The condition of nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan has stabilised after getting treatment for deep vein thrombosis, his wife said on Sunday. Henny Khan said on Saturday her husband's condition had deteriorated after he was diagnosed as suffering from deep vein thrombosis, a blood clot, usually in a vein in the lower leg.
Khan had been recovering from surgery for prostrate cancer in early September. "Initially, his condition deteriorated but now it is stable," she told Reuters. "It hasn't been totally cured. It will take time."
Admired in Pakistan as the father of its atomic bomb, Khan has been under house arrest in Islamabad since an investigation was launched against him in 2003 after he confessed to passing on nuclear secrets and materials to Iran, North Korea and Libya.