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Pakistan detains aide to father of atom bomb ISLAMABAD, Sunday (Reuters) Authorities have detained a key aide to the father of Pakistan's atom bomb for questioning as they investigate reports of the possible transfer of nuclear technology to Iran, officials said on Sunday. Pakistan has questioned Abdul Qadeer Khan, revered as a national hero for developing the nuclear device, and several of his colleagues in recent weeks after a U.N. nuclear agency began a probe into possible links between the Pakistani and Iranian nuclear programmes. A senior government official said Islam-ul-Haq, Khan's principal secretary, was detained for questioning on Saturday evening in Islamabad. "He was rounded up in connection with the probe of the Iranian nuclear programme," said the official, who asked not to be named. Pakistan, a key ally in the U.S.-led war on terror, says some of its scientists may have been driven by "personal ambition or greed" to export technology to Iran but denies the government itself was ever involved in such technology transfer. The detention of Haq came hours after President Pervez Musharraf said Pakistan faced serious accusations of spreading terrorism and nuclear technology. |
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