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Appearing on the MSNBC news channel Congresswoman, Jane Harman, said she disagrees with the view that the A Q Khan nuclear network has totally been closed down.
In an interview to the CNN on Sunday, the former Vice President, Dick Cheney, had claimed success of the Bush Administration in closing down this network.
"I disagree," Harman, Chairwoman of House Homeland Security Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment Subcommittee, told MSNBC in her interview.
"I saw the classified evidence when I was Ranking Member on the House Intelligence Committee and I was never persuaded that we totally closed down his international arms bazaar," she claimed.
Harman claimed that Khan's network sold the secret nuclear technology to Iran, Libya, North Korea and Syria. "In Libya, we have shut down, but Iran and North Korea are as dangerous as they are because of the efforts of this man," she said.
"We did arrest a lot of his (Khan's) colleagues. He was under house arrest in Pakistan since 2004, but just a month ago, the Supreme Court of Pakistan let him out from house arrest and we have never been able to question this man and I think in terms of US interests in Pakistan and Afghanistan, it is critical that we question him and that we have assurances that the Pakistanis have him totally monitored so that whatever is left of this network is thoroughly destroyed" Harman said.
"It's not just the actual stuff in Pakistan, but this man was pursued by Europe for stealing nuclear secrets in Europe where he studied and they may call him a hero in Pakistan, but I think he's a pariah internationally," she added.
Last week Harman had introduced a legislation in the House of Representative to put conditions on financial aid to Pakistan, if the Government did not give the US access to interrogate Khan.
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If he is a rogue scientist, then most of the educated individuals and technocrats who teach and sell their knowledge come under the same category. Under tte capitalist form of economy and free trade, countries and their people have the right to buy and sell internationally, it is not the business of the US to tell individuals or nations who to sell what to sell and what prices to charge. The US businesses made billions by selling their secret technology to the world countries, and now it is the turn of countries like India and other technogically advancing countries and their brain powers( as Indians are doing in the US) to do the same whether it is missile tachnolgy, nuclear technology, sattelite communication and what not, stop economic interventions and allow other nations to progress economically. Economic nationalism is not a monopoly of America or Europe or Japan