Starting from scratch in 1976, he acquired the technology and knowledge that allowed Pakistan to detonate its first nuclear device in 1998. By Tim Weiner A month before invading Kurdish areas in Syria ...

Abdul Qadeer Khan's wife said the scientist may appeal Monday's ruling, which bars him from speaking about nuclear proliferation and could end his role in throwing more light on Pakistan's murky ...

Khan launched Pakistan on the path to becoming a nuclear weapons power in the early 1970s. His family said he died of COVID-19 following a lengthy illness. As Editor-in-Chief of our newsroom, I’m ...

During his four years under house arrest in Islamabad, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s atomic bomb and self-confessed nuclear black marketeer, was denied visitors and the use of the ...

Abdul Qadeer Khan, Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, died of Covid in 2021. At the time of his death, he was a controversial figure, once a national hero of Pakistan who fell into disgrace ...

Abdul Qadeer Khan, the man called the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb, was freed from house arrest Friday. Khan has been confined to his home since 2004 when he admitted to sharing nuclear secrets ...

Usually, when scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan appeared on Pakistan’s state TV, it was to receive another gold medal for building the country’s nuclear bomb. But last week Khan, a hero to Pakistanis ...

Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan’s proliferation network operated for years before the world fully grasped how far its reach extended. For the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), ...

Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan issues a televised apology in which he admits to passing nuclear secrets to other countries: Iran, Libya, and North Korea. The widely viewed statement by ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's disgraced scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan said on Friday that he took the blame four years ago for selling nuclear secrets in exchange for assurances that were never ...