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Pakistan "will not allow" nuclear-secret leaks again, minister says
Feb 8, 2009, 10:32 GMT
Munich - Pakistan will not allow its scientists to leak the secrets of nuclear weapons to other countries, Foreign Minister Makhdoom Qureshi said Sunday, two days after his country released a nuclear scientist who confessed to leaking nuclear secrets.
The release of disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan 'was an executive decision. We have taken all measures, we have broken the network,' Qureshi told the prestigious Munich Security Conference.
'We will not allow it to happen again, we simply cannot afford that,' he said.
Khan was placed under house arrest by the government of former president Pervez Musharraf in 2004 after he made a televised confession for leaking nuclear secrets to foreign countries like Iran, Libya and North Korea. Later he retracted the statement.
On Friday he was released by a Pakistani court, just weeks after the US imposed sanctions on Khan, 12 other individuals and three private companies suspected of nuclear proliferation.
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