The Man Who Blew Up The World
This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler
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A.Q. Khan's Export of Technology to the West
Pakistan was just coming out of the Afghan war or Khan Jihad where about 30,000 militants from all across the world were brought into Pakistan. That had a deep impact on the society as well. In this process of saving the world, so to say, Pakistan got radicalized and radicalized in a way that many of the military officers, others started becoming overzealous. And behind that, Ziawulak allowed the two parallel systems to work. He gave all the independence, power, authority, money, resources to a Q Khan. If there is more Western pressure,. I will stop the other program, which in any case, probably in his view was not leading to the bomb
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