Hillary calls AQ Khan ‘world’s greatest proliferators’

Khan,who was slapped with US sanctions along with those on his network,was released by a Pakistani court from years of house arrest early this year.

“We have made it very clear that the network had to be dismantled and it was. There are people who were connected with A Q Khan who are out of business or who were imprisoned. And there are ongoing efforts to continue to obtain useful information,” Clinton said.

When asked about the conditions to be imposed on Pakistan in lieu of the billions of dollars of US aid,she said. “We do think that there need to be the right kind of conditions”.

“It’s a little bit like the Goldilocks story. If they’re too weak,we don’t get changes. If they’re too strong,we get a backlash. So we’re trying to figure out sort of what is the area that will influence behaviour and produce results,” Clinton said.

She said the Obama Administration is creating “measures of performance” that it will share with the US Congress,so that “you and we can follow whether or not we’re getting the kind of positive outcomes that we’re attempting to achieve”.

However,Clinton said the US has to be cautious in this regard.

“We will develop with the Congress the kind of conditional statements that we want,we have to be just careful that what we put into legislation doesn’t stop cooperation instead of further cooperation. So let us work with you and others to try to figure out exactly sort of,what’s the sweet spot here? How do we get results?” she said.

“We’re not interested in putting money into doing what hasn’t worked. And we’ve seen the situation deteriorate over the last eight years in—Pakistan. And even before,it’s been a very difficult country for us to get our arms around and figure out what our ongoing relationship would be like,” Clinton said.

The US Secretary of State further said that the US is convinced that the democratically elected government in Pakistan shares its goals with respect to the terrorist threat.

“We just have to figure out how we can best support them and actually getting results,” Clinton said.