanctions
Dr Khan's facility, Khan Research Laboratories at Kahuta, became Pakistan's main nuclear weapons laboratory where uranium was enriched.
It has continued to attract US suspicion and in 2003 Washington imposed sanctions on the firm for the alleged transfer of missile technology from North Korea.
In later years, Dr Khan has launched a campaign against illiteracy and built educational institutes in Mianwali and Karachi.
He recently told yes.pakistan.com: "I am proud of my work for my country. It has given Pakistanis a sense of pride, security and has been a great scientific achievement."
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Uranium Revolution?: Qadeer Abdul Khan and Iran's Nuclear Ambitions
Author: Rob Wood
When the IAEA recently announced that Iran was possibly in breach of the Nuclear Weapons Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) and had likely been developing an enrichment plant in the city of Natanz, the worst predictions of some appeared to have come true. The question on many people's lips is where exactly they procured the expertise to build such a plant, given that the Russians agreed not to aid this development. Given that the US suspects the anti-western Pakistani scientist Dr Qadeer Abdul Khan of possible collusion with Al Quaeda, is it that much of a stretch to posit that he could also be a prime candidate for the source of know-how for the new uranium enrichment plant in Iran?
A review of Dr Khan's past involvement in the international proliferation of nuclear weapons makes for long, long… long reading. Dr Khan is most famous for being the father of the Pakistani nuclear bomb, an achievement which has won him fame and adoration in his home country. His renown has even led to the formation of a Khan's XI cricket team, quite an honour in cricket-mad Pakistan. But his rise to the top has been gradual. Dr Khan earned his PhD in Europe before going on to work at the joint British / German / Dutch uranium enrichment facility, formed by these countries due to their desire for independence from the US in their own nuclear programs. From there he returned to Pakistan in the late 70s to lead their scientists in developing a domestic nuclear program. Dr Khan was subsequently bought up on charges in Holland for allegedly attempting to steal sensitive information regarding the Dutch nuclear program. The charges were dropped on a legal technicality though he has constantly denied any wrongdoing.
Dr Khan's personal history and rhetoric may make some in western administrations quite nervous. He is well known for his patriotism, which some might argue borders on nationalistic. This may have been borne of his experience of the division of Pakistan and India as a child when he was mistreated by Indian officials, an incident he often refers to in interviews. His regret at the position of Pakistan during the succession of East Pakistan also seems to crop up occasionally. His constant rhetorical aggressiveness reveals a character somewhat resentful of what he perceives as western arrogance and interference in the affairs of Pakistan and the wider Islamic world. It also reveals a certain belief in Islamic solidarity. "They dislike our god, they dislike our prophet, they dislike our leaders and no wonder they dislike anybody who tries to put this country on an independent and self-reliant path." In a 2001 interview he dismissed attacks on his decision to pursue a nuclear bomb for Pakistan by saying, "They dislike me and accuse me of all kinds of unsubstantiated and fabricated lies because I disturbed all of their strategic plans, the balance of power and blackmailing potential in this part of the world." It would perhaps not be too much of a jump to surmise Dr Khan's sympathy for the plight of Iran given the USA's latest adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, which serve to surround the Islamic Republic.
As it turns out, Dr Khan has a long history of cooperation with the Iranians. In 1986 he travelled to Tehran where he was largely responsible for promoting the signing of a treaty of Nuclear cooperation between Pakistan and Iran. However, Iran's nuclear program was all but destroyed by attacks during the Iran-Iraq war, which ended only in 1988. The coming of the Taliban in Afghanistan also meant that Iran and Pakistan relations subsequently soured due to competition for influence in that country. As such, the nuclear cooperation between these powers also fell away.
More recently the US administration has accused Dr Khan of selling his expertise to the North Koreans who are busy trying to restart their own nuclear program. It is believed that Dr Khan visited North Korea as many as thirteen times in recent years. Moreover the US claims to have intelligence of an unannounced Pakistani military delegation to North Korea, perhaps attached to the exchange of missile and nuclear technology between the two countries. The theory goes that the expertise of Dr Khan in matters nuclear was traded for the missile expertise of the North Koreans. In fact, the Ghauri I missile of Pakistan is a modified version of the North Korean Nodong missile of which Dr Khan was able to secure between ten and twelve samples in 1992 (Dr Khan also led Pakistan's medium range missile program). Involvement in the North Korean program led the US to slap sanctions on the Khan Research Laboratories in May. This has followed massive US pressure in past years on General Musharaf to remove Dr Khan from his official capacity at the head of the Pakistani nuclear program, a demand conceded by the General two years ago. This move simply served to make Khan an independent player, no longer under strict government direction. In fact, the recent complaints of the US show that some of the North Korean program was aided by Khan in a freelance capacity.
It has sometimes been claimed in Dr Khan's defence that his expertise lay in the area of uranium enrichment rather than the reprocessing that the North Koreans have restarted. Although this is a very weak defence it brings us to the current case of Iran. In 1995, led by Boris Yeltsin, the Russians signed the Bushehr Protocol with Iran, thus agreeing to aid in the building of the Iranian civilian nuclear program. Later in the same year the US secured an agreement with Yeltsin to abandon the element of the deal with Iran, which was to see the Russians build a centrifugal enrichment plant, originally guaranteed in the Bushehr Protocol. It was wisely thought that the construction of an enrichment facility would rapidly advance the military nuclear ambitions of Iran. It is now becoming apparent that Iran has sidestepped this problem.
While there still remains a certain competition for influence in Afghanistan between Pakistan and Iran today, most would concede that relations have warmed, since the recent intervention of the US in Afghanistan. Indeed Iran's foreign Minister, Kamal Kharazai announced in 2001 that "Differences [between Iran and Pakistan] are now over." Whilst perhaps a little exaggerated, the claim is indicative of growing ties between the two, ties perhaps allowing a certain renewed freedom to Dr Khan's earlier ambitions of Iran-Pakistani nuclear cooperation. While nuclear cooperation between Pakistan and Iran is highly unlikely to be given any official endorsement, it remains a possibility that Pakistan has loosened the US-imposed leash on (a now freelance) Dr Khan.
With the announcement by the IAEA of their suspicions that Iran has been pursuing a nuclear weapons program through the development of a uranium enrichment facility, the spotlight must fall again on Dr Khan as a likely candidate for the provision of the necessary expertise. Here we have a brilliant scientist with expertise in uranium enrichment, a shadowy history, which includes offering aid to anti-Western regimes and a history of cooperation with the Iranians. The strong possibility that Dr Khan has renewed his ties with the Iranians and aided the nuclear ambitions of yet another anti-western government should perhaps now be taken seriously.
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Pakistan’s nuclear proliferation poses a tricky challenge
Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, the “father” of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme and the man who relentlessly pursued it through clandestine means and methods for decades, has finally admitted in a written statement that he oversaw its further clandestine spread to at least three other countries. Official Pakistan, which for years insisted that its nuclear weapons programme is tightly controlled and completely secure, is now claiming that nuclear trade has been made into a private enterprise by some of its national heroes! Extensive evidence has emerged in the public domain about detailed plans for enrichment of uranium for bomb making having been transferred from Pakistan to a number of countries along with a new version of a “yellow pages” directory of networks from Malaysia to Europe and North America for supply of materials and components.
What is of critical importance is not only the world’s most adventurous multinational nuclear proliferation but the reason Khan has put forward for his activities. Pakistani officials are saying that, contrary to earlier assumptions, he did not do so for money, but that he “was motivated enough to make other Islamic countries nuclear powers also” and reduce pressure on Pakistan. This may be an effort to garner public support from Islamic parties and countries. It also harks back to Bhutto’s notion of the “Islamic Bomb” for its Um’mah. The only exception known so far is the supply of nuclear weapon making technology to North Korea for strategic reasons in exchange for long-range ballistic missiles for nuclear weapon delivery.
Islamism has been deepening in Pakistan for three decades. Its concept of “strategic depth”, especially to its west, led to intervention in Afghanistan to control Kabul through covert Mujahideen operations. Strategic depth made no sense in modern conventional military terms. But in the context of Islamic jihad, as an instrument of politics by other means in Clausewitzean terms, it incorporated deadly logic, especially when the Holy Quran was invoked under General Zia ul-Haq to justify terrorism. To this has been added the strategic depth of an “Islamic Bomb” whose wherewithal is controlled by Pakistan. One look at the map would show that Pakistan’s Islamic nuclear mushroom covers the whole of West Asia with what Mansoor Ijaz terms as the “North Korean-made missiles armed with a Chinese-made nuclear device assembled in Islamabad’s nuclear labs whose fuel came from gas centrifuges sold by Pakistan’s rogue Islamists.” Small wonder Al-Qaeda, which received extensive support from Pakistan and its most radical surrogate, the Taliban, boasted it could make a “dirty” nuclear bomb.
The incontrovertible truth is that Pakistan’s nuclear programme in every aspect has been, and remains, under the firm and total control of its army at least since 1977; even its navy and air force have little role in it. Its clandestine nature relied on building a black market largely managed by trusted senior army (and ISI) officers and senior scientists in the nuclear establishment. Such people have undoubtedly been under a strong security and intelligence cover as much for their safety as to keep an eye on them. With a flourishing $2 billion-plus annual narcotics trade, and banks like the former Dubai-based Pakistani-owned “Outlaw Bank”, the BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International), and the Mehran Bank to manage the black market in narcotics, nuclear trade and tools for terrorism, there was obviously no dearth of unaccounted funds for the purpose. General Aslam Beg, the army chief in late 1980s who controlled the nuclear programme, later publicly acknowledged receipt of hundreds of crores of unaccounted funds which he passed on to the ISI and President Ghulam Ishaq Khan.
The bulk of transfer of nuclear technology and networking of components supply for a weapons programme to Libya and other countries took place in the late 1980s and early 1990s when Aslam Beg was in full control of the programme. He has been questioned. But it is apparent that nuclear trade continued under the Musharraf regime. In 2002 a Pakistani military aircraft carried stuff from North Korea. It is likely that A.Q. Khan’s special “furniture” reportedly transported by Pakistan Air Force to Libya in 2000 was a cover for continuing supplies, especially since Muhammad Farooq, the nuclear laboratory’s head of oversees trade, accompanied the consignment.
Pakistan has confronted the world with its most serious challenge in limiting proliferation. But the one country which should have spearheaded an objective approach to what must be the biggest, most dangerous and most dramatic spread of nuclear weapons technology since the bomb was invented has already signalled closure in this inconvenient chapter as long as Pakistan takes some legal action against somebody. The White House spokesman said last week that spread of nuclear weapons technology from Pakistan (to states the US has listed as rogue and/or part of the axis of evil) was “part of the past, and the past is past.” Thereby the US has once again demonstrated that its short-term interests over-ride its commitment to non-proliferation. It might be recalled that in 1980-81 negotiations with Pakistan army’s vice chief, Lt Gen K.M. Arif, Washington had agreed to allow Pakistan’s clandestine nuclear weapon programme in return for its role as a frontline state vis-a-vis Afghanistan!
The proliferation chain, according to US experts, starts from China to Pakistan, and then extends to North Korea, Libya and Iran, with Turkey and Saudi Arabia being suspected of ambitions to join the chain. There could be others — after all, we don’t know what we don’t know! Existing non-proliferation regimes built around the NPT reached their apogee some time ago and now produce only diminishing returns. Still, the case for effective export controls is strong. But their enforcement would remain a key uncertainty till breakout is discovered. For example, where states and semi-state actors decide to proliferate to other countries, like Pakistan has been doing, and/or turn a blind eye to clandestine programmes, like the US did in the case of Pakistan in the 1980s, how can such export controls be adequate in stopping proliferation? There is also a need to ensure that continuing adverse consequences of technology do not hamper techno-economic development in responsible states at least.
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Why did the CIA resist the arrest of Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan?
By Dr. Ludwig De Braeckeleer
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan has been demonized for selling nuclear technology around the world. In the post 9/11 era, the activities of his network raise fears that a terrorist group would manage to acquire and detonate a nuclear bomb in a major city. Although preventing nuclear proliferation is presented as a cornerstone of the US foreign policy, recent revelations indicate that the US government helped Kahn to escape justice. Moreover, the CIA is suspected of trying to cover up this enormous mistake.
On February 4th 2004, Dr. Kahn, speaking in English on Pakistani national television, admitted “sharing” nuclear technology with other countries. Through a worldwide smuggling network, Dr. Kahn has sold the technology of ultracentrifuges1. Dr. Kahn used a factory in Malaysia to manufacture key parts for centrifuges. One of his collaborators, B.S.A. Tahir, ran a front company in Dubai to ship centrifuge components to Libya, North Korea, Iran and possibly other countries.
Khan was born in Bhopal, India, in 1935. His family immigrated to Pakistan in 1952. A decade later, he moved to Europe to complete his studies. After attending courses at West Berlin University, he enrolled at the Technical University in Delft, Holland, where he received a degree in metallurgical engineering in 1967. Five years later, Khan received a Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.
In May 1972, Khan joined the Physical Dynamic Research Laboratory, a subcontractor of Ultra Centrifuge Nederland. His first assignment was to investigate various possibilities to strengthen the metal centrifuge components that are exposed to severe stress during operation. Just a few days after his arrival at the Physical Dynamic Research Laboratory, Khan visited the advanced enrichment facility in Almelo, Netherlands. There, he became familiar with the aspects of Urenco centrifuge operations relevant to his own work. In fact, Khan had not been cleared to visit the facility. Nevertheless, he did so on several occasions. No one seemed to bother finding out why. In late 1974, he was charged with the task of translating the more advanced German-designed centrifuges documents from German to Dutch. During two weeks, he had unsupervised access to highly classified documents.
On May 18 1974, India conducted its first nuclear test. In September, Khan wrote to Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to offer his expertise to Pakistan. In August 1975, Pakistan began buying components for its nuclear program from European Urenco suppliers. A physicist in the Pakistani embassy in Belgium, S.A. Butt, contacted a Dutch company to obtain electronic equipment, which is used to control centrifuge motors.
The purchases of many centrifuge components from Urenco suppliers and the behaviour of Kahn himself raised suspicion, as he inquired about technical information not related to his own projects. In October 1975, Khan was transferred away from enrichment work with the Physical Dynamic Research Laboratory as Dutch authorities became increasingly concerned over his activities.
Near the end of the year, Khan understood that he was being watched. On December 15, he suddenly fled the Netherlands for Pakistan, carrying in his baggage copies of the ultracentrifuge blueprints and contact information for nearly 100 subcontractors and suppliers of Urenco.
Dr. Kahn was convicted in absentia in November 1983 by Judge Anita Leeser. The Dutch court sentenced him to four years in prison for attempting to obtain classified information. Two letters that he had written to a former colleague reveal that Khan was asking for detailed information about ultracentrifuge components. On appeal the verdict was quashed because of procedural errors. The Dutch government elected to pursue the matter no further.
Over the last few months, this story has taken a new twist. Ruud Lubbers, a former Dutch prime minister, revealed in August 2005 that the Netherlands was prepared to arrest Abdul Qadeer Khan 30 years ago. Dutch authorities came close to arresting Khan twice, first in 1975 and later in 1986, but the CIA requested that they let him act freely. This revelation is embarrassing to both the CIA and Dutch minister of Justice P. H. Donner, who was previously asked about possible CIA action concerning Khan, and told parliament ''that nothing of the kind has happened. The CIA had nothing to do with it''.
Dutch intelligence had suspicions that Khan was stealing nuclear secrets in the Netherlands. They began to monitor him as soon as he arrived at the Physical Dynamic Research Laboratory. However, according to Lubbers, the country's security agency asked the Ministry of Economic Affairs in 1975, then headed by him, not to act against Khan. “I think the American intelligence agency put into practice what is very common there; just give us all the information. And do not arrest that man; just let him go ahead. We will have him followed and that way gain more information," Lubbers told VPRO Argos Radio in an interview.
The CIA's pressure against the Dutch authorities and its handling of Kahn's activities resulted in a disaster. Khan skilfully outplayed the CIA, manoeuvred around the international export controls of the IAEA, and acquired all the equipment needed for the fabrication of the A-bomb. Dr. Kahn would later recall: "My long stay in Europe and intimate knowledge of various countries and their manufacturing firms was an asset. Within two years we had put up working prototypes of centrifuges and were going at full speed to build the facilities at Kahuta."
Lubbers said that, while he was Prime Minister in 1983, Dutch authorities could have reopened the case after the verdict was quashed. Once again, the Dutch authorities did not do so because of US pressure. “The man was followed for almost ten years and obviously he was a serious problem. But again I was told that the secret services could handle it more effectively,” Lubbers said. “The Hague did not have the final say in the matter. Washington did.”
The State Department declined to elaborate about Lubber's remarks2. “It is not something that I feel we really have anything to say about because it deals with events long in the past, it deals with intelligence matters and for those reasons, I don't have anything to say about it.” US State Department Deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said.
Lubbers suspects that Washington allowed Khan's activities because Pakistan was a key ally in the fight against the Soviets. At the time, the US government funded and armed mujahideen such Osama bin Laden. They were trained by Pakistani intelligence to fight Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Anwar Iqbal, Washington correspondent for the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, told ISN Security Watch that Lubbers' assertions may be correct. “This was part of a long-term foolish strategy. The US knew Pakistan was developing nuclear weapons but couldn't care less because it was not going to be used against them. It was a deterrent against India and possibly the Soviets.”
By September 10 2005, this story had taken yet another new twist. The Amsterdam court, which sentenced Abdul Qadeer Khan to four years in prison in 1983, has lost Khan's legal files. The court's vice-president, Judge Anita Leeser, suspects the CIA had a hand in the documents' disappearance. "Something is not right, we just don't lose things like that," she told Dutch news show NOVA. "I find it bewildering that people lose files with a political goal, especially if it is on request of the CIA. It is unheard of". She had asked to see Dr. Kahn case files several years ago but they had disappeared from the archive.
Mr. Lubbers admitted that succumbing to CIA pressure was a mistake but emphasized that in the cold war era "you had to listen to the Americans". Lubbers also claimed that Dr. Khan continued to "slip in and out of Holland illegally" and the CIA knew about it. Regrettably, the fact that the CIA forbade the Dutch secret service to arrest Khan allowed him to become, in the words of President George W. Bush, the "primary salesman of an extensive international network for the proliferation of nuclear technology and know-how". Dr. A. Q. Khan is blamed for selling nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya but the CIA bears a significant share of the responsibilities for the worst case of nuclear proliferation in history.
1. Ultracentrifuges are fast rotating devices used to enrich uranium. Natural uranium contains 0.7% of 235U can be enriched to 3% which is suitable to fuel a civilian nuclear reactor. It may also be enriched to very high level for the making of nuclear bomb.
2. Daily Press Briefing. Adam Ereli, Deputy Spokesman, Washington, DC. August 9, 2005. http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2005/50931.htm
Dr. Ludwig De Braeckeleer has worked for the Department of Energy, taught at Duke University and Washington University in Seattle. He has a PhD in Science (Nuclear Physics) and currently teaches in Bogota, Colombia.
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For the gullible masses of Pakistan, A.Q. Khan, for the past 25-odd years, has been Mohsin-e-Pakistan (Pakistan?s biggest benefactor), Father of the Nuclear Bomb, Hero of Islam, Angel among the Sinners, ?Alive-Martyr?, etc. But for the liberals ? a negligible minority ? he has been a publicity hound, racketeer and scoundrel who was using Islam, the two-nation theory and permanent animus with India and Israel for personal gains through a clique of journalists on his payroll. When some environmental activists objected that the sewer of his house at the bank of Rawal Lake ? a source of drinking water for hundreds of thousands in Rawalpindi ? was polluting the water, an Urdu columnist wrote: ?The citizens should be honoured that they are drinking the effluent of Mohsin-e-Pakistan!? So sick was the mentality of these domesticated journalists!

