Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto, for the second successive day at a Washington, DC, news conference said that if she returns to power she would make available Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan to the IAEA.
Addressing a reception hosted in his honour by Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan, Syed Munawar Hasan, at Mansoora, Khan and head of Tehrik-e-Tahafuz-e-Pakistan, said that if the nation wanted to get rid of poverty, loot and plunder, unemployment and lawlessness, it should vote for patriotic, honest and competent people in the next elections.
The Pakistan government's plea to restore security protocol for nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan has been rejected by the Lahore High Court.
Pakistan's nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan and his wife have filed an application with the Islamabad high court requesting that they may be allowed to appear in person to pursue their petitions. The new petition came almost three months after the four-year old restrictions on the detained nuclear scientist were relaxed in July and he was allowed to meet his close relatives and friends anywhere in Pakistan.
President Musharraf was reportedly devastated to hear about it.
"Dr Khan is under treatment at his residence and his condition is stated to be critical," a local daily quoted officials of the of an hospital attached to Khan Research Laboratories, formerly headed by Khan, as saying.
He said Pakistani public opinion had made it impossible for Musharraf to impose legal penalties on the scientist.
Visuals of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah scaling the gate of the Naqshband Sahib graveyard and jostling with securitymen deployed there have gone viral.
Pakistan interrogating businessman over nuke links: report
AQ Khan, a controversial scientist known as the father of Pakistan's clandestine nuclear programme, passed away here on Sunday after a brief illness. He was 85.
Khan said Pakistan could have become a nuclear power as early as 1984 but the then President General Zia ul Haq 'opposed the move'.
Since Sunday there have been around 50 such attacks carried out in the province and in one incident in Sibi town attackers targeted an election rally of a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party-backed candidate for the National Assembly in which four people lost their lives and six were injured.
Protesting against enforced disappearances in Balochistan, Abdul Qadeer Baloch, 72, has led a small group that has covered more than 2,000 kilometres on foot, breaking the 84-year-old record set by Mahatma Gandhi during his Dandi march. Hamid Mir reports from Islamabad.
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