ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's decision to detain and question some of its leading nuclear scientists came after it dispatched top-secret investigative teams to Iran and Libya to check allegations that greed led the men to cash in on nuclear know-how, a senior Pakistani official said.
Disclosure of the investigative missions indicates the seriousness with which the government is taking allegations of nuclear proliferation after months of public denials. The investigation also has resulted in some researchers being barred from leaving Pakistan.
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we sent our own teams to Iran and Libya and the debriefings began after that said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. He said the interrogations sprang from information learned on the trips, as well as evidence from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nation's nuclear watchdog. The official gave no details about the timing of trips or what had been uncovered.
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