ISLAMABAD, Dec 21: One of three detained Pakistani nuclear scientists has been allowed to return home, says an official.

Yasin Chohan was allowed to return home after undergoing a “personnel dependability and debriefing session”, Foreign Ministry spokesman Masood Khan said on Sunday.

Chohan was one of three scientists detained by Pakistani intelligence service officials earlier this month. Two others, Mohammad Farooq and another identified only as Saeed, were “still undergoing debriefing”, Khan said.

The men worked for Khan Research Laboratories, headed by Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb.

Opposition politicians have complained that the men had been detained because of American pressure, branding this a “national insult”.—Reuters