IHC declares Dr. A.Q Khan a free citizen

ak khan our hero

abay shukar karoo :slight_smile: tum Bhopali’yon mein koi tu mard niklaa :cb:

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AQ Khan was a metallurgist who was able to steal blue prints of European Uranium Enrichment plants where he was working as a translator. He was incorrectly named the father of the bomb. The true father of Pakistani bomb was Zulfiqar Bhutto who was comitted to answer India's bomb. He setup different teams, got funding from Arab nations and really fathered the bomb. He paid for his role by his life. AQ Khan was successful is setting up an smuggling network for importing Nuclear equipment to Pakistan and performed well in managing the KRL organization. The chinese help in making a bomb out of enriched uranium and North Korean and chinese help in providing missiles was also significant.
He worked with the military generals (Zia, Aslam Beg, Hameed Gul, Jehangir Karamat and Musharaf) in exporting Nuclear technology and material to Iran, Libya, North Korea and Saudi Arabia. He could be commended for being a good manager, being the fall guy (fall out of Libya coming out clean with its bomb plans) but a great national hero he is not. The Pakistan atom bomb was a result of many scientists like Munir Khan, Mubarakmand, chinese help and determination by sucessive Pakistani governments from Bhutto onwards. In fact, AQ Khan's role is associated with too many negatives: theft/espionage, smuggling, negative rivalry with PAEC and Munir Khan, personal grandoise and egoism, nuclear prolifiration, selling Iran scrap and discarded plants (P-1), profiteering, etc.

tujhe bada pata hain ki AQ khan mard hain…ki gal hain?

Indians ki boltii band kar'rakhii thee :) Mard tu howa nah .....

wayse proof kisi indian ne he dia tah :D mere kaaN mein

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Isnt it sad that the national hero has been branded a traitor. If a country has a scarcity of national heroes, traitors are made into heroes. What a sad state...

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i bet he will be picked up/assasinated by foriegn agencies!!! as a lesson to others!!!

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Pakistan has not signed the NPT. Pakistan has signed no legal document which states it will not sell nuclear technology. Pakistan has broken no law internationally or domestically in Pakistan.

If there no law is broken, there is no crime. If there is no crime, the man is innocent. and Dr. AQ Khan is a national hero. Regardless of what you expat-Pakistanis think.

Oddly enough you have no issues with the US selling nuclear technology to India. Well done you proud Pakistanis.

badi indians ki baat ko sunne laga hain. kahin kisi indian ne to nahin kuch kar diya tere saath?:wink:

Thumbs up!

That includes you too, in case you forgot :chai:

You are justify selling nuke tec to unstable nations which no question makes the world a much dangerous place because Pakistan hadn't signed a document? This logic is mind numbingly short sighted and narrow. I will kindly describe Pakistan as being in a period of 'rough transition' and bright spots can be hard to find, but to classifying the corrupt Khan as a national hero is pathetic. Don't let nationalism trump humanity.

By this logic, NO country should be supplied weapons of mass destruction and USA and Russia are the biggest exporter of those. Agreed?

WMD's should not be exported. The U.S. does not export WMD (2 decades ago the did export WMD's to Iraq under the guise that they were for medical research). USA and Russia are the biggest arm suppliers, not WMD's.

Looks like good sense has prevailed, and Pakistan govt. has put fresh curbs on AQ Khan - the man responsible for making the world a much more dangerous place through his proliferation of WMD technology to rogue states.

Pak reacts to global concerns, puts fresh curbs on A Q Khan-Pakistan-World-The Times of India

Pak reacts to global concerns, puts fresh curbs on A Q Khan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan government has reportedly put fresh curbs on disgraced nuclear scientist A Q Khan after the world community expressed
serious concerns over setting him free, after nearly five years of house arrest.

The rogue scientist who had confessed to having passed on nuclear know how to Iran, North Korea and Libya is not being given access to visitors and has to notify the government 48 hours in advance before leaving Islamabad.

Sources close to Khan told the Dawn newspaper that a few people met the scientist after the Islamabad High Court declared him a “free citizen” last week, but no one was allowed to enter his residence on Monday.

The court order on Friday effectively ended Khan’s house arrest. The order was issued in the wake of a secret agreement between Khan and the government, the details of which were not made public by the court.

According to US officials, Pakistan has told the United States that it has put restrictions on Khan to prevent him from becoming a renewed nuclear proliferation threat.

An unnamed Pakistani official was quoted by The New York Times as saying that President Asif Ali Zardari had assured the US that Khan “is still restricted in his movement and activities”.

Khan will be barred from “foreign travel, monitored closely, allowed to receive visitors only from an approved list of family and friends and barred from making financial transactions”, the official said.

But despite this US was still skeptical and wanted more as well as “solid assurances” from Pakistan that he (Khan) will not be a threat after his release.

“I’m sure there is more that the Pakistanis can do, and we expect that they will do more to make sure he is no longer a proliferation risk,” a US embassy official said.

“We want to make sure these assurances are solid and we expect them to explain to us how they plan to do so,” the official said.

The official said the US Ambassador here received these assurances from the Pakistani government officials during a meeting over the weekend.

Legal expertssaid unless the secret agreement between the government and Khan is made public, restrictions on the scientist’s movement could be considered as contempt of court because he was allowed by the court to meet anyone and go anywhere he wanted to.

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi too has said that the government reserved the right to appeal against the court’s order.

Reacting to these developments, Khan told Dawn: “If they have a right to contest, I too reserve the right to ask the court to uphold its decision.”

Khan said though restrictions had been tightened, he was allowed to meet only those people who are cleared by security personnel deployed at his residence.

Khan brushed aside the West’s concerns that he could again be involved in nuclear proliferation, saying he had nothing to do with the Khan Research Laboratories, a key organisation in Pakistan’s nuclear programme.

“I have no links with KRL since 2001,” he said. The scientist said he had nothing to do with Pakistan’s nuclear programme and could not work because of his bad health.

“What I was doing in KRL was very sophisticated work and I cannot resume it because it required continuous involvement,” he said.

“Now I am passing my time reading poetry and with my family. I have passed a very difficult time in detention, but now I feel relief as my family is with me.”

Khan was put under house arrest in February 2004 and released only after the High court order last week.

He retracted his confession last year and alleged he had been forced by former President Pervez Musharraf to make the statement.

US and Russia especially US are proliferators... Want to do some search?

In a nut shell SECURITY & DIVERSION.

Care to elaborate?

To keep it short here is a quiz for you.

1) Who provided nuke tech to China for its 1964 test and who provided nuke tech to India for its 74 test?

Yes USSR helped China with their program. As far as India is concerned the Atoms for Peace program was abused by India to help build the bomb, this is true. This program was designed to harness nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and after the test of '74 the U.S. placed trade sanctions lasting 25 years. Poor example, but good try.