They went to the extent of suggesting that Khan be appointed Pakistan?s president like Abdul Kalam, the architect of the Indian nuclear programme. The liberals in Pakistan, however, argued that India had appointed a minority member of its society as president. If Pakistan really wanted to be a creative copycat, it should amend the Constitution, which bars minorities from holding such offices! The vernacular press still portrays Khan as a great nuclear scientist. The reality is, he is just a metallurgist! For environmentalists, Khan has been the source of huge pollution ? not in the context of the Rawal Lake, but by dumping nuclear waste in the Arabian Sea.

Khan had no tolerance for criticism. He reportedly masterminded the ?character-assassination? of some anti-nuke voices ? Pervez Hoodbhoy, a nuclear physicist at the Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU), was the worst victim. An Urdu daily accused him of digging the symbolic grave of Khan. Soon after he wrote to Khan saying that was incorrect, Hoodbhoy?s name appeared on the government?s Exit Control List (ECL), which bars his travel outside Pakistan. Subsequently, media reports labelled him an Ahmadi ? a member of the most persecuted sect, liable to public and State threats. The liberals never revered Khan as the father of Pakistan?s nuclear bomb. ?A.Q. Khan has not discovered this technology. It is an old technology. He has not added any innovation to it,? said Prof A.H. Nayyar, a physicist at QAU. The stark reality is, nuclear Pakistan in the last 56 years has managed to get only eight patents registered internationally! Moreover, nuclear Pakistan is unable to handle scientific and technological disasters. If a disease attacks its crops or livestock, Pakistan doesn?t have the capacity to handle it.

