Obituary: A.Q. Khan was the world’s biggest nuclear proliferator

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It hadn’t started with bombs, or even with science. His father had been a teacher, a polite peace-loving man who stopped his sons from shooting songbirds

In later years, he and his acolytes would cast this moment as if it were Albert Einstein writing to Franklin D. Roosevelt, revealing the secrets of the atom. A country which could not make sewing needles, good bicycles or even durable metalled roads was embarking on one of the latest and most difficult technologies, he recalled.

Although his parents lied about his birth date to get him into school early, he proved a diligent rather than brilliant student. At partition the family remained in Bhopal, but as the city’s Muslims became increasingly harassed, they began to leave. Within a short time, several of his siblings had gone to Pakistan. At 16, when he finished high school, he followed them, taking with him little more than his beloved Mughal histories and a gold pen, a graduation gift from an older brother.

This black market was the biggest and most advanced network of nuclear proliferation ever built. Its full extent remains unclear to this day. The former metallurgist had travelled to at least 18 countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria. The, which reportedly had him on a kill list, believed that Osama bin Laden himself had sent envoys to try and arrange a meeting, although these approaches were thought to have been rebuffed.

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