Source: AFP
Pakistan’s top nuclear authority Saturday rejected claims by disgraced atomic scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan that the army and President Pervez Musharraf sent centrifuges to North Korea in 2000.
Lieutenant General Khalid Kidwai, head of the Strategic Planning Division (SPD), told a select group of reporters there was “enough evidence” about the proliferation network that Khan […]

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Source: Sydney Morning Herald
by Declan Walsh

FOR four years Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb, has lived in the shadows, confined to his home in Islamabad since a tearful televised confession in which he admitted selling nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya.
The 76-year-old scientist has now returned to the spotlight, claiming […]

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Source: International Herald Tribune
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Dozens of Islamists marked the 10th anniversary of Pakistan’s nuclear test on Wednesday by rallying for an end to the house arrest of the man considered the father of the country’s bomb, Abdul Qadeer Khan.
The nuclear scientist was detained in 2004 after admitting to passing nuclear technology to Iran, Libya […]

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Source: Reuters
ISLAMABAD, April 2 (Reuters) - Pakistan’s disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan termed his detention as “irrational” in a newspaper interview published on Wednesday, and said he hoped the new government would free him soon. Khan was put under house arrest by President Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad after an investigation was launched in late […]

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Source: Xinhua
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s nuclear program founder Abdul Qadeer Khan, who is suffering from cancer, was taken to hospital on Wednesday after his health was deteriorated, a military spokesman said.
Khan, who was diagnosed as prostrate cancer in 2006, was shifted to a hospital in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad for medical treatment, said the spokesman on condition […]

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Source: Mercury News
PALO ALTO, California—Four years after Pakistan’s top nuclear scientist confessed to leaking weapons technology to North Korea, the North Koreans have denied receiving any such help, an American researcher said.
The North Koreans dismissed the confessions from Pakistan, saying, “That’s your story,” researcher Siegfried Hecker said.
The North Koreans also told Hecker they had nothing […]

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