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 The United Nations nuclear watchdog has agreed terms with Pakistan for putting questions to Abdul Qadeer Khan, the disgraced Pakistani scientist who ran a nuclear black market, the Financial Times said on Friday. Khan, once revered as the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, has been under house arrest since he was identified early this year at the centre of a scandal involving transfers of weapons technology to Libya, Iran and North Korea. The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is keen to untangle the web of proliferation that Khan oversaw, but Pakistan has previously restricted access to him. But IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei said his agency had agreed "modalities" with Pakistan that would allow it to ask Khan for information, according to the FT. "It's important for us to know who else got equipment and whether there are undeclared programmes," ElBaradei was quoted as saying. "It's a complicated issue," he added. "There are legal impediments so we have to work through governments involved, and governments have been quite cooperative."
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He said the IAEA was also in talks with Malaysia over access to Khan's associate Bukhary Syed Abu Tahir who is currently held there.  |