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 ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 5 -- Pakistan's president pardoned nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan on Thursday for selling nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya and said the country would ...

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 ...

At the heart of this historic moment was the unparalleled contribution of Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan - the father of Pakistan's nuclear programme. A metallurgist with rare expertise, Dr AQ Khan had a ...

A former officer of the US spy agency CIA, James Lawler, who led some of the most sensitive missions to counter the spread of nuclear weapons, has revealed new details about a covert campaign that ...

Pakistan developed its nuclear arsenal outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and has long been under international ...

KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan. 27 -- Pakistani investigators have concluded that two senior nuclear scientists used a network of middlemen operating a black market to supply nuclear weapons technology to ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The condition of Pakistan's disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan has stabilised after getting treatment for deep vein thrombosis, his wife said on Sunday. Henny Khan ...