Starting from scratch in 1976, he acquired the technology and knowledge that allowed Pakistan to detonate its first nuclear device in 1998. By Tim Weiner A month before invading Kurdish areas in Syria ...

WHEN INDIA set off a nuclear bomb in the desert of Rajasthan in 1974, describing it implausibly as a “peaceful nuclear explosion”, a young Pakistani metallurgist in the Netherlands was ready to ...

Khan launched Pakistan on the path to becoming a nuclear weapons power in the early 1970s. His family said he died of COVID-19 following a lengthy... ISLAMABAD — Abdul Qadeer Khan, a controversial ...

ISLAMABAD – Abdul Qadeer Khan, a controversial figure known as the father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb, died Sunday of COVID-19 following a lengthy illness, his family said. He was 85. Khan, who ...

Abdul Qadeer Khan, a metallurgist who became known to Western intelligence services as the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb and a worldwide dealer in weapons technology, died Sunday at a hospital in ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Abdul Qadeer Khan, a controversial figure known as the father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb, died Sunday of COVID-19 after a lengthy illness, his family said. He was 85. Khan, who ...

Abdul Qadeer Khan, a metallurgical engineer who put Pakistan on the path to becoming a nuclear weapons power in the early 1970s and became known as the father of his country’s nuclear bomb program, ...

Abdul Qadeer Khan, who confessed four years ago to having run an illicit global nuclear proliferation network, expressed hope that the new government would end his house arrest.

ISLAMABAD — Abdul Qadeer Khan, a controversial figure known as the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, died Sunday of COVID-19 following a lengthy illness, his family said. He was 85. Khan, who ...

Abdul Qadeer Khan, the man known as the father of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program, has died in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, according to the country’s Ministry of Information. He was 85 years ...

Khan launched Pakistan on the path to becoming a nuclear weapons power in the early 1970s. His family said he died of COVID-19 following a lengthy illness. As Editor-in-Chief of our newsroom, I’m ...