AQ Khan on Pakistan: Bastards first used us and now playing dirty games with us

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WASHINGTON: In an angry, bitter, self-exculpatory letter he wrote to his wife, Pakistan's nuclear architect A Q Khan has seriously implicated the Pakistani military and the Chinese government in proliferation of nuclear technology and material, and instructed her to take a "tough stand" if Pakistani establishment "plays any mischief with me."

"Tell them the bastards first used us and now playing dirty games with us," Khan concludes in a letter to his Dutch wife Henny, asking her to contact the media, in particular British journalist Simon Henderson, his confidante for many years, in a December 2003 letter.

Henderson, custodian of many of Khan's secrets revealed to him as an "insurance" against harassment or worse by the Pakistani establishment, has periodically leaked them to the western media each time Islamabad has turned the screws on Khan, who has been under house detention and close watch ever since Pakistan's proliferation activities were exposed early last decade.

In the latest such expose, Henderson last week provided Fox News with Khan's letter to his wife in which the nuclear engineer reveals a stunning degree of proliferation between Islamabad and Beijing, evidently with government compliance. Pakistan has insisted that the proliferation was a rogue operation by Khan and the government or the military had nothing to do with it.