Amin’s investigations led him to Dubai where he discovered that sensitive technology illegally exported from the West to Pakistan was returning from KRL Labs to Dubai for onward shipping to other countries. Amin’s astonishing detective work is painstakingly covered in a new book published this week, entitled America and the Islamic Bomb, written by Washington DC-based authors David Armstrong and Joe Trento who say the customs investigator’s findings were duly passed on to both Ml6 and the CIA.

“He found ring magnets coming back from Khan’s labs and going on to Libya and he told Ml6. The next night they stuck him on a plane and sent him back home. They did it for political considerations,” Armstrong told The Indian Express in an exclusive interview prior to the book’s release.

“They were monitoring it and they say it was going to jeopardise their monitoring operation, which is just absolute nonsense. Why should it jeopardise anything if a separate investigation comes in and finds this stuff? You should use it to your own advantage. What’s the point of monitoring if you’re not going to do anything?” he pointed out.

Armstrong argues that the US and Britain effectively connived in Islamabad’s nuclear programme as “Pakistan has a get-out-of-jail free card because they were always doing favours for everybody. If it’s not Afghanistan, it’s the Taliban, if it’s not the Taliban it’s always something. They always have some excuse so they can argue that we are too indispensable to you guys to shut down our nuclear smuggling. It’s been one case after another.”

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