Pakistan Fires Top Nuclear Scientist

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Pakistan Fires Top Nuclear
Scientist
Founder of Pakistan Nuclear Program Removed
As Gov't Adviser Amid Probe Into Sale of
Technology

The Associated Press

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Jan. 31 — 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 his job as a top adviser and confined
him to his home.

The moves against Abdul Qadeer Khan considered a national hero for giving Pakistan
its nuclear deterrent against India and the Islamic world its first atomic bomb came as
investigators narrow their pursuit of nuclear scientists' black market ties to Iran and
Libya.

Opposition Islamic parties called the action against Khan baseless and said they
would take to the streets in protest against what they labeled yet another case of
President Gen. Pervez Musharraf caving in to the West.


http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040131_927.html