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Dr Khan suffers heart attack
Karachi Dawn Web Site ^
| 02/16/2004
| Our Staff Reporter
Posted on 02/15/2004 10:40:41 PM PST by SubMareener
ISLAMABAD, Feb 15: The founder of country's nuclear programme, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, has suffered a heart attack, sources in the KRL hospital told Dawn on Sunday.
In view of his poor cardiac condition, a heart specialist along with a cardiac machine was secretly sent to his residence from the KRL hospital last Sunday, the sources said.
They said Dr Khan had been suffering from pain in his left hand since being questioned by an intelligence agency for his alleged involvement in transferring nuclear technology.
The sources said Dr Khan was under treatment at his residence and his condition was stated to be critical. Dr Khan, they said, had never suffered from cardiac complaint before this incident, but he often felt pain in his left hand whenever he took extra burden and pressure of official work.
"Dr Khan was holding his left hand when he was shown the last time on television after his meeting with President Gen Pervez Musharraf," the sources said.
The source said the KRL founder had been placed in what they said either "protective custody or house arrest" since December and that he had been asked to avoid appearing at public places and functions.
Dr Khan has also been prohibited from attending telephone calls and giving any statement to the press. Meanwhile, family members of some detained KRL officials told Dawn that the condition of Dr Khan and his wife was quite bad. "Both of them are suffering from high blood pressure and they have been given high potency doses by the doctors of the KRL hospital, they said. Talking to Dawn, Director General ISPR Maj Gen Shaukat Sultan said: "I have no information that Dr Khan is in a serious condition."
Responding to a question about 'debriefing', he said no other official of the KRL had been called for this purpose nor any detained official had been released in the recent past.
When contacted, a senior director of the hospital, Dr Ali Raza Kazmi, refused to comment on the issue saying that he had no information that a cardiologist and a cardiac machine had been sent to the residence of Dr Khan from the hospital.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abdulqadeerkhan; khan; krl; nuclear; pakistan; proliferation
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Comment #21 Removed by Moderator
To: Simcha7
Boker tov!
I've noticed that all of the Dems have been uncharacteristically quiet. I think they know that this story is radioactive in more ways than one.
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posted on
02/15/2004 11:32:04 PM PST
by
Cap Huff
To: EDINVA
It's alleged if the circumstances under which he "confessed" are as shady as they are. He clearly cut a deal with Musharraf to take responsibility and thus absolve the government of an embarrassing situation. Perhaps they've now decided he's to big a liability and maybe he will catch a "heart attack" to the left temple one of these days.
To: Cap Huff; SubMareener; Dog; Coop; swarthyguy; spetznaz
--Boot Hill (appropriately)
To: mvonfr
A civil war in Pakistan is a frightening possibility. The place is a powderkeg. What if some crazies take advantage of the chaos and launch a nuclear attack against Israel or India?
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posted on
02/16/2004 2:05:52 AM PST
by
Wilhelm Tell
(Lurking since 1997!)
To: Wilhelm Tell
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posted on
02/16/2004 2:15:54 AM PST
by
Cap Huff
To: SubMareener
Somebody may be getting cold feet:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_574426,0000.htm AQ Khan ailing, but officials deny heart attack 'rumours'
Associated Press
Islamabad, February 16
Senior Pakistani officials on Monday denied as rumours that country's top nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan suffered a heart attack, but admitted that Khan is in "very bad" health and seeking medical attention.
Abdul Qadeer Khan, the 68-year-old father of the country's nuclear programme -- now under house arrest after admitting he leaked weapons technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea -- was visited by a senior cardiologist at his home on Sunday, said Hussam ul-Haq, the head of a committee seeking Khan's release.
"His health is very bad. He is not in good shape," ul-Haq said. Two senior government officials, however, denied rumours that the scientist had suffered a heart attack.
"It is absolutely wrong," army spokesman Major General Shaukut Sultan said. "He was taken to a hospital for a routine checkup."
Pakistan Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said Khan was "fine" and also denied he had suffered a heart attack.
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posted on
02/16/2004 2:41:37 AM PST
by
Cap Huff
To: SubMareener
CIA specialty? Tin foil anyone?
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posted on
02/16/2004 2:58:53 AM PST
by
Finalapproach29er
("Don't shoot Mongo, you'll only make him mad.")
To: SubMareener
LOLOL......he's being Fosterized.
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posted on
02/16/2004 4:12:11 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
To: SubMareener
I feel for him but I can't reach him.
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posted on
02/16/2004 8:23:48 AM PST
by
mass55th
To: freebilly
"He might be about to commit ArKHANcide...."
ROFL!!! Good one!
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posted on
02/16/2004 8:24:41 AM PST
by
mass55th
To: SubMareener
"Kaaaaaahn!"
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posted on
02/16/2004 8:26:54 AM PST
by
Jim Cane
To: Jim Cane
Dead men tell no tales...
Be Seeing You,
Chris
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posted on
02/16/2004 8:53:02 AM PST
by
section9
(Major Motoko Kusanagi says, "I have John Kerry's medals at my blog. Click on the pic!")
To: Wilhelm Tell
A civil war in Pakistan is a frightening possibility. The place is a powderkeg. What if some crazies take advantage of the chaos and launch a nuclear attack against Israel or India?Exactly. And you don't even need "some crazies": the place if full of AQ-connected people; many are in ISI. A nuclear attack as you describe is consistent with AQ strategy of trying to start a large scale war.
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posted on
02/16/2004 8:59:59 AM PST
by
mvonfr
To: SubMareener
I think he and his family should be made available as "shields" in countries that are likely to be nuked at the first sign of trouble if he lives through this.
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posted on
02/16/2004 9:03:39 AM PST
by
freeangel
(freeangel)
To: hotpotato
Musharaf's days are very much numbered already. The radical Muzzies in the ISI and elsewhere will get him sooner, rather than later, IMO. I just hope we know where the nukes are and have enough boots on the ground to get them out before they get snatched and given to terrorists.
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posted on
02/16/2004 9:05:34 AM PST
by
7.62 x 51mm
(Dogs have masters; Cats have staff...)
To: spetznaz
Pakistan,
The Heart of Darkness. Some muckymuck was on TV talking about the sources of funding that Pak had to develop it's jihadi nukes. Can we hope that some real stinky dirt on the Saudis is going to be coming out. It can't be hidden much longer, can it?
This will not be a quiet election year.
Spring Offensives are due all around; in Irak, Afgha, Pak, by both sides, or more as the case may be.
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