Lahore, February 09: Pakistan’s disgraced nuclear scientist A Q Khan has informed a court here that the government has placed a “ban on water and medical supplies”” to him under the garb of a court order.
Khan’s counsel Syed Ali Zafar told a bench of the Lahore High Court yesterday that though arguments in a case for easing restrictions on the scientist were going on, the government had barred Khan from going out of his residence even to visit his brother who is critically ill in a hospital.
Zafar said Khan’s relatives and friends too had been stopped from visiting him and the government, in an unprecedented move, had restricted the supply of water to his residence and stopped his doctor and medical staff from visiting him.
This, Zafar contended, could severely jeopardize Khan’s health.
–PTI