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...failure of the federal government to act quickly enough to arrest the decline in the economy before the end of this year now appears to depend not so much on whether the funds are approved as the extent to which Congress and some parts of the Administration can put them into law and manage them as ongoing programs...
Emerging from his Islamabad mansion on Feb. 6, A. Q. Khan looked victorious; after five years of de facto house arrest, the Pakistani government declared that the nuclear scientist was being set free. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, Khan's life's work - which included a clandestine network that sold nuclear secrets to nations such as North Korea, Iran and Libya - is still holding the rest of the world hostage. And while Khan is viewed by many in Pakistan as a national hero for developing the country's nuclear weapons program, his rogue dealings have simultaneously helped advance...
Whether that keeps him from actually speaking his mind is another thing. Khan has never let gag orders keep him silent for long. Indeed, over the past year, as Musharraf quit office and the new government eased in, the conditions of Khan's house arrest have steadily relaxed. Last year, he was allowed to meet friends, have relatives visit and even travel to Karachi amid tight security. Toward the end of Musharraf's rule, he sparked controversy after giving a slew of interviews in which he retracted his confession and claimed that he had been forced to read a statement...
...Abdul Qadeer Khan a threat to nuclear nonproliferation? The father of Pakistan's nuclear program may have been freed from house arrest by an Islamabad court, but in the U.S. the jury's still out on how much harm Khan himself could do. The general consensus, however, is that his release sends a bad signal...
Khan's release comes as no great surprise, because it was clear the Pakistani government was not going to keep him under house arrest forever. But proliferation experts worry that his release by the Islamabad high court will be interpreted as a vindication of his claim that he had never been involved in any criminal activity. The experts say this could encourage others - including some in the Pakistani nuclear program - to follow his example...