ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: The two nuclear scientist taken into protective custody by the government for questioning are likely to be released soon.

“They will not be required for questioning in a day or two,” the president’s spokesman Maj-Gen Rashid Qureshi told Dawn.

When asked whether Sultan Bashiruddin Mehmood and Chaudhry Majeed would be released soon, he said so far they had found nothing objectionable against them.

Gen Qureshi regretted that foreign media had carried wild stories about the arrest of the two scientists.

A foreign journalist, he said, had asked him whether these scientists had passed on some chemical weapons-related information or material to the Taliban.

Another reporter, he said, wanted to know whether they had given some nuclear material to them, writes our staff reporter.