Abdul Qadeer Khan - Expansion of Network - End of Debriefings

End of Debriefings

The debriefings were suspended when General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani became the chief of army staff in 2007. In a meeting held by the Joint Headquarters, senior joint military leaders unanimously voted for the termination of Qadeer Khan's debriefings. Officially, the all debriefings were terminated by the Chairman Joint Chiefs General Tärik Majid on 14 August 2008. Abdul Qadeer Khan was never charged with espionage activities nor any criminal charges were pressed against him. The debriefings were only taken place to learn and dismantle A.Q. Khan's network, which it did successfully. The details of debriefings were marked as "classified" and were quickly wrapped up quietly following the fall of regime of General Pervez Musharraf. A complicating factor is that, few believed that Qadeer Khan acted alone and the affair risks gravely damaging the Armed Forces, which oversaw and controlled the nuclear weapons development and of which Musharraf was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, until his resignation from military service on 28 November 2007.