Munir Khan

A Q Khan was born in Bhopal, India and, unlike Salam, was an immigrant to Pakistan and migrated to the new nation with his family at the time of the partition of India. The journey to Pakistan as a refugee was a traumatic one and it clearly had a profound effect upon Khan, who developed […]

In 2005, the front cover of Time magazine displayed a photograph of Dr A Q Khan under the heading ‘Merchant of Menace’. At the time, Khan was under house arrest following a dramatic televised mea culpa, which sent shockwaves around the world. Khan confessed to having been responsible for the worst act of nuclear proliferation […]

Despite growing up in the west, a distant childhood spent studying in Pakistan — somewhat improbably at an English medium public school nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas — has left me with a legacy of regular daily correspondence with old school friends and colleagues from Pakistan. Apart from run of the mill updates […]