KHAN FILE AND MUSHARRAF PARDON / A.K. KHAN APOLOGY AND MUSHARRAF PARDON
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ABDUL QADEER KHAN FILE FOOTAGE, APOLOGY, B-ROLL / MUSHARRAF PARDON / NIGHTLINE
1) 19:06:04
STORY: ++Pakistan Scientist 2 - NEW Scientist apology to nation for spreading nuclear secrets
DATELINE: Islamabad 4 Feb 2004
1. SOUNDBITE: (English) Abdul Qadeer Khan, Government scientist: 19:06:04 "It is with the deepest sense of sorrow, anguish and regret that I have chosen to appear before you in order to atone for some of the anguish and pain that has been suffered by the people of Pakistan on account of the extremely unfortunate events of the last two months. I am aware of the wider critical nature of Pakistan's nuclear programme to our national security and the national pride and emotions that it generates in your hearts. 19:06:35 I'm also conscious that any untoward event, incident or threat to this national security, draws greatest concern in the nation's psyche. It is in this context that the recent international events and the fall out on Pakistan have traumatised the nation. I have much to answer for it. The recent investigation was ordered by the government of Pakistan consequent to the disturbing disclosures and evidence by some countries to international agencies, relating to proliferation activities by certain Pakistanis and foreigners over the last two decades. 19:07:16 The investigation has established that many of the reported activities did occur and that these were inevitably initiated at my behest. In my interviews with the concerned government officials I was confronted with the evidence and the findings and I have voluntarily admitted that much of it is true and accurate. My dear brothers and sister I have chosen to appear before you to offer my deepest regrets and unqualified apologies to a traumatised nation. 19:07:50 I am aware of the high esteem, love and affection in which you have held me for my services to national security and I am grateful for all the awards and honours that have been vested upon me. However it pains me to realise in retrospect that my entire lifetime achievement of providing fool proof national security to my nation could have been placed in serious jeopardy on account of my activities which were based in good faith but on errors of judgement related to unauthorised proliferation activities. I wish to place on record that those of my subordinates who have accepted their role in the affair were acting in good faith, like me, on my instructions. 19:08:38 I also wish to clarify that there was never any tradition for these activities by the government. I take full responsibility for my actions and seek your pardon. I give you an assurance, my dear brothers and sisters that such activities will never take place in the future. I also appeal to all citizens of Pakistan, in the supreme national interest to refrain from any further speculations and not to politicise these extremely sensitive issue of national security. May Allah keep Pakistan safe and secure. (in Urdu) Long live Pakistan."
2) 19:09:29
DATELINE: Islamabad/Rwalpindi - Feb 4/5, 2004
19:09:29 1. Various of Pakistan government cabinet meeting
File: Rawalpindi - 4 February 2004
19:10:04 2. Various of scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan talking to Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf
3) 19:10:47
Title: PAKISTAN REAX APTN EVN-1
Shotlist:
19:10:27 1. Wide exterior of traffic passing in front of President's House
No Access Pakistan
2. Mid shot exterior Prime Minister's House
3. Wide shot interior of Pakistani cabinet meeting Thursday morning discussing whether Nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan should be pardoned for leaking secrets
4. Mid shot Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmud Kasuri seated between other cabinet colleagues
5. Close up Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali speaking
6. Various of cabinet ministers
7. Close up Jamali
8. Various of cabinet ministers
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19:10:59 9. Wide shot of crowd at morning Kashmir Solidarity Day rally in Aabpara market, Islamabad
10. Mid shot white religious coalition Mutahida Majlis-e Amal flags waved in front of speakers addressing rally
11. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Qazi Hussein Ahmed, MMA leader ?Do you think in this way our atomic technology will be sustained and is this the way to ensure its safety. My dear fellows, what are the real intentions behind this. The real objectives of the Americans and the western powers is to ensure that Muslims should not have any defensive weapons with which to protect themselves.?
19:11:41 12. Various of crowd chanting Islamic slogans
13. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Issam ul-Haq, brother of detained Maj. Islam ul-Haq, personal security officer to A.Q. Khan "Dr Qadir Khan, you don"t need to apologise to your nation, rather we and the whole nation are embarrassed in front of you that we couldn?t defend your dignity.?
14. Wide of protest
19:11:45 15. Wide of headlines in Thursday morning edition of Pakistani daily English newspaper "The News"
16. Close up picture of AQ Khan, pans to headline "I did it in good faith"
17. Set up for voxpop
19:11:57 18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Daoud Iqbal, Vox pop "I think he is a hero of the nation and if there is any fault in his job I think that is the fault of the whole government. No one in such cases can lonely (alone) do something."
19:12:15 19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mohammed Waqas, Vox pop "He and his whole team did everything in good faith, so he should be pardoned."
20. Mid shot Tehrik e-Insaaf news conference chaired by party leader Imran Khan
19:12:28 21. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Imran Khan "The biggest danger that we are facing is that our nuclear programme is in jeopardy. It is in jeopardy because our leader and our nuclear scientists have said themselves that they have exported their nuclear technologies abroad.?
19:12:53 22. Set-up analyst Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Talat Masood reaction to President Musharraf?s grant of pardon to AQ Khan
19:12:57 23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Talat Masood, political analyst ?Well this was expected when it was announced that he had made a mercy petition and he had made a confession right on the electronic media it was so obvious that they had come to some sort of an understanding and agreement.?
