#NuclearProliferation

People (4)

• A.Q. Khan Pakistani scientist associated with Pakistan's nuclear bomb program and its procurement network, and project director of the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute, which received BCCI grants.
• Arshad Pervez Pakistani-born Toronto trader arrested in 1987 while buying maraging steel and beryllium for Pakistan's nuclear program, whose case ended in 1990 with a nolo contendere plea and release for time served.
• Ghulam Ishaq Khan Pakistani civil servant who ran the State Bank under Bhutto and the finance ministry under Zia, chaired the Pakistani BCCI Foundation, and was president of Pakistan from 1988 to 1993.
• Zia ul-Haq Pakistani army chief who seized power in 1977, hanged Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, ruled until his 1988 death in a plane crash, and was cultivated by BCCI's Agha Hasan Abedi.