 Pakistani judges have ordered a top scientist accused of leaking nuclear technology to remain in custody another three months. Mohammed Farooq was arrested last December along with 10 other people from Pakistan's top nuclear weapons facility, Khan Research Laboratories. The arrests came after the founder of Pakistan's nuclear program — Abdul Qadeer Khan — confessed to selling nuclear weapon secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea. President Gen. Pervez Musharraf later pardoned Khan, and the government has denied any involvement in the leaks. "It wasn't Doc Khan, and it wasn't us. We're still looking for the fallguy culprit." |
Pakistani officials have said that Farooq, an aide to Khan, was a key figure in dispersing nuclear technology secrets on the international black market. He is the only Khan Research Laboratories' employee who remains in custody. On Saturday, a panel of judges decided to keep him in custody another three months, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said. His extended detention was needed for further investigation, said a senior army official, speaking on condition of anonymity. He didn't elaborate. Neither Ahmed nor the army official would say what charges Farooq faced. | They're still working on his sentence. After they decide that, they'll work on the charges and build some evidence against him. |
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