Bhutto commits to letting IAEA question AQ Khan ("father" of Pakistan's nukes)

[TexasLawyer]

Source: Bureau Report Zeenews

Bhutto commits to letting IAEA question AQ Khan

Washington, Sept 26: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has said that if returned to power, she would allow UN inspectors but not Western powers to question the father of Pakistan`s nuclear bomb.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf`s military regime has refused to grant any access to US officials eager to question nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan since he admitted to passing atomic secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea in a televised confession in February 2004.

Khan was pardoned by Musharraf later that month and has lived under virtual house arrest in Islamabad and makes no public appearances. "He has fallen on his sword and taken the blame," Bhutto said on a visit to Washington as she prepared to head back to Pakistan next month from self-imposed exile in London and Dubai.

"Many Pakistanis are cynical about whether AQ Khan could have done this without any official sanction," she told the Middle East Institute, promising to hold parliamentary hearings on the question if re-elected Prime Minister.



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[Kagemusha]

1. She's desperate. What can you say. She's desperate for power.

The only reason she won't let Western powers question him too is because she'd take political heat for it.