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Reports on the piece of evidence to the issue of the peddling of advanced nuclear technology by scientists at the secret Abdul Qadeer Khan Research Laboratories in Pakistan. Circulation of the sales brochure of the laboratory; Three-decade long project to build a nuclear stockpile of enriched uranium by Pakistan; Emergence of the country as the intellectual and trading center of a loose network of hidden nuclear proliferators.

Focuses on the U.S. and the issue of nuclear nonproliferation. How lines have blurred as nuclear technology has spread; Suggestion that the President George W. Bush administration has sent conflicting signals about what it will do if diplomacy fails to disarm Iran and North Korea; Reference to Israel, India and Pakistan and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty; Comments of analysts; Question of how far the Europeans are willing to let the Iranians go in developing a civilian nuclear capability that could be converted to military use; Outlook.

Reports that, roughly a year after Libya disarmed and Pakistan put Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan under house arrest, the intelligence agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are still far from fully understanding Khan's atomic black market. Background on the rogue nuclear network led by Khan, chief architect of Pakistan's bomb; How the inquiry into Khan's global enterprise has been hampered by discord between the U.S. President George W. Bush administration and the IAEA; Khan's role as mastermind of the largest illicit nuclear proliferation network in history; Concerns; Outlook. INSET: A Nuclear Network Partly Revealed.

Discusses the concern of Salahuddin Khan, owner of Good Looks Fabrics and Tailors store in Islamabad, Pakistan, about the business implications of having Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan as a regular customer. Abdul's confession to sharing nuclear technology with Iran, North Korea, and Libya; American investigators' discovery of a plastic bag from Salahuddin's Islamabad store in a nuclear weapons facility in Libya; Questions about the store's innocence and how one of its shopping bags ended up in Libya.

Investigates the proliferation of nuclear technology by Pakistan's founder of its nuclear program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, to Iran, Libya, and North Korea. Aspects of Khan's involvement at Khan Research Laboratories; Details of Khan's activities abroad in Iran, North Korea, and Libya; Efforts of American officials to investigate the proliferation by Khan; Statements released by the government of Pakistan and possible address of the nation by president Musharraf.

Reports on the controversy over Pakistan's assertion that the founder of the country's nuclear program has secretly shared technology with several countries. Confession of scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan; Allegations on Khan's conspiracy to put the army in good light; Incrimination of the head of security of at the Khan Research Laboratories.

Reports that Mirza Aslam Beg has denied any transfer of technology out of Pakistan to Iran. Decision to take stern action against any scientists found guilty of proliferation; Assertions of Beg; Analysis of the comments of Beg.