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Dr Qadeer stable after 'successful' surgery
KARACHI (updated on: September 09, 2006, 20:31 PST): Pakistan's nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan on Saturday underwent 'successful' surgery for prostate cancer at a leading hospital here, a doctor said.
A team carried out the three-and-a-half hour operation at the Agha Khan hospital in Karachi, said the doctor, who declined to be named.
"The operation is successful and Mr Khan is responding well," he said, adding that the scientist had been moved to his hospital room.
Strict security was in place at the private hospital.
Visitors were not allowed to see the 70-year-old scientist, who is revered in Pakistan as a national hero for helping to make the state an atomic power.
The government last month announced Khan was suffering from prostate cancer but said the disease was not at an advanced stage.
Khan admitted passing nuclear secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea in a televised confession in February 2004, placing him in the thick of a global atomic black market.
President Pervez Musharraf pardoned him the same month.
But Khan has since lived under virtual house arrest in a leafy diplomatic sector in Islamabad and makes no public appearances.
KARACHI (updated on: September 09, 2006, 20:31 PST): Pakistan's nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan on Saturday underwent 'successful' surgery for prostate cancer at a leading hospital here, a doctor said.
A team carried out the three-and-a-half hour operation at the Agha Khan hospital in Karachi, said the doctor, who declined to be named.
"The operation is successful and Mr Khan is responding well," he said, adding that the scientist had been moved to his hospital room.
Strict security was in place at the private hospital.
Visitors were not allowed to see the 70-year-old scientist, who is revered in Pakistan as a national hero for helping to make the state an atomic power.
The government last month announced Khan was suffering from prostate cancer but said the disease was not at an advanced stage.
Khan admitted passing nuclear secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea in a televised confession in February 2004, placing him in the thick of a global atomic black market.
President Pervez Musharraf pardoned him the same month.
But Khan has since lived under virtual house arrest in a leafy diplomatic sector in Islamabad and makes no public appearances.
