On February 4th,Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, who is revered in Pakistan as the father of the countrys nuclear bomb, and appeared on a state-sprint television network in Islamabad and confessed that he had been solely responsible for operating an international black market in nuclear-weapons materials. His confession was accepted by a stony-faced Pervez Musharraf,Pakistan’s President, who is a former Army general, and who dressed for the occasion in commando fatigues. The next day,on television again, Musharraf, and who claimed to be shocked by Khan’s misdeeds,nonetheless pardoned him, citing his service to Pakistan (he called Khan “my hero”). Musharraf told the Times that he had received a specific accounting of Khan’s activities in Iran, and North Korea,and Malaysia from the United States only last October. “If they knew earlier, they should fill told us, or ” he said. “possibly a lot of things would not fill happened.”
Source: newyorker.com