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LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has reserved the verdict on a petition filed by nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, seeking his free movement.
As proceedings commenced in the chamber of LHC CJ Sardar Muhammad Shaim Khan, the counsel for the respondent, the Strategic Planning Division, contended that Dr Qadeer was provided security for his protection.
Dr AQ Khan's lawyers told the court that the petitioner was not being allowed to meet anyone even though he was 85-years-old. They contended that Dr AQ Khan wanted to spend the rest life as a free citizen.
To this, the SPD representative told the court that Dr Khan was provided security to protect his life. He added that the no members of the common public or foreigners were allowed to meet him.
Khan's counsels quipped that Dr Khan's wife was also a foreigner and rhetorically asked if she should be restrained from meeting him as well.
The SPD representative told the court that matters were running smoothly till 2004 and it was after this year that Dr Khan was provided security.
He argued that the international community mocked the judgment of 2008, handed in by the Islamabad High Court, after which Dr Khan was provided security.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 26th, 2019.
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