While the media portrayed Khan as a holy saint, the truth is completely different. Like any ordinary human being, a beautiful woman was his weakness. Some years ago, he was so enamoured by a charming medical doctor that he set up a non-profit organisation in a huge plaza and appointed her as its head. He also bought her a palatial villa in a posh area of Islamabad. The lady is on the ECL now! Khan is in illegal possession of the Institute of Behavioural Sciences (IBS), which was established in 1990 for the free treatment of the mentally affected. Using the armed men of the Fauji Foundation, a corporate entity governed by the Pakistan army, Khan has been physically preventing IBS doctors from executing a vacation order by the judiciary. He has collected donations worth $ 1.10 million that are yet to be spent on the treatment of some 10,000 patients.

Pakistan started its nuclear programme under the garb of ?peace? and ?prosperity? but failed to achieve either. It has proved to be a hub of proliferation activities. It intensified the nuclear race in the region. It aggravated India-Pakistan relations, which were much better in the Sixties. Instead of boosting the country?s image, it brought Pakistan a bad name. This so-called ?national asset? has become the country?s biggest liability. The nuclear programme should have been used to provide the poor with cheap electricity. But it only increased hunger and penury ? half of Pakistan?s population live below the poverty line and 80 per cent of them have no access to clean drinking water. A huge majority do not have access to health and education.
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02 February 2004
ISLAMABAD, Feb 1: Dr A.Q. Khan, who is credited to have set up Pakistan's nuclear programme, has admitted to having transferred nuclear technology to North Korea, Iran and Libya , authoritative sources disclosed in a background briefing to Dawn on Sunday.

Abundant evidence to the effect is also said to have been extracted during the almost two-month-long 'debriefing' of most of the top scientists and officials of the Khan Research Laboratories (KRL), the sources said.

Dr Khan is also said to have accepted the allegation about transfer of nuclear technology to these three countries, in a signed 12-page document which he had submitted to the authorities a few days ago.

"Earlier Dr A.Q. Khan was avoiding to accept the allegation of proliferation but later admitted during four intense sessions of two hours each," the sources said, adding that the latest session in this regard was completed on Sunday.

About the fate of Dr Khan and other officials of the KRL, the sources said the National Command Authority would decide whether to formally charge Dr Khan and try him in court or simply take administrative steps.

Immediately following the conclusion of the 'debriefing' a heavy contingent of army was deployed around the residence of Dr Khan.

The government is said to have also concluded that it was a huge intelligence lapse as those who were charged with safeguarding the country's nuclear secrets were found to have failed miserably to detect such a massive leak over such a long period.

"Everybody knew ours was a covert programme and every successive government and security agencies overlooked allegations about Dr Khan's assets in the interest of the programme and because of the trust in his person, who without any doubt was a towering personality," the sources said.

Newspaper reports have already given a long list of property and bank accounts alleging that Dr Khan had owned all of them in his own name.

In view of all these evidence plus the unearthing of technical details during the 'debriefing' the officials are said have concluded that Dr Khan did sell the country's nuclear secrets to other countries for personal gains. However, the sources denied that Dr Khan indulged in the proliferation for money. "Dr Khan was motivated enough to make other Islamic countries nuclear power also so that intense Western pressure on Pakistan's nuclear power could be eased," he said.

President Gen Pervez Musharraf is said to have been briefed on the whole saga and he is expected to take the nation into confidence soon after Eid.

In a related development, the government has decided to allow relatives of the detained scientists to visit them for one hour on Eid day (Monday) while the court had fixed the visiting hours from 9am to 4pm.

