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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abdul Qadeer Khan's sale of nuclear technology to rogue nations is no longer a secret. The Pakistani physicist, revered in his homeland as the father of the Islamic bomb, was forced to confess his ...

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 ...

A.Q. Khan, a Pakistani engineer who bought and sold nuclear knowledge and supplies in the international black market, appears to be safe from prosecution. Pakistan isn't pursuing charges against him, ...

Abdul Qadeer Khan, celebrated as the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme but accused of smuggling technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya, died on Sunday at 85. The nuclear scientist, who ...