24. Cutaway
19:13:13 25. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Talat Masood, political analyst "There were conflicting pressures. There were pressures from the international community and particularly the U.S. and I.A.E.A. and that you know these people who have committed these lapses and were responsible for these ommissions must be penalized and that Pakistan?s nuclear programme must be controlled and the command and control structures should take action against these individuals. I think at the same time at the domestic level, because of the stature that Dr. A.Q. Khan had enjoyed and the myth and the reality about him which had developed over the last 20, 25 years, that could not be demolished and if it could have been demolished completely then it would have had a big recoil within the country which they wanted to avoid. So I think it was more or less a balancing act of the President in order to satisfy the internal and external dimensions of the crisis."
No Access Pakistan Rawalpindi, 4 Feb 2004
19:14:07 26. Various of clean pictures of President Musharraf meeting with Abdul Qadir Khan
4) 19:14:45
Title: PAKISTAN NUCLEAR APTN 1600G - Musharraf Pardon
DATELINE: Islamabad - 5 Feb 2004/File
SHOTLIST
19:14:45 1. Wide of General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani president speaking at news conference
19:14:46 3. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani President: "The NCA (National Command Authority) considered this matter and there was a cabinet meeting in which they recommended a pardon and I, as president of Pakistan, decided that Dr AQ (sic), because he is our national hero - but he has done things wrong for which he has my deepest sympathy - I pardon him."
4. Wide of Musharraf speaking
ENGLISH SOT: General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani President:
19:15:29 "Ladies and gentlemen, this country will never roll back its nuclear assets, its missile assets. I will be the last man doing it. I will leave this place (meaning he would rather die) before I do it. It can never be done."
6. Audience
19:15:57 7. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani President: "Development is continuing. It has not stopped. We have made the Shine II, a (rocket with) a two-thousand kilometre (1,243 miles) range which will be tested within one month."
8. Musharraf speaking
5) 19:16:41
Title: PAKISTAN NUCLEAR APTN1600G
Notes founder of Pakistan's nuclear programme, Abdul Qadeer Khan,
Islamabad, Pakistan - 31 January 2004
19:16:41 1. Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf chairs meeting of National
Command Authority, which controls the country's nuclear assets
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Islamabad, Pakistan - 31 May 1998
19:17:14 2. Exterior of Dr. Qadeer Khan's home
19:17:19 3. Journalists preparing for press conference
19:17:24 4. Various of Dr. Khan talking to journalists
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Baluchistan - 28 May 1998
19:17:38 5. Mountains shake as Pakistan carries out first nuclear tests
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Islamabad, Pakistan - 31 May 1998
19:18:02 6. Cutaway journalists
19:18:20 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Qadeer Khan, founder of Pakistan nuclear programme:
"If you know, or if you talk to the people who know me very closely, I am one of
the kindest persons in Pakistan."
8. Wide of news conference
6) 19:18:54
Title: PAKISTAN DR KHAN APTN EVN3
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Islamabad - 31 May 1998
(++PLEASE NOTE VIDEO QUALITY AS INCOMING FROM SHOTS 1 TO 3++)
19:18:58 1. Various Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear technology outside his house
19:19:04 2. Khan's residence
19:19:10 3. Khan waving at his house entrance
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Chaghi - 28 May 1998
4. Pakistan's first nuclear test at Chaghi (nuclear blast site )
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Islamabad, 31 May 1998
19:19:24 5. Nuclear scientists arrival after nuclear test at Rawalpindi PAF Chaklala Airbase
19:19:30 6. Crowds cheering nuclear scientist at PAF Chaklala Air base.
7. Nuclear scientists wearing garlands
19:19:39 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Mirza Aslam Baig, Pakistan's Army Chief 1988-1991:
"Everybody is violating the law. How did India acquire their capability? How did Israel acquire the capability? And that's what Pakistan did. And any country which is threatened because of the nuclear capability of their neighbour, they have their right to acquire it. Because In threatened our security, we acquired it. Israel threatened its security. The neighbouring countries have a right to acquire it. So what is the question of international law, when the international law does not stop the countries Israel and India who have acquired it and no fingers are being pointed at them."
19:20:24 9. Cutaway of General Mirza Aslam Baig
19:20:27 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Mirza Baig, Army Chief between 1988-1991: "And what the scientists have given to Pakistan, that's why the Pakistan nation is grateful to them and they will not allow any harm to these scientists whether it is Abdul Qadeer Khan or all those who were associated with the programme."
19:20:46 11. Various of nuclear scientists families protesting in front of Supreme court holding banners
Rawalpindi, Date unknown
19:20:50 12. Various shots of Mutahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), (Qazi Hussein Ahmed) protest in Rawalpindi over detention of nuclear scientists, banners reading "Don't degrade our heroes!" and "Send our fathers home!"
Islamabad, Date unknown
19:21:20 13. Various shots of family of nuclear scientist Dr. Nazeer Ahmed (Chief Engineer of Metallurgy Department, Kahuta Research Laborotary, Islamabad)
19:21:27 14. SOUNDBITE: (English), Saima Adil, daughter of Dr. Nazeer Ahmed: "I am proud of Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan and his team and my father and his colleagues who have done so much by making Pakistan a nuclear state and making Pakistan so invincible but at the same time I am shocked by the way they treated my father, the way they manhandled him, the way they treated him with disrespect. He is a national hero, along with the rest of his colleagues and instead of giving national heroes the due respect and reverence which they deserve, they completely treated them worse then criminals."
19:21:59 15. STILL of Ahmed receiving an award from ex-President of Pakistan Rafiq Tarrar
19:22:02 16. STILL of Ahmed with ex-prime minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif
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Location unknown, 14 April 1999
19:22:05 16. Shaheen missile test
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