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In an exclusive interview with iMediaEthics, Abdul Qadeer Khan, the metallurgist blamed by the West for making Pakistan a nuclear power, condemned inaccuracies in The Atlantic magazine’s November 2005 cover story, which he says falsely accused him of a ‘brazen act of illegality’ when it claimed his Rawalpindi house was “built in blatant disregard of the law.”
Khan told iMediaEthics, a website which advocates for fair journalism, by phone that the report in The Atlantic “is totally rubbish and based on lies by William Langewiesche, who is a liar.” The Bani Gala house in sight of Rawal Lake “is totally a legal construction and there are dozens of houses in the row of my house.”
“The court has requested me not to indulge in such interviews and conflicting debates,” Khan said, “but despite this I would like to say that the writer, William Langewiesche, has been involved for a long time in my character assassination campaign.”
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