AQ lawyer blasts govt call for more curbs

ISLAMABAD - “We have mistreated our heroes in the past and now the government wants to punish Dr AQ Khan after disgracing him for years”, lawyer of the country’s top nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan Tuesday told Islamabad High Court (IHC).

Barrister Iqbal Jaffery, the counsel of Dr Khan, stated this while reacting to a government reply in the court on the issue of his client’s detention, seeking tight restrictions on father of Pakistan’s nuclear programme in response to a court challenge by his wife demanding immediate release of her husband from house arrest.

“The reply filed by the government is a pack of lies, false and irresponsible,” Barrister Jaffery stated before a single bench of IHC headed by Chief Justice Sardar Muhammad Aslam who is seized with the matter under Article 199 of the Constitution through a habeas corpus petition filed by Mrs Honey Khan, wife of the detained top scientist.