Clarification

Published May 14, 2006

ISLAMABAD, May 13: A spokesman for the Inter-Service Public Relations has denied remarks attributed to Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan, ISPR chief, appearing in a section of the press that Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan’s daughter has been barred from meeting her father. The spokesman said the ISPR DG had been misquoted.

The DG had only commented that certain measures were in place for security reasons, he added.

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