Nuclear Black Market Leader to Undergo Surgery

Pakistan announced today that former top nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan would undergo prostate cancer surgery in Karachi, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, Aug. 22).

Khan has been living under house arrest in Islamabad since 2004 for his involvement in an international nuclear black market enterprise.

The government did not state the date for the operation, according to the Associated Press (Associated Press/Yahoo!News, Sept. 6).