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Pakistan pardons nuke spearhead

4 scientists, officials held

REUTERS, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Pakistan's president has pardoned its top nuclear scientist who admitted leaking nuclear arms secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea and says he will not allow international supervision of Pakistan's atomic programme.
’’There is a written mercy appeal from his side and there is a written
pardon from my side," President Pervez Musharraf told a news briefing, referring to top scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan who made a televised confession to nuclear proliferation on Wednesday.
General Musharraf announced his final decision following his cabinet's recommendation to grant clemency to the scientist. Musharraf also said Pakistan would not hand over documents to UN nuclear watchdog the International Atomic EnergyAgency.
"This is a sovereign country. No document will be given. No independent investigation will take place here."
Pakistani commentators have called for a full investigation into the proliferation scandal, saying Khan has been used as a scapegoat to cover up militaryinvolvement.
Musharraf warned local journalists not to speculate further on the military's role in peddling nuclear secrets, saying it would not be in the national interest.
Khan stunned the nation when he confessed on television to leaking nuclear weapons secrets but Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the UN nuclear watchdog, warned in Vienna that the scientist was "the tip of an iceberg for us" ofillegal trafficking.
In his confession, Khan took full responsibility for the scandal, absolving the government and his fellow scientists of any blame.
But Western diplomats doubt he could have acted alone in leaking nuclear know-how and hardware. Pakistan's nuclear programme, seen at home as a vital deterrent to old enemy India, has been under military control for most of the past 28 years.
Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the UN nuclear watchdog, warned in Vienna that the scientist was "the tip of aniceberg for us" of illegal trafficking.
Musharraf said documents from more than two months of investigations would not be handed over, although he did not rule out cooperation with the IAEA if its officials wanted to travel to Pakistan to discuss the casein more detail.
When asked what Khan's motivation was for illegally peddling nuclear secrets abroad, Musharraf replied: "Money, obviously."
He also explained why Khan had been given so much independence in his pursuit of a nuclear bomb from the 1970s.
"You want to go forward and be a nuclear state," he said.
"One cannot be that intrusive for fear that what you desire may not be accomplished. They were the complexities of the time."
He repeated earlier statements that Khan, and not the government or the military, were to blame.
"All the proliferation unfortunately was under the supervision and orders of Dr A.Q. Khan. No government official or military man wasinvolved."
He said former army chiefs, Generals Aslam Beg and Jehangir Karamat, had been questioned but were cleared.
Meanwhile, the Pakistan government has arrested four scientists and security officials, including the personal secretary of father of the country's nuclear bomb A Q Khan, on charges of transferring nuclear technology to North Korea, Iran and Libya.
The government has decided to charge Farooq Ahmad, regarded as a close friend of Khan, and Nazir, a top official of Khan Research Laboratories along with Khan's personal Secretary Major (retd) Islamul Haq and a retired Brigadier and security official of KRL, Sajawal, according to local television reports.