ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Top Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan has admitted selling nuclear secrets to Iran and Libya, but authorities have yet to decide whether the national hero will go on trial, officials said on Monday.
Khan was sacked as adviser to the prime minister on Saturday and is the main suspect in a two-month investigation into allegations that individuals passed on Pakistan's nuclear weapons secrets to countries including Libya, Iran and North Korea.
Seven suspects are still under investigation, but senior former military and intelligence officials -- who experts say must have known about Khan's activities -- are not being questioned.
Putting Khan on trial is a sensitive issue in Pakistan, where he is revered as a national hero and the father of not only the country's, but the Islamic world's atomic bomb.
"He (Khan) has admitted these things," said a military official on condition of anonymity, referring to allegations that Khan illegally leaked nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya and possibly North Korea.
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