A.Q. Khan, Pakistan?s leading nuclear scientist, who confessed to having run a global nuclear-proliferation network, has been under house arrest since 2004.
Pakistan called on the international community to rush aid to some 1 million people left homeless by massive flooding amid forecasts Monday that still more rain would be dumped on the stricken areas in coming days.
The United Nations and other agencies offered aid and helicopters to Pakistan Monday after floods unleashed by a cyclone and days of torrential rain left 1.5 million people devastated.
A.Q. Khan, the scientist who became a national hero for developing Pakistan's atomic bomb and went on to sell nuclear secrets abroad, can leave house arrest to meet with friends and relatives, officials said Monday.
It's not only the Pakistani military and the occasional US Predator drone that has Pakistan-based Taliban looking over their shoulders these days. As a sharp internal rift emerges over attacks on civilians, some are now turning their guns on each other.
Authorities have eased the virtual house arrest imposed on A.Q. Khan, the disgraced scientist who sold Pakistan's nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya, officials said Monday.
As dissatisfaction with President Musharraf rises across Pakistan, the military's influence over the economy has become a focus of anger toward the government.
Pakistan's top court heavily criticised government lawyers Monday for filing "scandalous" material about the country's suspended chief justice, in a fresh blow to President Pervez Musharraf.
Floods unleashed by a tropical cyclone and a week of torrential rain have killed 110 people and affected 1.5 million in southern Pakistan, officials said Monday.
Pakistan's one-day match against India will go ahead despite the increased level of security across Britain.