New Delhi: Pakistan's Foreign Ministry has issued an unprecedented denial saying no foreigner had access to its nuclear blueprints. The denial came in the wake of reports that Pakistan's nuclear scientist, A Q Khan had sold the digital blueprint of a small nuclear warhead.
The blueprint was discovered on a computer seized from three Swiss brothers accused of smuggling for the network. The warhead design is similar to what Pakistan has.
Until now, A Q Khan has only confessed to transferring sensitive technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea.
Khan is the world's most infamous nuclear scientist disgraced for running a worldwide black market in nuclear weapons and technology.
He has been under house arrest for nearly five years now, though he still maintains that he is innocent of all charges.
It was after a meeting with Musharraf in 2004 that Khan had confessed to peddling nuclear technology to Libya, North Korea and Iran.
He says he believed at that time the admission was in the national interest which is not the case any more evidently. In Pakistan, public opinion has always been in Khan's favour.
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