Physicist A. Q. Khan has house arrest restrictions 'eased'
BBC: The family of disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan say it is not clear whether his de facto house arrest has been permanently relaxed.
On Wednesday Khan was allowed to make a rare trip from his Islamabad home to Pakistan's Academy of Sciences.
His wife, Henny, told the BBC her husband went to pay his respects after the death of a colleague.
Khan was in charge of Pakistani's nuclear weapon program, and publicly admitted to passing nuclear technology to Libya, Iran and North Korea in 2004. To many Pakistani's he is still seen as a national hero.
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