A Q Khan’s network is something we want to stop: US

Even as Pakistan's disgraced atomic scientist A Q Khan is hoping that the new government will soon lift restrictions on his movement, a senior US intelligence official has categorically said that the final word on the ‘rogue’ scientist has not been said.

Even as Pakistan’s disgraced atomic scientist A Q Khan is hoping that the new government will soon lift restrictions on his movement, a senior US intelligence official has categorically said that the final word on the ‘rogue’ scientist has not been said.

“We believe that there’s still some issues yet to be resolved with the A Q Khan network,” Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis Charles Allen told lawmakers during a Congressional hearing.

“Fortunately, that network was severely disrupted and most of the people are no longer able to conduct that kind of activity. It was really becoming sort of the one-stop shopping for the provision of nuclear designs and centrifuges, as has been well publicised,” Allen, also the Chief Intelligence Officer of the Department of Homeland Security, said.

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“There are scientists around the world who may hold radical views — the insider threat — who might take materials or other kinds of hard, very complex equipment like centrifuges,” he the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chaired by Senator Jospeh Lieberman.

“We have to have a regime that’s not only here in the United States, which we do have, but worldwide to prevent these kinds of scientists who really become the rogue scientists,” he said.

“A Q Khan became an extraordinary rogue scientist who reached around the world globally and not only in the Middle East but in East Asia, as you are well concerned. A Q Khan is something we want to stop in the future. And it’s going to take great cooperation with all civilized countries,” Allen added.

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