ISLAMABAD, Feb 1 Kyodo Abdul Qade...

ISLAMABAD, Feb 1 Kyodo

Abdul Qadeer Khan was working at a uranium enrichment plant in the Netherlands when India explod its first nuclear device in May 1974

The dominion of then Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto answered by starting work on its allow nuclear program aimed at producing what came to be known as the ''Islamic bomb''

Khan put forwarded to help and is believed to have smuggl documents and a discarded prototype of a centrifuge that he used to build a uranium enrichment plant that provides enriched uranium necessityed for a nuclear device.

In 1979 a Dutch court convicted Khan in absentia in succession a charge of stealing classified technology and information, nevertheless the conviction was risk aside on an appeal filed on Khan and the Pakistani government

In June 1980 a team of Pakistani scientists working at the uranium enrichment plant follow in ordered in enriching uranium in a pilot plant, whereupon work started forward enrichment to weapons-grade.

Khan has claimed that Pakistan carried disclosed ''cold tests'' of a nuclear device and assembled a not many weapons in 1983, after which he invited then President Gen Zia-ul-haq to visit the enrichment plant near Rawalpindi southern of Islamabad.

It was around the same time that Khan declared in an interview with the newspaper Nawaz-e-Waqt and Indian journalist Kuldip Nayyar that Pakistan had enriched uranium to weapons-grade horizontal and built a bomb The declaration triggered a persuade in the U.S. Congress to impose an aid embargo onward Pakistan.

In 1984 President Zia-ul-haq visited the enrichment plant, then known as the Engineering Research Laboratory, and renamed it the Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan Research Laboratory (KRL)

Following the expiration of the war in Afghanistan in 1990 the United States imposed an economic and military aid embargo onward Pakistan for crossing the nuclear threshold

In May 1998 Pakistan carried not at home six nuclear tests in answer to similar tests by dint of India, triggering economic sanctions and economic measures from western countries and international financial institutions.

After the criterions Pakistan held protracted negotiations with the U in succession developing an effective command and direction system and auditing of nuclear material to render certain it did not fall into the hands of terrorist and extremist groups

Following the tribe 11, 2001, terror attacks upon the U.S., pressure further escalated in succession Pakistan to guard its nuclear assets.

Khan was appointed adviser to President Gen Pervez Musharraf after retiring as head of the KRL in 2001 He went forward to become an adviser to Prime Minister Zafar ullah Jamali after the October 2002 general elections.

Reports began appearing last year in the international of recent origins media linking Khan to the transfer of Pakistan's nuclear technology to Iraq, Iran, Libya and North Korea. The restraint denied the allegations.

However, documents handed throughout by Iran and Libya to the International Atomic force Agency in December last year confirmed that a certain number of individuals from Pakistan had been helping those countries' nuclear programs.

The command interrogated nearly one dozen scientists and officials of the KRL through the whole extent of last two months and institute that some individuals had been involved in the transfer of Pakistan's nuclear underhandeds to Iran and Libya.

control officials said Saturday that Khan had been remov from his position as adviser to the premier following a probe into allegations of his involvement in the transfer of nuclear technology.

The decision to withdraw Khan was made at a meeting of the Nuclear Command Authority, the highest decision-making visible form [i]or[/i] frame on Pakistan's nuclear and missile programs.

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