Six nuclear scientists were placed in "protective custody" following accusations of passing nuclear technology to Iran and Libya, the Pakistani military said on Sunday, adds dpa. However, sources denied that Abdul Qadeer Khan, had been arrested. Dr Khan "is very much at his place. We just enhanced his personal security because he is a high-profile personality," sources added.
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IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Islamabad, Feb 8, IRNA -- Pakistani Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah
Khan Jamali has said that issue of nuclear scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer
Khan is now a "settled" one.
Talking briefly to newsmen at Sukkur in Sindh on Sunday the prime
minister said, "there was no justification to continue to play with
this issue".
In reply to a question, he said that Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan was a
Pakistani citizen and "Pakistan has right to decide about his fate".
Jamali said that the strike call given by alliance of Islamic
groups, the MMA on the issue of Dr. A.Q. Khan was "unjustified".
The nationwide strike staged Friday by the religious alliance, the
Muttahida Majlis-e Amal, in response to what it called Pakistani
nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan`s "humiliation" paralyzed normal
life in the port city of Karachi.
Dr. Khan confessed on television on Wednesday that he was involved
in unauthorized transfer of nuclear secrets outside Pakistan. He is
still a hero to many Pakistanis and was pardoned by the President
General Pervez Musharraf on the recommendation of Federal Cabinet.
The MMA condemned the arrests and urged Pakistanis to rally against
the "humiliation" of Dr Khan and other scientists suspected of
involvement in the proliferation.
Reports also said that in many parts of the country the strike call
received mixed response.
Dr Khan, considered the father of Pakistan`s nuclear programme,
made his public confession after meeting President Musharraf.
Dr Khan told the nation he had acted without authorisation and
asked for forgiveness.
A day later, the president pardoned him, a move believed to have
had huge public support and avoided any potential embarrassment to the
government that could result from a trial.
Despite the findings of Pakistan`s inquiry, President Musharraf has
said he will not allow the UN to inspect its nuclear programme.
He said Pakistan would co-operate with the UN atomic watchdog, the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), but would not hand over any
documents.
Pakistan began its inquiry into the transfer of secrets late last
year after the UN passed on information.
More than 10 people from the nuclear enrichment facility that Dr
Khan used to run, Khan Research Laboratories, are still being
questioned.
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Dr. Rajesh Kumar Mishra
Speculations apart, Dr. A.Q. Khan’s change of positioning from the chairmanship of Khan Research Laboratories (KRL, Kahuta) to the currently held advisory role to the government may be said to be the result of a sustained Pakistani strategy of nuclear and scientific developments in the country. Strangely invoked silence by the Musharraf government on Dr Khan’s role in the future of Pakistan’s nuclear programme needs a little more attention than it has received.
Dr. Khan himself had wished for an advisory role much before the changes brought by Musharraf in March 2001 at key positions in country’s nuclear establishments. This was well indicated through an interview that was published in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September 1993. Dr. Khan replied to a question by Simon Henderson - “You are 57 years old. When are you going to retire?” as, “Every now and again I let it be known to the government that I would like to retire as soon as possible, and I would be the happiest man if they say tomorrow that I am a free man and I can go home.” At the same time, Dr. Khan had expressed his desire that “I would love to be associated in some way with science and technology. If after retirement they want to keep me involved in some advisory capacity, I would love to do that.” 1
By the year 1993 Dr. Khan would have had adequate clarity of Pakistan’s potential nuclear power and the role of Islamic Bomb in international affairs. Dr. Khan for decades has been acting as the key strategist of nuclear development programme in the country and so it stands to reason that he would also have a definitive advisory vision and skill for the years to come. After achieving the appellation of father of the Islamic bomb, Dr. Khan might be contemplating to provide his expertise to the Islamic states in general and the “friends in need” of Pakistan in particular.
Dr. Khan was quoted saying in the 1980s, as “All Western countries, including Israel, are not only the enemies of Pakistan but in fact of Islam. Had any other Muslim country instead of Pakistan made this progress, they would have conducted the same poisonous propaganda about it. The examples of Iraq and Libya are before you.”2
When Pervez Musharraf asked Dr. A.Q. Khan to leave the chairmanship of Kahuta atomic complex and made him his scientific adviser, media reported reluctance on Dr. Khan’s side from assuming the new post. During this period of change in deciding Dr. Khan’s role, speculations were high that A.Q. Khan was preparing to hire out his services to other Islamic countries. Khan had even hinted that that could be as one of his options (including social work).3
Dr. Khan’s removal from KRL, remains unexplained of specific reason or purpose. It cannot be ruled out that having utilised the fullest of Dr. Khan’s skill and scientific knowledge of centrifuge technology for uranium route to Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, Musharraf might be looking for some other placement for him. If it was too exposed of Dr. Khan’s hobnobbing with potential nuclear weapons proliferators, specially with Taleban, Iraq, North Korea and Iran, US pressure would have been mounting high on the Pakistani government. Musharraf might have looked for alternative position of Dr. Khan from where the scientist could pursue military objectives under the cover of civil society programmes. The new post of Dr. Khan would provide easy access to the scientist for the international visitors and vice-a-versa.
Pakistan’s nuclear weapons capability acquisitions may be said to be based on stolen, borrowed or bought means. The chief architect of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb, Dr. A.Q. Khan, has long been playing a pivotal role in helping Pakistan to indulge in activities that not only have violated international commitments but also showed defiance to the nonproliferation regimes. The murky deals of the scientific community in and outside Pakistan that had started in 1970s remain the cause of concern even today, from the days of Dr. A.Q. Khan to Dr. Bashiruddin Mehmood to the many hidden unknowns.
The Khan Factor of Pakistan:
Dr A.Q. Khan is the only Pakistani to have received the highest civilian award of “Nishan-I-Imtiaz’’(NI) twice -in 1996 and 1998. He also has received the honour of Hilal-I-Imtiaz. (HI). Yet, his critics call him differently, such as “Evil Scientist”, “Rogue Scientist”, “Horrible Example” etc.
Explaining the reasons behind displacement of Dr. Khan from the Chairmanship of KRL, Mr. Musharraf highlighted few points in the speech at a dinner hosted in his honour, (i) Nations cannot afford to sit on their laurels. Success must be reinforced. New ideas and new blood must continue to be injected, (ii) I always believe that the time to make a transition is when you are on top. I also believe that transition must be effected smoothly so that there is no dislocation of objectives, and (iii) Giving any other colour or meaning to my decision is unfair.4
Mr. Musharraf tried to convince the confused domestic audience with utmost caution without celebrations for the new change. At the same time, the Pakistani President staged a gimmick by putting the same old wine in a new bottle. The reality behind the whole episode is yet to emerge on the ground. Is it not surprising that Dr. Khan, who is known for his outspoken character, opted to underplay in a mysterious way and accepted the advisory role, as Special Adviser to the Chief Executive on Strategic and KRL?
Besides being chairman of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) science and technology panel, chairman of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, member, board of governors of Hamdard university, Sir Syed University (Dubai), International Islamic University and honorary member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, Dr. Khan has been overseeing the development of two important technical institutions in Pakistan – (i) A.Q. Khan Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering at the Karachi University campus with an estimated cost of Rs. 250 million, and (ii) Gulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering and Technology.
No matter how the foreign aid gets utilized in specified objectives in Pakistan, Dr. Khan has been a great fundraiser for the country from the Gulf States for education and health sectors. It may be recalled that to sustain the US imposed sanctions in 1980s and 1990s, Pakistan had received considerable financial support from the Arab states, mainly Saudi Arabia and Libya. Despite international criticism, to continue with the clandestine efforts for nuclear weapons development, Dr. Khan had adroitly played a vital role in capitalising his international contacts both in terms of technology and finance.
Instead of maintaining restraint in unlawful acts, Dr. A.Q. Khan was quoted boasting his involvement in the nuclear development programme of Pakistan as – “A.Q. Khan says Western governments repeatedly tried to prevent Pakistan from developing a nuclear weapon capability, but they were foiled by the greed of their own companies: "Many suppliers approached us with the details of the machinery and with figures and numbers of instruments and materials ... In the true sense of the word, they begged us to purchase their goods. And for the first time the truth of the saying,….. We purchased whatever we required.…"5
With the growing homogeneity of strong Pan Islamic affiliations worldwide, scientists like Dr. Khan with considerable leaning for the Islamic bomb, Pakistan may make use of him in enabling Islamabad with more influential say in the Islamic world for spreading of nuclear know-how to other nuclear aspirants. No doubt, Pakistan has long been benefited with strategic partnership with the US and so with the US’s allies. To face a potential adversarial circumstance of any opposition or denial of undue privileges by these supporters of past, Islamabad might be developing secondary channels of sympathizers by utilizing the services of the brains behind its nuclear weapons programme and so helping both the Islamic and non-Islamic entities to acquire nuclear capability. In this context, person like Dr. Khan might be of great utility to Musharraf.
Dr. A.Q. Khan, the so called father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, who is alleged to have stolen the design and engineering plans for gas centrifuges from Netherlands, is said to have visited several countries both Islamic and non-Islamic. Little is known of the details of the scientist’s activities during foreign visits. If the purpose of his tours implied sharing of missile and nuclear know-how between states, it requires intelligent attention of the world community. His hobnobbing with the institutions and individuals may be said to be benefiting those who might be interested in the nuclear expertise of the scientists, materials, equipments and technology available in Pakistan. If Dr. Khan’s interaction with the scientists of Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Libya remains similar to the kinds of his reported visits to North Korea, norms of the nonproliferation regimes can be said to have been more brazenly violated.
While the aspirations of few Islamic countries to acquire nuclear weapons are wedded to the ideas in the realm of “Islamic Bomb”, the motivation of the so called jehadis for the weapons of mass destruction components and know-how reflect pertinently on the rise of nuclear terror throughout the world. The challenges of nonproliferation advocates do not stop here only and so require attention in addition to these two assumed realities.
The latest expose, though no revelation for US and few others, Pakistan-North Korea barter arrangement in the area of non-conventional military capabilities recognises facts far beyond the topics related to Islamic affiliations for the bomb and the secret facilitators of weapons of mass destruction worldwide. The principal motive of secret proliferators may be seen as expansion of unstable world security environment with multiplicity of asymmetric threats.
The movement of the brains behind Pakistan’s nuclear and missile capability if not closely examined and controlled in time, the technological know-how of weapons of mass destruction may covertly transcend several national boundaries. The flagrant nonconformity of various kinds of transborder movements of men and materials originating from Pakistan poses a serious threat of weapons of mass destruction falling into the wrong hands. The tireless task that A.Q. Khan had assumed to nuclearise the Islamic republic some three decades ago still keeps rolling in the face of international condemnation for Pakistan’s nuclear blackmailing.
The intent of active participation by Dr Khan in the affairs of Pakistan may be measured through what he had expressed in 2001, in an interview to Zeba Khan of Human Development Foundation, Schaumburg. Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan replied on a question of his retirement as following: “I can't ever retire, if I quit government work I will do social work full time. Charity is the family business……….I keep busy in other ways too not just charity, I coordinate a number of scientific projects, I'm working on industrial revival and establishment, I'm on the boards of so many Universities. I've built a Polytechnic Institute in Mianwali, and now I'm building a Genetic Engineering Institute in Karachi, which I believe will be the best in all of Asia.”6
