Pakistan Extends Scientist’s Detention

A Pakistani scientist suspected of involvement in the international nuclear network once headed by top scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan has been ordered to serve another three months in custody, officials said yesterday (see GSN, July 26).

Mohammed Farooq was of 11 people arrested last year from the Khan Research Laboratories, Pakistan’s top nuclear weapons facility, after Khan confessed to transferring nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea.

Farooq is the only KRL employee to remain in custody, the Associated Press reported. A senior army official said Farooq’s continued detention was needed to allow further investigation, but he declined to elaborate or say what charges have been filed against the scientist (Sadaqat Jan, Associated Press/The Daily Comet, Oct. 24).

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