Pakistan’s nuclear scientist A .Q. Khan has said that Sri Lankan Muslims based in Dubai were suppliers of nuclear material and equipment not only to Pakistan but also to Iran and Libya.
“Be it Libya, Iran, or Pakistan, the same suppliers were responsible for providing the material through the same third party in Dubai,” Dr. Khan has revealed in an interview to a Pakistani news channel.
“It was a company with which we had established links when we could not receive the material from Europe. They were Sri Lankan Muslims,” Dr. Khan said in his interview in Urdu, aired in Karachi on August 31.
The Directorate of National Intelligence’s Open Source Centre translated the interview into English, which has not been made public yet. However, a copy of it was obtained by the Secrecy News of the Federation of American Students (FAS).
Giving an interesting insight into acquiring of nuclear technology by Iran, he said, “The Iranian officials would meet (suppliers) them in Dubai. We had told the Iranians that the suppliers were very reliable.”
