{"id":37880,"date":"2021-10-10T19:55:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T10:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/10\/pakistan-nuclear-weapons-scientist-abdul-qadeer-khan-dies-aged-85"},"modified":"2021-10-10T19:55:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T10:55:39","slug":"pakistani-nuclear-weapons-scientist-abdul-qadeer-khan-dies-aged-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37880","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani nuclear weapons scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan dies aged 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM pays tribute to \u2018national icon\u2019 who turned country into atomic power but later admitted smuggling nuclear secrets<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Qadeer Khan, considered to be the father of Pakistan\u2019s nuclear weapons programme and later accused of smuggling technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya, has died aged 85.<\/p>\n<p>The atomic scientist, who spent the last years of his life under heavy guard, died in the capital, Islamabad, where he had recently been hospitalised with Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/10\/pakistan-nuclear-weapons-scientist-abdul-qadeer-khan-dies-aged-85\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM pays tribute to \u2018national icon\u2019 who turned country into atomic power but later admitted smuggling nuclear secretsAbdul Qadeer Khan, considered to be the father of Pakistan\u2019s nuclear weapons programme and later accused of smuggling technology to Iran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[359,441,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","category-nuclear-weapons","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37881,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37880\/revisions\/37881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}