Pakistan Nuclear weapons would not have been possible without AQ Khan.Period.
Anyone who has read even superficially(but seriously) regarding this subject will reach the same conclusion.
Even Iran and N Korea would not have had a programme without AQ Khan.
Its pretty clear he essentially used the proceed from technology transfer to fund Pakistan enrichment programme, Nuclear weapon programme and Missile programme.
He organized the international network that sourced the precision equipment and parts required through mainly Dutch and German companies that has allowed a poor and technologically challenged country like Pakistan to develop these technologies.
His role was instrumental. When he says its his Nuclear programme. He is literally correct.
If you have any doubts search the WIKILEAKS cable on him.
The American are obsessed with him. He more then anyone else has broken the Nuclear Monoply.
His every press statement is carefully monitored and reported back to washington.
Without a Nuclear programme Pakistan would definitely have looked like Iraq maybe Sierra Leone.
Go he the NSA website in GWU in the 80's Indians were very open to a first strike to take down all of Pakistan Nuclear sites.
You could say his dealing with Libyans, Irani or N koreans was unnecessary but their was no other way to generate the funding and get the technologies required. Its clear that even though the Generals signed of most of these deals were engineered by AQ Khan.
He is comparable to Carl Fuchs a German Communist immigrant who worked with Manhattan project who leaked he technology to both the United Kingdom and USSR. In fact his contribution relatively is far greater.
But Pakistanis bourgeois are generally a degenerate lot who like barkay baz like Mushi.
Or for that matter "Dr" Smar Mubarik mand who will make billion of barrels of oil.
I am sure some of you also believe the baloney that its actually Mubarakmand who made Pakistan a Nuclear power :lol:.
Breathtaking idiocy.
Or how about useless windbags like Pervez Bayhood boy, who cant even run their department adequately but finds the time to pontificate endlessly.
Any one who practically contribute get short shifted and have scorn .poured on them.
I genuinely think AQ Khan should have stayed in the Netherland.
Can you imagine he was acually taken to the airport to be sent to the Americans by Mushi but was saved in the last moment by Jamali.
And these APML low lives and Mushi chamcha No.1 Zaid Hamid have the gall to come here and comment. Astonishing.