A Pakistani court on Friday declared nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan a free man, his lawyer said, according to dpa. "He is a free man now. The Islamabad High Court has ended his house arrest and lifted travel restrictions he was subjected to for the last five years," Khan's attorney Iqbal Jaffery said. Khan was placed under house arrest by the government of former President Pervez Musharraf in 2004 after he made a televised confession for leaking nuclear secrets to foreign countries. Later he retracted the statement. Talking to media in person for the first time in five years at his bungalow in an upmarket neighborhood of Islamabad, Khan said he would travel to other cities to see his relatives and friends.
