There is no legal evidence to prove that Libya, Iran, North
Korea, Iraq, Malaysia, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, or Saudi Arabia
received any "nuclear weapons material, know-how, contraband
Pakistani bomb designs or equipment" from the Government of Pakistan,
its military or its nuclear scientists.
The "U.S. or other foreign investigators" have absolutely no legal
right to question or interrogate Pakistan's honorable and respectable
nuclear scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan because there are no Pakistan
or international laws that would allow them to do so. Pakistan never
signed the discriminatory Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and the Fissile
Materials Production Cut-Off Treaty (FMCT). Dr. Khan was not "the
director of the largest smuggling network for nuclear weapons
material and know-how in history." He was the Director of Dr. A.Q.
Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) based in Kahuta, Pakistan. Dr. Khan
and other eminent Pakistani nuclear scientists created Pakistan's
nuclear weapons defense deterrent to protect the Pakistani Nation
from its enemies. Dr. Khan did not indulge in any kind of "illegal
nuclear smuggling." He did not violate any Pakistan or international
laws. He did not commit any crime. Therefore, "the largest smuggling
network for nuclear weapons material and know-how in history" is a
fabricated, defamatory expletive and a malicious, racist slur.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Dr.
Mohamed ElBaradei has pointed out in his interview of 27 July 2004
with Mustafa Abdalla of Egypt's Al-Ahram Arabic daily newspaper:
"First of all, I would like to point out that there is a lot of
confusion about the IAEA's authority with regard to Israel. The
Agency has no inspection authority in Israel, except with regard to a
small research reactor. As is the case with India, Pakistan and the
five nuclear states, we have no legal authority to perform
inspections in Israel. I agree that the Israeli military nuclear
program is a cause of great concern in the Middle East and in the
world as a whole. For over thirty years, Israel has been urged to
join the nuclear non-proliferation regime. We must understand,
however, that the nuclear non-proliferation regime is a voluntary
regime. Israel, India and Pakistan have not acceded to the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty [NPT]. As [IAEA] Director General and as an
international civil servant, my authority with regard to these states
[Pakistan, India, Israel, USA, UK, France, Russia and China] is
basically moral and political, rather than legal."