Dr abdul qadeer khan death

Abdul Qadeer Khan, revered as the father of Pakistan’s nuclear programme, died on Sunday.

He was lauded in Pakistan for transforming it into the world’s first Islamic nuclear weapons power.

But he was seen by the West as a dangerous renegade responsible for smuggling technology to rogue states.

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The nuclear scientist died at 85 in the capital, Islamabad, after recently being hospitalised with COVID-19.

He was seen as a national hero for bringing the country up to par with neighbours India in the atomic field and making its defences “impregnable”.

But he found himself in the crosshairs of controversy when he was accused of illegally proliferating nuclear