Khan, the architect of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme, has nurtured a pathological hatred for India all his life.
Born in Bhopal in 1936, Khan was 16 years old when he chose to migrate to Pakistan in 1952, five years after independence.
He said the communal massacres in Bhopal propelled him across the border to Pakistan, where he decided to devote his energies to getting a good education, which would help him extract his revenge against the country he had abandoned.
Financed and trained by Pakistan's intelligence operatives in Europe, Khan systematically stole classified data and had it shipped back to Pakistan, where it was used to replicate uranium enrichment technology at the Kahuta Research Centre near Islamabad
Image: Supporters of Pakistan Muslim League-N party hold a picture of disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan as they gather near a replica of Chaghi mountain, where the nuclear tests were conducted.
Photograph: Faisal Mahmood/Reuters.
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