Ex-Pakistan Army Chief General Jehangir Karamat took 3 million dollars and Gen Zulfiquar Khan took half a million dollars and diamond and ruby sets for wife from North Koreans in return to Nuclear Technology.
Pakistan Army(headache of the world) is commited to bringing in unstability in the world and the spread of jihad and violence.
ISLAMABAD: Even though Pakistan has condemned the latest North Korean nuclear test, it was actually Pakistan which had been blamed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United States in 2004 for alleged proliferation of nuclear know-how to at least three states - North Korea, Iran and Libya. Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned (through an official press release) the North Korean nuclear test, saying, “Pakistan regrets that the Government of DPRK has conducted underground nuclear test”. However, the fact remains that the IAEA had traced back the technology behind the North Korean nuclear capability to Dr AQ Khan. As per the IAEA findings, as many as two planes a month used to arrive in Pakistan from Pyongyang during the late 1990s, bringing the missile technology in exchange for the nuclear technology and the know-how to use centrifuges that could enrich uranium for nuclear weapons. The nuclear scam involving Pakistan in fact stemmed froma classified letter written by the IAEA to the Pakistan government about the extent to which the KRL had provided North Korea with nuclear technology and expertise to produce uranium- based nuclear weapons.
The IAEA had sought inquiry into allegations that North Korea’s assistance to Pakistan in the development of its missile capability has been as a quid pro quo for the KRL’s assistance to North Korea in development of its nuclear capability. The letter was written following international media reports that one of the nuclear devices tested by Pakistan at Chagai in May 1998 was of North Korean origin and that the Korean nuclear scientists were present during the testing. Although refuted strongly by the Pakistani foreign office as a pack of lies, these reports claimed the US has acquired irrefutable documentary evidence of a trilateral nuclear cooperation involving Pakistan, Iran and North Korea to produce Scud-C and Nodong missiles. The evidence was reportedly extracted from a group of 20 senior North Korean scientists who had defected to the US in March 2003. Among those debriefed by the CIA and the USWeapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation and Arms Control Center at a safe house in Washington, was the father of North Korean nuclear program, Dr KyongWon-ha. Debriefings of Kyong and some other nuclear scientists gave the CIA an exceptional insight into North Korea’s nuclear capabilities and the involvement of senior Pakistani nuclear scientists. Information provided by North Korean scientists aside, the CIA had first suspected the DPRK’s involvement in Pakistan’s nuclear and missile programme after the June 9, 1998 mysterious murder (in Islamabad) of Kim Sin-ae, the wife of Kang Thae Yun, economic counselor in the North Korean embassy in Pakistan.
According to international media reports, the Americans believed that Kim was killed on purpose - probably by her own government - because she was spilling secrets about themissile and nuclear programs of Korea besides planning to defect. She was reportedly killed after she had approached the British MI- 6 in Islamabad, wishing to defect in exchange for sharing nuclear secrets. Thae Yun and his wife, who were quite close to Dr Qadeer Khan and lived in the same neighbourhood, used to receive North Korean guests who worked as technicians at the KRL. International pressure coupled with these media reports finally forced the Musharraf regime to form a special inquiry team of senior military officials from the Inter-Services Intelligence and the Strategic Planning Division to investigate allegations against senior scientists, with an emphasis on events that took place in late 1980s and early 1990s. Dr Khan and 25 of his associates at the KRL; including scientists, engineers and security personnel; were interrogated.
After the inquiry team submitted its findings to Gen (R) Musharraf, Dr Khan appeared on the state-run Pakistan Television on February 4, 2004, confessed to running a proliferation ring and transferring technology to North Korea and Iran and sought an apology from the nation. He was granted presidential pardon a day later – on February 5, 2004 and the case was closed. As Dr Khan was placed under house arrest by the Musharraf regime, his family circles alleged that he was made a scapegoat. They argued that nuclear proliferation could not have taken place without the sanction of the security establishment since it was almost impossible for a few individuals to break the multi-layered, foolproof security and monitoring system at the KRL and smuggle out sensitive material. As Khan was finally released from house arrest by the PPP government following the 2008 elections, he alleged that North Korea had received centrifuges from Pakistan in a 2000 shipment that was supervised by the Musharraf-led establishment.
He told The Associated Press in an interview on July 5, 2008 that the uranium enrichment equipment was sent from Pakistan in a North Korean plane which was loaded under the supervision of Pakistani security officials. But Dr Khan’s claim contradicted his 2004 confession that he was solely responsible for spreading nuclear technology to North Korea, Iran and Libya. Dr Khan said the Army had “complete knowledge” of the shipment of used P-1 centrifuges to North Korea and that it must have been sent with the consent of Gen (R) Musharraf, the then- Army chief. Musharraf’s spokesman, Rashid Qureshi, rejected Dr Khan’s claims. “I can say with full confidence that it is all lies and false statements,” he said.Asked why he had taken sole responsibility for the nuclear proliferation, Dr Khan said that he had been persuaded by friends like Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain that it was in the supreme national interest. “In return, I had been promised complete freedom, but that promise was never honoured”.
Gen. Kayani is rumoured to have given North Koreans uranium for recent Tests because the Americans are not paying any more for Pakistan Army war machine.
A South Korean nuclear scientist believes that Pakistan probably supplied both the nuclear technology as well as enriched uranium to North Korea which allowed the reclusive country to develop and test nuclear weapons. A Q Khan is the central character in this nuclear proliferation activities.
