washington an angry humiliated and wounded aqkhan has finally made public and official what has long been suspected his nuclear proliferation activities that included exchanging and passing blueprints and equipment to china iran north korea and libya was done at the behest of the pakistani government and military and he was forced to take the rap for it watch videothe bastards first used us and are now playing dirty games with us khan writes about the pakistani leadership in a december 2003 letter to his wife henny that has finally been made public by an interlocutor darling if the government plays any mischief with me take a tough stand he tells his wife adding they might try to get rid of me to cover up all the things they got done by mebut henny was unable to play hardball because khan had also sent copies of that letter to his daughter dina in london and to his niece kausar khan in amsterdam through his brother a pakistan airlines executive pakistani intelligence agencies got wind of it and threatened the wellbeing of the family forcing him to recant and publicly take the blame for the proliferation activities in a humiliating television spectacle engineered by then military ruler pervez musharrafhowever a copy of the fourpage letter reached khans longtime journalistic contact simon henderson in 2007 in fact in the letter khan tells his wife get in touch with simon henderson and give him all the details henderson says when he acquired the copy of the letter he was shocked his acquaintance with khan goes back to the late 1970s but it was never intimate and consisted of an occasional interviews and conversations and seasonal greetings describing the fourpage letter as extraordinary henderson says in numbered paragraphs it outlines pakistans nuclear cooperation with china iran and north korea and also mentions libya some of the disclosures are stunning and in one para that is bound to embarrass beijing besides implicating it khan writes about how pakistan helped china in enrichment technology in return for bomb blueprints we put up a centrifuge plant at hanzhong 250km southwest of xian khan writes the chinese gave us drawings of the nuclear weapon gave us 50kg of enriched uranium gave us 10 tons of uf6 natural and 5 tons of uf6 3 uf6 is uranium hexafluoride the gaseous feedstock for an enrichment planon iran the letter says probably with the blessings of bb benazir bhuttogeneral imtiaz benazirs defence adviser now dead asked me to give a set of drawings and some components to the iranians the names and addresses of suppliers were also given to the iranians on north korea a nowretired general took 3million through me from the n koreans and asked me to give some drawings and machines henderson does not explain why he waited nearly two years since he got hold of the letter to make it public but he writes sympathetically about khans travails in pakistan where he is held largely incommunicado