Pak sleuths trace foreign bank accounts of two nuke experts

Hindustan Times ^ | January 25 2004 | NA

[Dog]

Pak sleuths trace foreign bank accounts of two nuke experts Press Trust of India Islamabad, January 25

Foreign bank accounts of two senior Pakistani nuclear scientists, who allegedly received money for passing nuclear technology to Iran, have been traced by investigators even as the government ordered all ministries and departments not to invite Dr AQ Khan, the father of the country's atomic bomb, to any official function.

The foreign bank accounts in which the proceeds from the transfer of some nuclear technology to Iran have been deposited were traced back to at least two senior nuclear scientists, unnamed officials were quoted as saying by local daily The News on Sunday.

These accounts were being operated through a Dubai-based bank, which has already provided the required information to Pakistani authorities.

"It is an open and shut case. Their foreign bank accounts swelled by millions of dollars as the sensitive information and some hardware reached Iran," one official said.

For investigation and security reasons, the government sources have not revealed the names of the scientists involved in the deal. On Saturday the same newspaper hinted at Dr Khan and his close associate Dr M Farooq.

The government has also instructed all ministries and departments not to invite Dr Khan to any official function, the newspaper said.

The decision to allow Dr Khan to continue as an Adviser to the Prime Minister on Scientific Affairs would be taken by President Pervez Musharraf who returned from Davos on Sunday after attending the World Economic Forum.

[Dog]

Two Pakistani scientists sold nuclear secrets and hardware....to Iran.

[Dog]

fyi.

[prairiebreeze]

I'm curious as to when this may have occured, but article doesn't say

Prairie

[swarthyguy]

No dates and no bank name. Ugh!

Should percolate up soon.

[swarthyguy]

Here's something to help you sleep at night.
.....SNip
Mr Khan himself said in a speech to the Pakistan Institute of National Affairs in 1990 that he had shopped around on world markets while developing Pakistan’s nuclear programme.

“It was not possible for us to make each and every piece of equipment within the country,” he said. “We devised a strategy by which we would go and buy everything we needed in the open market.”

After the May 1998 tests resulted in international sanctions, the sense of anti-Western nationalism among Pakistan’s nuclear establishment and the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) grew, Mr Hoodbhoy said. “People in PAEC were saying, If the US imposes sanctions, and the economy collapses, why not sell our bomb and prevent economic collapse?’”

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****>>>Mr Hoodbhoy described the atmosphere at the KRL as “very religiously charged”. “They have, especially over the last decade or so, become much more religious and their attitudes are considerably more anti-Western than 30 years ago,” he said. Mr Khan believed in nuclear defence as the best deterrence. Talking to The News after the 1998 tests, he said Pakistan “never wanted to make nuclear weapons. It was forced to do so”. Mr Hoodbhoy said he espoused Islamic nationalism. “He thinks the bomb is essential to protect Islam against assault from those who hate Islam,” Mr Hoodbhoy said. —AFP

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_26-1-2004_pg7_37

[swarthyguy]

Continuing upon the theme of a Pak without Musharraf, here's an example of what's waiting in the wings.


http://www.kashmirtelegraph.com/0104/three.htm

The Last Emperor - by B. Raman.

>>>>>>>If Musharraf is eliminated before October next, the Chairman of the Senate would take over as the acting President till a Presidential election could be held and Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali would find it difficult to overlook the claims of Gen.Mohamad Aziz Khan, the present Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to take over as the Chief of the Army Staff (COAS).

Of the 30 Lts-General/Generals in the Pakistan Army at present, he is the only one who is clearly identified as a fundmentalist close to the religious fundamentalist as well as the jihadi terrorist organisations. He was the head of the clandestine Army of Islam which was created by Zia and has a long record of close contacts with Al Qaeda and the IIF.

[Dog Gone]

Dr. Khan needs to be introduced to Mr. Noose.

[swarthyguy]

Before or after Omar Sheikh, the mastermind of L'Affaire Pearl? Coming on the second anniversary of the abduction and decapitation soon.

As long as he stays in jail, fine.

Whatever the secrets and intrigue around Pearl, all the information he was killed for is now in the public domain, nukes, missiles, Iran, Libya, NK etc.