AQ Khan spills the beans
Wednesday June 13, 2012
What Malik Riaz shared with Dr Khan during Lawyers' Movement
Ahmad
Noorani
ISLAMABAD:
Renowned nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan has disclosed that Behria Town
Malik Riaz had met him during lawyers’ movement and revealed that he (MR) was
trying his best to broker a deal between deposed Chief Justice and PPP chief
Asif Ali Zardari so that the former will not take the NRO and Swiss money
laundering cases after being restored.
Dr
AQ Khan while talking to this scribe said that sometime in 2008 Malik Riaz came
to his house and disclosed that he was trying to broker a deal between the
deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and PPP chief Asif Ali
Zardari. “Under the deal the deposed judges including Chief Justice Chaudhry
will be restored provided they do not take up the NRO and Swiss cases of Asif
Ali Zardari,” Dr Khan told Malik Riaz. Dr Khan said that Malik Riaz had predicted that
even the deposed Chief Justice could agree on the deal. Dr Khan said that he
later came to know that it was wrong and deposed Chief Justice was not inclined
to broker a deal. “I also know that Dr Faqir Hussain, presently registrar of
Supreme Court, had also advised the deposed Chief Justice that making any such
deal would be a wrong thing and deposed independent judiciary will be restored
one day without any such deals,” Dr Khan said. Dr Khan said that it was in his
notice that Malik Riaz had met the then deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad
Chaudhry at his residence some times to broker this deal but this was presented
in a very negative way on Tuesday.
Dr.
AQ Khan also said Malik Riaz has invited him in an inaugural ceremony some
15-year back. “This was for publicity purpose. I went their and I was shown
some newly built bungalow. Later, in my speech I appreciated the work of
construction as a routine mater” Dr Khan said adding “Later, I came to know
that program was video taped and Behria Town aired my speech of appreciation in
their advertisements for a long time without my permission.” Dr AQ Khan
disclosed that after that ceremony, Malik Riaz gave him a key and said that
this is key of new bungalow which Behria
Town was giving me as a gift.
“Thanks Almighty Allah, I straightforwardly refused. Otherwise, today, he would
have been blackmailing me too,” Dr Khan said. “Despite all this, I always
appreciated social work of any kind when later Malik Riaz built some hospital
and informed me, I appreciated this in one of my columns,” Dr Khan said.
