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Pakistan’s Disgraced A-Bomb Creator Hopes to be Freed
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Apr 02, 2008 04:14pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Thursday, April 3, 2008 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By SALMAN MASOOD
Published: April 3, 2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Abdul Qadeer Khan, the founder of Pakistan’s atomic weapons program who confessed four years ago to having run an illicit global nuclear proliferation network, expressed hope in an interview published Wednesday that the new democratic government would end his house arrest and lift the restrictions on his movements.
In the interview, his first since 2004 when he was put under house arrest in Islamabad, Dr. Khan, 72, bitterly complained about his confinement and what he described as his deteriorating health.
The interview was published by Nawa-i-Waqt, an Urdu-language newspaper based in Lahore, and its sister English-language publication, The Nation. It was unclear precisely when the interview had been conducted and whether it had been done in person or by telephone. Ayesha Khan, one of Dr. Khan’s two daughters, said in an interview on Wednesday evening that there were no signs of her father’s immediate release and that the family had not been approached by any official of the government of Yousaf Raza Gilani, the new prime minister. “Nobody has come to us,” she said.
“The hope has always been there, but we are not holding our breath,” Ms. Khan said when asked if the family was optimistic about the lifting of the restrictions on her father.
Sherry Rehman, the new information minister, could not be reached Wednesday night for comment.
Dr. Khan, a metallurgist known here as the “father of the bomb,” is considered a national hero despite his tearful public apology on state-run television in which he said he sold nuclear technology to several countries. |
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