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Musharraf allows Nuclear Blackmarketeer A Q Khan to meet 'close friends'
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has partially lifted restrictions on disgraced nuclear scientist A Q Khan, who was placed under house arrest after he confessed to heading a secret proliferation ring, to enable him to meet close friends and some old colleagues.

Requests from persons intending to visit Khan are routed through Lt Gen (retired) Khalid Kidwai, the chief of the Strategic Planning Division, the organisation that controls Pakistan's atomic arsenal and the nuclear establishment. Kidwai and his department decide who should be granted permission, 'The News' reported on Tuesday.

Earlier PML-Q Secretary General Mushahid Hussain Sayed had said <b>the next government would set Khan free.</b> Khan has been under detention in his home in the heart of Islamabad for four years.

According to a family source, there is a list of people who can meet Khan and even this list keeps changing. The source said Khan's daughters, his sister Razia and brother Abdul Qayyum are allowed to meet him.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->