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9/11 See other 9/11 Articles Title: Cover-up charges fly over cancer treatment for nuclear bomb 'hero' The cricketer turned politician Imran Khan has accused the Pakistan government of a cover-up over the treatment of a disgraced nuclear scientist suffering from cancer. Opposition parties claim that 70-year-old Abdul Qadeer Khan – known as the "father" of the Islamic nuclear bomb – is being slowly poisoned to prevent him divulging his secrets to Western investigators. Dr Khan was flown on Thursday from his home in Islamabad to Karachi's Aga Khan University Hospital to be treated for prostate cancer, accompanied by family, doctors and security guards. It is the first time he has been allowed to leave the capital since October 2003, when he admitted involvement in passing nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea. But opposition parties believe that the move is part of a plan to silence the scientist and are demanding to know why he is being treated at a general hospital instead of the Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital in Lahore, the country's only specialist cancer centre. Imran Khan, who founded the Shaukat Khanum in 1994, said: "The only reason I could figure is that the government doesn't want to reveal the facts about Dr Khan's condition, or that there is something that they don't want everyone to know. "They know that they can easily control Aga Khan University Hospital, while it would be difficult for them to control information about his condition if they put him at Shaukat Khanum, which is highly independent." Pakistan's main opposition parties still revere Dr Khan as a national hero. "We fear that Dr Khan is being poisoned," said Sahibzda Fazal Karim, the leader of the PML-N Party. Tehmina Daultana, another opposition leader, alleged that Dr Khan was "being murdered". Dr Khan had surgery on Friday and is expected to remain in hospital for a month. Maj Gen Shaukat Sultan, Pakistan's chief military spokesman, said: "The government is offering him the best possible treatment available and he had been shifted to Karachi for radical surgery, with his consent and after consultation with the family and doctors." Pakistan has had repeated requests from the West to interview Dr Khan, but President Pervez Musharraf has so far succeeded in fending off access by international investigators.
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