It says AP, but the source is Khilafah ...
Intelligence agents have picked up a senior official of Pakistanâs premier nuclear weapons laboratory for questioning, his wife claimed today. The detention of Islam-ul Haq, a principal staff officer for the father of Pakistanâs nuclear program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, comes as Pakistan is investigating allegations its scientists passed on secrets and technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea. Haqâs wife, Nilofar Islam, said her husband was dining with Khan at his home yesterday when two uniformed men, believed to be intelligence agents, told him he was wanted for questioning. Khan informed her after they left with Haq in their custody.
| "Dining with him," huh? So did Qadeer know he was going to be picked up, and he was briefing him? Or did Qadeer know he was going to be picked up and set him up for the intel guys to grab before he could run? |
âWe have had no contact with him,â Islam said. âWe donât know where he is and what he is being asked.â Haq is a director at Khan Research Laboratories, a nuclear weapons facility named after the man considered a national hero for giving Pakistan a nuclear deterrent against arch rival India. Pakistan has rounded up a handful of its nuclear scientists for questioning in recent weeks following allegations of distributing nuclear know-how and technology to countries labelled by the United States as rogue nations or sponsors of terror. Major General Shaukat Sultan, spokesman for Pakistanâs powerful military, said he could not confirm Haq had been picked up, but reiterated standing statements some scientists are being âdebriefed.â Pakistan has denied that Iran, Libya and North Korea have gained secrets or technology from its nuclear program as a matter of government policy, but officials have confirmed that individual scientists acting on their own account may have transgressed that rule. In his first-ever speech to Parliament yesterday, Pakistanâs military ruler President Pervez Musharraf, noted the world suspected Pakistan of being a nuclear proliferator and that the country must show it was a responsible power.
| Does that mean Islam ul-Haq is going down? (Voice with Important Hair: "Only Time Will Tellâ¢!") |
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