Source: AT
A pair of Pakistani lawmakers have demanded a “thorough probe” into the proliferation of “several tons” of nuclear materials to Iran, Libya and North Korea under the country’s former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, who was in power from 1999 until 2008.
Pakistan People’s Party Senator Farhatullah Babar and Jamiat-e-Ulama-e-Islam’s Hafiz Hamdullah said last week in the country’s upper house that the father of its nuclear program, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, was not a lone actor in the “global spread of nuclear technology” from Pakistan, despite making a confession to that effect in 2004. Several others “characters” played a major role in facilitating the materials’ proliferation, they claim, but were spared by the president. Babr and Hamdullah are calling for the “entire network” of proliferators to be exposed irrespective of their status and standing.