ISLAMABAD, Jan 28: Another senior official of the Khan Research Laboratories (KRL), Dr Abdul Majeed who was picked up for questioning by an intelligence agency, was released on Wednesday, sources close to him told Dawn.

The sources said Dr Majeed had been serving as a director-general health physics in the KRL for over a decade. They said Dr Majeed was picked up by some personnel of the intelligence agency for debriefing session on Jan 7 for his alleged involvement in transferring nuclear technology.

Dr Majeed is said to be the fourth official of the KRL who have so far been released since the start of debriefing sessions. Meanwhile, Interior Minister Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat told Dawn that no case had been registered against the founder of the nuclear programme of the country, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, and former COAS Gen (retired) Mirza Aslam Beg.

Talking to Dawn, some family members of the detained officials of the KRL said they had called on an executive director Asia Division of the Human Rights Watch (HRW), Brad Adams, at his HRW office. They said Mr Adams termed the government's actiona "severe violation of human rights".