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Pakistan Continues Nuclear Scientist’s Six-Week Detention
The continued detention of Pakistani nuclear scientist Mohammed Farooq has raised concern among family members and Pakistani opposition lawmakers that Farooq will be blamed for recent allegations of Pakistani nuclear proliferation, the Los Angles Times reported today (see GSN, Jan. 6). Pakistani military intelligence agents took Farooq into custody on Dec. 1, soon after news reports came out that Pakistan might have provided Iran with nuclear weapons technology, according to the Times. On the day after Farooq’s arrest, his wife was allow to visit him briefly at an office of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency in Rawalpindi, outside of Islamabad. The next day, Farooq warned his family not to go to court seeking information on him, the Times reported. In the past six weeks Farooq’s family has had no contact with him. This month, Farooq’s wife filed a petition seeking information on her husband’s continued detainment, with a judge expected to hear the case tomorrow, according to the Times. In addition, opposition lawmakers in Pakistan have called on President Pervez Musharraf to allow parliament to investigate the allegations of possible nuclear proliferation. “Inquiries under Musharraf have lost their credibility,” said Senator Farhatullah Babar, a spokesman for exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. “The judiciary has been subverted. It should be an inquiry by parliament so that the scientists are not scapegoated,” Babar said (Paul Watson, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 14).
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