So in the near future, Dr. Khan is not to retire from his active participation for Pakistan as his country. For the critics who see him as an “evil scientist”, Dr. Khan says,” Unfortunately, my adversaries belong to a category of people who did not even spare our god, our prophets and our most honest and sincere leaders. They dislike me and accuse me of all kinds of unsubstantiated and fabricated lies because I disturbed all their strategic plans, the balance of power and blackmailing potential in this part of the world. I am not a madman or a nut.”7
The reality of being called an “evil scientist” lies somewhere in between “his wishes” for Pakistan’s reaching new heights of strategic balance in international affairs and “the means” that Dr. Khan has been choosing to achieve his mission.
Brief Background of Dr. A.Q. Khan:
Dr. A. Q Khan was born in1936 in Bhopal (present state of Madhya Pradesh in India) in a teacher’s family. Before migrating to Karachi in 1952 he remained in India even after the creation of Pakistan in 1947. After finishing study at school in Karachi, he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1960 from the University of Karachi. Khan went to Europe in 1961. First, he attended the Technische Universität of West Berlin. He received a Master of Science degree in metallurgical engineering in 1967 from Delft Technological University of Leuven, Belgium. Khan. Then he received his Ph.D. degree in metallurgy from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium in 1972.
In May 1972 Khan went to work for the Physical Dynamics Research Laboratory (FDO), a subsidiary of Verenigde Machine-Fabrieken, in Amsterdam. FDO was a subcontractor to Ultra-Centrifuge Nederland (UCN) - the Dutch partner of the tri-national European uranium enrichment centrifuge consortium URENCO, made up of Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands.
It is said that only within a week of starting with FDO A. Q. Khan was sent to the UCN enrichment facility in Almelo, Netherlands. The procedure of transmittal of security paperwork was ignored by both FDO and UCN, because Khan was not cleared to visit the UCN facility, though it was assumed that he would do so repeatedly during his employment.
In Almelo Dr. Khan was assigned with translating highly classified technical documents dealing with the centrifuges in detail. Against the normal norms, during his period of job he often took the documents home with FDO's consent. For almost two years Khan worked with two early centrifuge designs, the CNOR and SNOR machines. In late 1974 UCN put Khan on the duty of translating highly classified design documents for two advanced German machines, the G-1 and G-2. These two designs were supposed to be the most sophisticated industrial enrichment technology in the world at the time.
In January 1976, Khan and his family suddenly left for Pakistan from Holland. Dr. Khan’s wife, reportedly, wrote back to her neighbors in Holland that they were on vacation and that her husband had fallen ill. Later, Dr. Khan sent his letter of resignation to FDO, to be effective from March 1976.
The technical know-how acquired from Delft Technological University of Leuven, Belgium could have firmly led Dr. Khan to readily accept the invitation from his parent country to initially work under the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), headed by Munir Ahmad Khan. Due to some internal bickering, the then Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto gave Khan autonomous control of the uranium enrichment project, reporting directly to the Prime Minister's office, an arrangement that continues till today. On 31 July 1976 A.Q. Khan founded Engineering Research Laboratories (ERL), with the exclusive task of development of Uranium Enrichment Plant.
ERL was renamed by the then President of Pakistan, General Zia-ul-Haq on May 1, 1981 as Dr Abdul Quadeer Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) with Dr. Khan as its Chairman. He retired from the Chairmanship of KRL on March 30, 2001 and assumed the role of adviser to the chief executive, Mr. Pervez Musharraf. The official designation for his new role is “Special Adviser to the Chief Executive on Strategic and KRL (Khan Research Laboratories) Affairs”.
Dr. Khan took advantage of his experience of many years of working on the projects in Europe and his contacts there with various manufacturing firms, but denied engaging in nuclear espionage for which a court in Amsterdam sentenced him in absentia in 1983 to four years in prison. An appeals court two years later upheld his appeal against the conviction and quashed the sentence for failure to properly deliver summons to him.
Khan’s imperious security arrangement:
To maintain secrecy of what Dr. Khan was pursuing for the acquisition of nuclear capability to Pakistan there have been various reports of unsolved mysteries. As late as in 2001, it was reported that Kim Sa-nae, wife of a senior DPRK diplomat, was shot dead on June 9,1998 in Islamabad just a week after Pakistan's first nuclear tests. Her husband Kang Thae-yun - who as economic counselor in the embassy worked for Changgwang Sinyong (CSC) - disappeared soon afterwards. Both were close to A.Q. Khan. The mystery remains unsolved, but the suspicion is that either or both had planned to defect and reveal all.
For quite long years there have been a number of incidents that include encounters between foreigners and the heavy-handed security management for Khan and KRL. In late July 1979, unidentified men stopped and beat severely the French Ambassador and his First Secretary as they were driving by Khan's laboratories in Kahuta. A few weeks later in August a journalist for the Financial Times named Chris Sherwell who while trying to locate Khan's house to conduct an interview in Islamabad was beaten up and then arrested and charged on fictitious crimes, forcing him to leave the country. Later police detained a British diplomat’s son after losing his way in the Islamabad district that houses Khan.
Suspected deeds of Dr. Khan:
Saudis might be trying to purchase nukes in which Dr. Khan was instrumental to the deal, as reported by The Middle East Intelligence Bulletin. Through a report published on August 3, 1999 in the Guardian, the Bulletin quoted a senior British official expressing "concern" that Saudi Arabia might be seeking to buy nuclear weapons.8 Suspicions were first raised as early as in May 1999, when Saudi Defense Minister Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz toured Pakistan's secret nuclear facilities. Prince Sultan reportedly had visited a uranium enrichment plant and missile production facility, and was briefed by A.Q. Khan, the chief architect of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program. The intelligence report also mentioned Western officials who maintained that Saudi Arabia might have agreed to finance the program as well.
The latest report of Pakistan’s clandestine support to North Korean secret uranium enrichment programme has a lot to do with Dr. Khan’s involvement into the unlawful exchange of scientists, equipments, and technology between the two countries. Close at the Chagai Hills tests of May 1998, speculation is that one of the devices tested was of/for (?) North Korea.
Though the US was aware of the past connections between North Korea and Pakistan, the Bush administration is not speaking much on the issue. Various important aspects are getting highlighted in different academic, intelligence and media reports. It is widely acknowledged that Dr. Khan brokered the North Korean deal. The NBC News report mentions that Dr. Khan visited North Korea in the late 1990s. The report quoted a reliable source outside the government saying that the eminent scientist provided “information and technology” to the North Koreans and also hosted a delegation from Pyongyang in Pakistan.9 The Director of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, Joseph Cirincione, has been frequently quoted in media for his assertion that in the last four years before retirement “ he (Dr. Khan) made 12 separate trips to Pyongyang”.
In a press conference on November 28, 2001,when asked to comment on a report that Iran was going to be a nuclear power and that scientist Dr. A.Q. Khan had visited Iran secretly, the foreign office spokesman refuted the report. The Pakistani spokesman said that “Dr. A.Q. Khan has never in his life visited Iran, even as a tourist.”10 Such denials from Pakistan are yet to be closely verified.
Literature on military affairs explains that in late 1986 and early 1987, Iran and Pakistan began to cooperate on nuclear matters. This was precipitated by a visit to Iran by A.Q. Khan, the head of Pakistan's clandestine uranium enrichment program. Moreover, according to Iranian opposition sources, Iran and Pakistan signed an agreement for joint development of nuclear weapons. Iran is said to be providing funding while Pakistan contributes through its expertise, including training Tehran's nuclear physicists at Pakistan's Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology.11
It may be recalled that as early as in January 1987, Dr. Khan had attended a high level meeting of leading nuclear scientists in Iran, held in the Amir Kabir College. It is also believed that Dr. Khan had visited both Tehran and Bushehr in connection with the assessment of potentials of Iranian nuclear development programme. Since then there have been regular exchange of scientists between Pakistan and Iran for training and transferring of technical know-how. Dr. Khan, being the head of the Pakistani nuclear development programme must be the driving force behind all such activities.
As far as transfer of missiles is concerned, North Korean links with Iran are widely acknowledged. This can not be ruled out that Dr. Khan, being an expert on imported missiles in Pakistan from North Korea, might readily play a scientific role between North Korea and Iran to serve the interest of North Korea as part of Pakistani barter arrangement with North Korea.
Pakistani soft corner for Saudi Arabia and Libya might be based on the fact that for long Islamabad has been receiving financial support to sustain its ambitious nuclear and missile development programmes. It cannot be ruled out that as against to the given help to Islamabad if the financier states get tempted to acquire missiles or nuclear know-how through Pakistan, Dr. Khan could play crucial role in such an arrangement.
Dr. Khan is also believed to have helped Iraq with its nuclear and missile efforts. A media report12 that mentions “Internal communications” between Iraqi security agencies seized by UN weapons inspectors apparently corroborate this belief. A few of these seized communications, reportedly made available to Indian security agencies too, had spelt out involvement of Khan extensively in the context of Iraq’s weapons programme.
An important defector from the Saddam’s regime, Lt. General Hussein Kamel, Saddam’s son-in-law and the then in-charge of the country’s nuclear weapons development programme, had passed on a document to the US. The document revealed that as early as in 1990, on the eve the US strike on Iraq, the Iraqi intelligence reportedly had sent a memo to the directorate of its nuclear weapons development programme concerning the offer made by Dr. A.Q. Khan to help Iraq in producing nuclear weapon. The UN officials reportedly retrieved the same document too. The memorandum of October 6, 1990 from Section B-15 of Iraqi intelligence to Section S-16 of the Nuclear weapons Directorate mentions a proposal from “Pakistani scientist Abd-al Qadeer Khan” to help Iraq “manufacture a nuclear weapon”.
Dr. Khan refuted it as “totally false and baseless”. But the literature on defence and strategic matters reveal that Iraqi officials both from intelligence and nuclear development programme had made several visits to Pakistan in early months of 1990. Frantic efforts were made to pursuade Pakistani scientists through bribes and Islamic sentiments. How far the involvement of the government agencies like ISI and key official functionaries from military and nuclear establishments of Pakistan could be for clandestinely supporting the Iraqi motivation may be guessed well from the prevailing nexus amongst the three agencies inside Pakistan to carry out unlawful acts of international proliferation.
Conclusion :
Movement of men and material relating to the spread of weapons of mass destruction has always been the matter of great concern to the advocates of nonproliferation. The rising number of rogue entities get further boost from money launderers and fundamentalist elements. The challenge ahead is how to monitor and control the illegal acts of both the state and non-state actors.
In case of Pakistan there lies a peculiar example of state sponsored illegal scientific practices. Dr. A.Q. Khan, the brain behind Pakistan’s nuclear and missile development programmes, holds vehement anti-India, anti-West feeling and strong leaning towards Islamic countries.
If a person of such high intellect and vision knowingly or unknowingly indulges in unlawful activities violating international proliferation norms, its ramifications could be dangerous for the stability and peace of the international security system.
One can assume that in case of shortage of enrichment material after the closure of Baghalchur uranium mines, Pakistan might be on the lookout for new sources both inside and outside the country. Having no options within the country, to outsource new opportunities Islamabad might be assigning the most difficult task to the most interested person in nuclear and missile technology- A.Q. Khan. In such circumstances, the overenthusiastic and emotional scientist with uncontrolled past experience, Dr. Khan can go to any extent to execute his assigned obligations.
The pattern of such acquisition embodies two facets of illegal transfer of nuclear weapons technology and equipments as – recipient and the exporter entities. Nuclear blackmailing manifests in the spread of weapons of mass destruction by wrong routes and enabled by nuclear irresponsible entities like Pakistan. Today, bringing to a halt to such practices should be the most important concern of the world community.