Pakistan Army(headache of the world) is commited to bringing in unstability in the world and the spread of jihad and violence.
ISLAMABAD: Even though Pakistan has condemned the latest North Korean nuclear test, it was actually Pakistan which had been blamed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United States in 2004 for alleged proliferation of nuclear know-how to at least three states - North Korea, Iran and Libya. Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned (through an official press release) the North Korean nuclear test, saying, “Pakistan regrets that the Government of DPRK has conducted underground nuclear test”. However, the fact remains that the IAEA had traced back the technology behind the North Korean nuclear capability to Dr AQ Khan. As per the IAEA findings, as many as two planes a month used to arrive in Pakistan from Pyongyang during the late 1990s, bringing the missile technology in exchange for the nuclear technology and the know-how to use centrifuges that could enrich uranium for nuclear weapons. The nuclear scam involving Pakistan in fact stemmed froma classified letter written by the IAEA to the Pakistan government about the extent to which the KRL had provided North Korea with nuclear technology and expertise to produce uranium- based nuclear weapons.
The IAEA had sought inquiry into allegations that North Korea’s assistance to Pakistan in the development of its missile capability has been as a quid pro quo for the KRL’s assistance to North Korea in development of its nuclear capability. The letter was written following international media reports that one of the nuclear devices tested by Pakistan at Chagai in May 1998 was of North Korean origin and that the Korean nuclear scientists were present during the testing. Although refuted strongly by the Pakistani foreign office as a pack of lies, these reports claimed the US has acquired irrefutable documentary evidence of a trilateral nuclear cooperation involving Pakistan, Iran and North Korea to produce Scud-C and Nodong missiles. The evidence was reportedly extracted from a group of 20 senior North Korean scientists who had defected to the US in March 2003. Among those debriefed by the CIA and the USWeapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation and Arms Control Center at a safe house in Washington, was the father of North Korean nuclear program, Dr KyongWon-ha. Debriefings of Kyong and some other nuclear scientists gave the CIA an exceptional insight into North Korea’s nuclear capabilities and the involvement of senior Pakistani nuclear scientists. Information provided by North Korean scientists aside, the CIA had first suspected the DPRK’s involvement in Pakistan’s nuclear and missile programme after the June 9, 1998 mysterious murder (in Islamabad) of Kim Sin-ae, the wife of Kang Thae Yun, economic counselor in the North Korean embassy in Pakistan.
According to international media reports, the Americans believed that Kim was killed on purpose - probably by her own government - because she was spilling secrets about themissile and nuclear programs of Korea besides planning to defect. She was reportedly killed after she had approached the British MI- 6 in Islamabad, wishing to defect in exchange for sharing nuclear secrets. Thae Yun and his wife, who were quite close to Dr Qadeer Khan and lived in the same neighbourhood, used to receive North Korean guests who worked as technicians at the KRL. International pressure coupled with these media reports finally forced the Musharraf regime to form a special inquiry team of senior military officials from the Inter-Services Intelligence and the Strategic Planning Division to investigate allegations against senior scientists, with an emphasis on events that took place in late 1980s and early 1990s. Dr Khan and 25 of his associates at the KRL; including scientists, engineers and security personnel; were interrogated.
After the inquiry team submitted its findings to Gen (R) Musharraf, Dr Khan appeared on the state-run Pakistan Television on February 4, 2004, confessed to running a proliferation ring and transferring technology to North Korea and Iran and sought an apology from the nation. He was granted presidential pardon a day later – on February 5, 2004 and the case was closed. As Dr Khan was placed under house arrest by the Musharraf regime, his family circles alleged that he was made a scapegoat. They argued that nuclear proliferation could not have taken place without the sanction of the security establishment since it was almost impossible for a few individuals to break the multi-layered, foolproof security and monitoring system at the KRL and smuggle out sensitive material. As Khan was finally released from house arrest by the PPP government following the 2008 elections, he alleged that North Korea had received centrifuges from Pakistan in a 2000 shipment that was supervised by the Musharraf-led establishment.
He told The Associated Press in an interview on July 5, 2008 that the uranium enrichment equipment was sent from Pakistan in a North Korean plane which was loaded under the supervision of Pakistani security officials. But Dr Khan’s claim contradicted his 2004 confession that he was solely responsible for spreading nuclear technology to North Korea, Iran and Libya. Dr Khan said the Army had “complete knowledge” of the shipment of used P-1 centrifuges to North Korea and that it must have been sent with the consent of Gen (R) Musharraf, the then- Army chief. Musharraf’s spokesman, Rashid Qureshi, rejected Dr Khan’s claims. “I can say with full confidence that it is all lies and false statements,” he said.Asked why he had taken sole responsibility for the nuclear proliferation, Dr Khan said that he had been persuaded by friends like Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain that it was in the supreme national interest. “In return, I had been promised complete freedom, but that promise was never honoured”.
Gen. Kayani is rumoured to have given North Koreans uranium for recent Tests because the Americans are not paying any more for Pakistan Army war machine.
A South Korean nuclear scientist believes that Pakistan probably supplied both the nuclear technology as well as enriched uranium to North Korea which allowed the reclusive country to develop and test nuclear weapons. A Q Khan is the central character in this nuclear proliferation activities.
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