Proliferation watchers have kept track of A. Q. Khan’s activities for about 30 years. In 1979, the Washington Post named him as the Pakistani engineer who had left his position at the uranium ...

WHEN INDIA set off a nuclear bomb in the desert of Rajasthan in 1974, describing it implausibly as a “peaceful nuclear explosion”, a young Pakistani metallurgist in the Netherlands was ready to ...

Abdul Qadeer Khan (undated photo) (epa) NEW YORK, June 7, 2006 -- "Nuclear Jihad," a new documentary by the Canadian film maker Julian Sher, focuses on the nuclear-proliferation activities of A.Q.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Thanks to Paul Kerr at TotalWonkerr for catching this. Dr. A.Q. Khan, who once led ...

Reporting from Istanbul, Turkey, and Islamabad, Pakistan -- A Pakistani court today freed nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan from unofficial house arrest, capping a rehabilitation that began almost from the ...

Khan was lauded for bringing Pakistan up to par with India in the atomic field – Copyright AFP/File Aamir QURESHI Abdul Qadeer Khan, the founder of Pakistan’s ...

A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear-weapons program, has died in Islamabad at the age of 85. Pakistan's PTV state broadcaster announced on October 10 that Abdul Qadeer Khan had died after ...

Former officer in the USA's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John Kiriakou, in a stunning revelation, disclosed that the America had refrained from eliminating Abdul Qadeer Khan, the architect of ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Just last week I described A.Q. Khan, Pakistani nuclear trafficker extraordinaire, as ...

You can hardly blame a Pakistani nationalist for wanting his country to possess nuclear weapons, especially after neighboring India successfully tested its first bomb in 1974. Just three years earlier ...

Pakistan’s High Court freed nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan from house arrest yesterday. The move is certainly controversial as Khan was the point man for a massive nuclear proliferation ring. Khan first ...