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Straw Backs Pakistan’s Handling of Khan Case
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said yesterday that he believed Pakistan was adequately investigating the international nuclear smuggling network formerly headed by top Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan (see GSN, Feb. 14). Following talks with Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and other senior officials, Straw said he was confident in Pakistan’s handling of the case despite its refusal to allow other countries or the International Atomic Energy Agency access to Khan, Agence France-Presse reported. “I have not directly raised the matter with the Pakistanis but we have very substantial confidence in President Musharraf and the Pakistani government about the way in which they are dealing with the issue in the aftermath of Dr. Khan,” Straw said (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, Feb. 14). Meanwhile, Indian intelligence has claimed that several Pakistani scientists covertly traveled to Saudi Arabia in the last few months disguised as participants in the Haj pilgrimage, the Indian newspaper The Statesman reported. The scientists, who stayed in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, went missing for two to three weeks, the Statesman reported. Indian intelligence has also detected movement of several Saudi C-130 transport planes between a Saudi air base and several Pakistani cities, according to the Statesman. Pakistani and Saudi nuclear scientists were in “contact” during this period, the Statesman reported (Arun Anand, The Statesman, Feb. 15).
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