ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - In the first action from Pakistan's probe into allegations of nuclear proliferation, the government on Saturday fired the revered founder of the country's atomic program from his job as a top adviser and confined him to his home.
The moves against Abdul Qadeer Khan — considered a national hero for giving Pakistan its nuclear deterrent against India and the Islamic world its first atomic bomb — came as investigators narrow their pursuit of nuclear scientists' black market ties to Iran and Libya.