Khan, who was suspected of personally profiting from his dealings. The explanation was not widely accepted outside Pakistan. He confessed on national television four days later, saying his work was that of a rogue scientist and that his government never approved the sales or transfers of weapons technologies. Shortly thereafter it announced that he had admitted helping the nuclear-weapons programs of Iran, North Korea and Libya. 31, 2004, the government of Pakistan dismissed Dr. Musharraf called this moment a profound embarrassment. “He has stolen some of your nation’s most sensitive secrets and sold them to the highest bidders.” In his own memoir, Mr. 24, 2003, during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. Musharraf in a New York hotel suite on Sept. The great fear was that a terrorist organization such as Al Qaeda would buy or steal the makings of a nuclear weapon.
It discovered a global web of scientists, front companies and factories that it believed had transferred weapons technology to Iran, Libya, South Africa and North Korea. But he remained a scientific adviser to the Musharraf government, and his ability to sell or barter nuclear technology continued.Īn international effort led by British and American intelligence agencies uncovered parts of the Khan network at the start of the 2000s. Khan from his post as the head of the country’s national nuclear laboratory. In March 2001, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, under pressure from the United States, said he had forced Dr.
“I wanted that what happened in 1971 should never be repeated again.” “My objective in making the atomic bomb was that Pakistan becomes safe,” he said. Khan said that he had been motivated by the events of 1971, when Bangladesh, then known as East Pakistan, broke away to become an independent country following a bloody civil war in which Indian forces backed the separatists. In a 2010 interview with Geo TV, a private Pakistani television network, Dr. “For the people of Pakistan he was a national icon.” “This has provided us security against an aggressive, much larger nuclear neighbor,” Mr. Khan’s death, praising him for “his critical contribution in making us a nuclear weapon state.”
Pakistan’s prime minister, Imran Khan, on Sunday said that he was “deeply saddened” by Dr.
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