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Cabinet urges clemency for disgraced nuke architect Pakistan's Cabinet yesterday recommended that the disgraced architect of the country's nuclear program be pardoned following his confession to leaking nuclear secrets abroad, officials said. "The Cabinet recommended to the President to pardon Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan for unauthorised proliferation activities," an official statement said. The Cabinet at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Zafarullah Jamali reviewed the mercy petition of Khan and "decided to forward its recommendations to the president to pardon the scientist," it said. Khan, revered as a hero in Pakistan for founding the country's nuclear program, had begged forgiveness in an extraordinary broadcast televised to the nation on Wednesday where he admitted leaking nuclear secrets overseas. Investigators earlier said Khan had shared sensitive nuclear technology with Iran, Libya and North Korea for more than a decade. The revelations have embarrassed the government of President Pervez Musharraf, a key ally of the United States, which has included Iran and North Korea in its "axis of evil". Pakistan had vehemently denied previous allegations of its involvement in proliferating nuclear technology. Khan stressed in his televised statement on Wednesday that he had acted alone. AFP. |
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