References:
1. Simon Henderson,"We Can Do it Ourselves”, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September 1993
2. Robert Windrem, “A.Q. Khan, country’s nuclear father, aided Pyongyang’s weapons program”, NBC News, October 18,2002
3. “Father' of Pak bomb may go abroad”, Strategic Affairs, No. 0017, March 16, 2001
4. Chief Executive General Pervez Musharraf speech at dinner in honour of Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan and Dr Ashfaq Khan. http://www.pak.gov.pk/CE_Addresses/
ce_speech_at_dinner_abdul_qadeer.htm
5. “Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan - The Father of the Islamic Bomb”, The RiskRisk Report, Volume 1 Number 6, July-August 1995, Page 5
6. “Abdul Qadeer Khan: The Man Behind the Myth” Interview by Zeba Khan, 2001, Human Development Foundation http://www.yespakistan.com/people/
abdul_qadeer.asp)
7. Ibid.,
8. “Saudis May Be Trying to Purchase Nukes”, The Middle East Intelligence Bulletin, Intelligence Brief, V0l.1, No.8 August 1999.
9. “Pakistan scientist brokered N. Korea deal”, NBC News report, October 18, 2002, http://www.msnbc.com/news/765161.asp
10. Transcript of the press conference, Address by the foreign office spokesman and the D.G. ISPR, 28 November 2001, http://www.forisb.org/briefings/FOS01-77.htm
11. Ritcheson, Philip L., “Iranian military resurgence: Scope, motivations, and implications for regional security, Armed Forces and Society”, Vol. 21, Issue. 4, Summer 1995, also quoted Kenneth R. Timmerman, “Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Cases of Iran, Syria, and Libya”, A Simon Wiesenthal Center Special Report, August 1992, 41-42; William E. Burrows and Robert Windrem, “Critical Mass”, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994, p. 342; and Betsy Perabo, "A Chronology of Iran's Nuclear Program," Eye On Supply, (Emerging Nuclear Suppliers Project of the Monterey Institute of International Studies [ENSP], No. 7, Fall 1992, ENSP, pp. 53, 59, 64, 70; and Leonard S. Spector, “Nuclear Ambitions”, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990, p. 212.
12. “A.Q.Khan behind Iraqi N-programme”, Special Report, Newsinsight.net, The Public Affairs Magazine, October 5, 2002 http://www.indiareacts.com/archivefeatures/
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Father of Islamic Bomb arrested and taken into custody for 3 months on America and IAEA's request.

