Atomic scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan has decided to challenge his detention in the Supreme Court (SC) and has hired two Islamabad-based lawyers to fight his case, Geo news reported on Wednesday.Quoting a report, the channel said that Dr Khan would directly nominate President Gen Pervez Musharraf in the petition. It said that President Musharraf would be accused of not keeping promises allegedly made to Dr Khan when he (Musharraf) asked him to confess to committing acts of nuclear proliferation on television.
Quoting its sources, the channel said that following intelligence information to the government about Dr KhanÂ’s likely move, Dr Attaur Rehman, adviser to Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, called on the scientist at his residence in IslamabadÂ’s E/7 Sector to convince him not to file the petition.