Khan had commercial contacts with at least 20 different countries and large companies.Pakistani nuclear scientist, Mohammad Quader Hussain claimed that Abdul Qadeer Khan stole his work to make nuclear bombs.
Hussain was quoted as telling the New York Times earlier that his 'liquid centrifuge process' worked and that "in 1980 a colleague (in the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission) told him that A Q Khan, the (then) director of Pakistan Uranium Enrichment Centre, was using his liquid centrifuge process".
The report quoted one of Hussain's colleagues as saying that Khan had entered the PAEC in mid-1970s when he was working on the liquid centrifuge process. Hussain was soon fired from PAEC for complaining that Khan had "stolen his entire work".
Image: Khan appeares on Pakistani state television to confess and apologise for leaking nuclear secrets to other countries, while absolving the government of any responsibility.
Photograph: Mian Khursheed/Reuters.
Also see: 'The ISI planned to hide A Q Khan'
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