The most famous Muslim Scientist alive Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan who fathered the "Islamic Bomb",the man who gave Islamic World it's first Atomic Bomb and made Pakistan into 7th Nuclear country in the world was taken into Custody, investigated and now house arrested for 3 months.
The military dictator Pervez Musharraf ordered the arrest of Mr Khan about 2 weeks back, and now after a long time he has officially ordered his house arrest for 3 months.
The military government also announced that DR A Q Khan had confessed of transferring the Nuclear Technology and Raw material ,and for the past 3 days several disgraceful statements have been launched against the Pakistani Hero.But today on Feb 3 a head of Political Party talked to A Q Khan via Mobile phone and Khan completely denied that he has signed or issued any such statements. The western media and Pakistan's Puppet TV Channel PTV has been bombarding disrespectful and False statements against Mr Khan. Mr Khan also demanded to talk to the Media regarding this matter, but not only he has been banned from talking to Media but he has been under very strict House arrest and is Banned from talking to any of his relatives or friends by any medium .No one has been allowed to enter or leave his home.
But this disgraceful behaviour is not new because as soon as the Dictator Pervez Musharraf took the office in 1999 and after few months Mr Khan was removed for his Seat of Head of A Q Khan Labs, news also spread that The General has secretly agreed with American Officials of Dismantling the Nuclear Program. And although the government denied, now it seems that the time is coming soon when Pakistan will be scraped from it's most powerful Weapon .Pakistani People have blamed that the General has bowed his head down against the Israeli and American Lobby and are Praying that
Allah Protect Pakistan and A Q Khan from the trap of Devilish forces.
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Khan's Nuclear Facts-
---Abdul Qadeer Khan was born into a modest family in Bhopal, India, in 1935.
---He migrated to Pakistan in 1952, following the country's partition from India five years earlier.
---He graduated from the University of Karachi before moving to Europe for further studies in West Germany and Belgium.
---In the 1970s, he took a job at a uranium enrichment plant run by the British-Dutch-German consortium Urenco.
---1976,Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto announces to build "Islamic Bomb", a bomb for defense of all Islamic Countries.
---Khan who is in Holland called by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto to start nuclear program.
---Khan leaves his highly paid job at a Top Dutch Nuclear firm.
---Brings knowledge of Enrichment of uranium.
---Starts the A-Bomb Plane.
---Threatened for his life by CIA, MOSAD(Israeli intellegence agency) and RAW(Indian Intellegence Agency).
---Continues the program with very very high secrecy and security.
---Program is so secret that even CIA failed to get details on Nuclear Activities.
---In 1983 Khan was sentenced in absentia for trying to steal enrichment secrets from the Netherlands. He denies the charges, and his conviction was overturned in 1986.
---1984,Pakistan builds Atomic bomb.
---May 1998,India tests it's nuclear Bombs, very next day Pakistan explodes 5 nuclear Bombs
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Pakistan Admits Scientist Sold Centrifuges to Iran's Atom Program

