Pakistani scientist 'sold Iran nuclear parts'

Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan sold centrifuge parts to Iran for its nuclear programme in the mid-1990s, it was claimed today.

Buhary Syed Abu Tahir, the alleged middle-man in an international nuclear trafficking network run by Khan, told police in Kuala Lumpur that the scientist asked him to send two containers of used centrifuge parts from Pakistan to Iran in 1994 or 1995.