Pakistan’s government is seeking to tighten restrictions on nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan in response to a legal challenge seeking his release from house arrest, his lawyer said Tuesday. Khan, the father of the country’s atomic bomb, has been effectively under house arrest in Islamabad since February 2004 when he confessed that he transferred nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea. The scientist’s wife earlier this month lodged a court challenge against the restrictions on her husband, who had cancer surgery in 2006, arguing that he should be allowed out to meet family and friends. But Khan has angered the authorities with a series of recent media interviews.
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