WASHINGTON, May 17: Nuclear scientist Dr
Abdul Qadeer Khan has
vigorously defended the
program as sparing his country
the fate of Iraq or Libya.
Writing in a US magazine,
Abdul Qadeer Khan said that
Pakistan's nuclear weapons had
prevented war with historic
rival India, which he accused of
pursuing a "massive program"
due to ambitions of superpower
status, reports AFP from Washinton.
"Don't overlook the fact that no nuclear-capable country has been subjected to aggression or occupied, or had its borders redrawn. Had Iraq and Libya been nuclear powers, they wouldn't have been destroyed in the way we have seen recently," Khan said.
