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Friday, November 20, 2009
By Faisal Kamal Pasha
RAWALPINDI: Nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan on Thursday denied talking to a Washington Post correspondent.
In an affidavit submitted to the Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench through Barrister Ali Zafar, Khan said he neither spoke to the Washington Post correspondent nor gave any statement. Justice Nasir Saeed Sheikh of the LHC division bench observed that it is better if both the parties — Khan and the Interior Ministry — themselves settle the security issues of AQ Khan’s free movement.
Otherwise, the court will decide the matter, but the court doesn’t want to discuss a number of delicacies, involving this issue as it would become a part of public record later and would be accessible for everyone. Interior Ministry counsel Ahmar Bilal Sufi pleaded before the court that Khan must be stopped from talking to the media. Sufi also referred to a news item published in The News on November 18.
Upon which the judge told Sufi that why not the Interior Ministry passes an order that no media could talk to Dr Khan? When the counsel insisted that Dr A Q Khan must be stopped from talking to the media, the court said he had already submitted an affidavit to that effect and the Ministry could use that statement.
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