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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) – The man who made Pakistan into a nuclear power and later admitted to leaking atomic secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya is going into politics, aiming to shake up the country ahead ...

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 ...

The New Yorker reports that U.S. officials agreed to support Pakistan's pardon of Abdul Qadeer Khan — a scientist who admitted passing nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea — in exchange for ...

Abdul Qadeer Khan is tired of being a scapegoat. The controversial father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb shared hi-tech secrets and equipment with a host of rogue regimes — including North Korea and ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- In the first action from Pakistan's probe into allegations of nuclear proliferation, the government on Saturday fired the revered founder of the country's atomic program from ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Abdul Qadeer Khan spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy loyalty -- writing checks for anything from seminars to friends' weddings -- in a patronage scheme that allowed ...

Abdul Qadeer Khan, 85, Father of Pakistan’s Nuclear Program, Dies Starting from scratch in 1976, he acquired the technology and knowledge that allowed Pakistan to detonate its first nuclear device in ...