In a dramatic television appearance February 4, Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of the Pakistani bomb, acknowledged that during the past two decades he had secretly provided North Korea, Libya, and Iran with crucial technological and intellectual building blocks for making nuclear weapons. Khan, considered a national hero, apologized to the people of Pakistan for what he had done and was pardoned by Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf shortly afterward.
After this television appearance also the stories from the early eighties of the last century resurface. At the time the Pakistan scientist was working in the Netherlands. The naïve Dutch government did not prevent Kahn to export nuclear knowledge to Pakistan. After Kahn left The Netherlands contacts of him still managed to organise the needed parts and an ex-colleague was one of the first whistle blowers that brought the story in the open.
The Europe correspondent Markus Schmidt from the German first public TV broadcaster ARD wants more background information about the time Abdul Qadeer Khan was working in the Netherlands.