Nadeem
06-04-2008, 12:06 PM
Dr. AQ Khan denies passing on nuclear secrets
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LONDON: The founder of Pakistan's nuclear bomb is bristling with indignation, after four years of enforced silence is finally getting a chance to fight back. He has denied passing on nuclear secrets.
Now aged 72 and suffering from prostate cancer, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, regarded as a hero by most of his fellow Pakistanis, wants to set the record straight.
"They [the allegations] are bullshit and concoctions," said Dr Khan from his villa in one of Islamabad's leafiest residential areas, where he remains under house arrest. "Now I have become the black sheep."
In a telephone interview, Dr Khan said the confession had been made "in the national interest" but denied its contents were true. Mysteriously, he said that others "got away scot-free" as a result of him taking all the blame.
Some companies working in the nuclear industry in Europe were involved as suppliers. The businesses, based in Europe's most advanced economies – including the UK, Switzerland, Germany and Holland – provided nuclear technology to Iran and Libya.
"The North Korean programme is totally based on reactor reprocessing plutonium. They had mastered this technology even before we started."
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LONDON: The founder of Pakistan's nuclear bomb is bristling with indignation, after four years of enforced silence is finally getting a chance to fight back. He has denied passing on nuclear secrets.
Now aged 72 and suffering from prostate cancer, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, regarded as a hero by most of his fellow Pakistanis, wants to set the record straight.
"They [the allegations] are bullshit and concoctions," said Dr Khan from his villa in one of Islamabad's leafiest residential areas, where he remains under house arrest. "Now I have become the black sheep."
In a telephone interview, Dr Khan said the confession had been made "in the national interest" but denied its contents were true. Mysteriously, he said that others "got away scot-free" as a result of him taking all the blame.
Some companies working in the nuclear industry in Europe were involved as suppliers. The businesses, based in Europe's most advanced economies – including the UK, Switzerland, Germany and Holland – provided nuclear technology to Iran and Libya.
"The North Korean programme is totally based on reactor reprocessing plutonium. They had mastered this technology even before we started."