LONDON, July 3: Iqtidar Mahmood Dara, a Pakistani national, was extradited on Monday evening from Heathrow airport to Germany.

Dara, who lived in Pakistan, had been arrested when he entered the UK on April 4, by officers of the Metropolitan’s Extradition Unit on a European arrest warrant on behalf of the German authorities for ordering illegal nuclear components.

It is alleged that between August 14, 2002, and November 24, 2003, Dara ordered a liquid waste monitor, two detection systems and an alpha-gamma spectrometry system from a chemist in Germany for use in the development of nuclear arms in Pakistan.

He was remanded in custody and first appeared at City of Westminster Magistrates Court on April 5, 2007. His extradition was ordered by Bow Street Magistrates Court on May 8 this year and after losing subsequent appeals his extradition took place on Monday