Pakistan refuses US access to AQ Khan
Pakistan rejected US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's request to allow Americans to question disgraced scientist AQ Khan over his alleged role in Iran's nuclear programme, a report said in Washington on Tuesday.
Rice, who was in Pakistan last week, requested direct American access to Khan "so that the US intelligence community could ask him about his nuclear handiwork in Iran.
"But all she obtained was permission to submit a list of questions to Khan," The Washington Times said.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. It also said that both the US and Israel "have contingency plans to launch air strikes against Iran's 12 to 15 nuclear sites, most of them underground."
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