New York Times: A Pakistani official said Thursday that his country's disgraced nuclear scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan, had given centrifuges to Iran, but not with the government's consent. It was Pakistan's first specific public declaration of the nuclear technology that had been sold to Iran, though it stopped short of saying what else had been supplied by Dr. Khan's black-market network. The official, Information Minister Sheik Rashid Ahmed, did not discuss sales to other nations and he reiterated Pakistan's refusal to let foreign investigators interview Dr. Khan.

Pakistan admission of centrifuges to Iran proves Tehran 'lies': opposition

AFP: An Iranian opposition group said Thursday Pakistan's admission its disgraced nuclear hero Abdul Qadeer Khan had sold centrifuges to Iran proved the Iranian regime lied about its nuclear intentions. "Todays acknowledgement by the
government of Pakistan once again reveals the clerical regimes pattern of lies and deception to the world community and as the Iranian resistance had reiterated earlier, leaves no doubt that the mullahs are in pursuit of nuclear weapons," the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said in a statement.

Khan gave Iran machines useable for A-bomb - Pakistan

Reuters: Pakistan acknowledged on Thursday for the first time that a disgraced Pakistani scientist at the centre of a nuclear black market gave Iran centrifuges which can be used to make atomic weapons.
Centrifuges purify uranium for use as fuel in atomic power plants
or bombs. Washington believes Iran's centrifuge programme, which it concealed from U.N. inspectors for nearly two decades, is at the heart of clandestine atom bomb plans.

Pakistan's nuclear hero Khan provided centrifuges to Iran: minister

AFP: Pakistan's disgraced nuclear hero Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan provided Iran with centrifuges but the government was in no way involved in the deal, a cabinet minister said Thursday. "Dr Qadeer has provided Iran with centrifuges but the government of Pakistan had nothing to do with it. He gave them from the black market. Pakistan government was not involved," Information Minister Sheikh Rashid told AFP.

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