It is difficult to understand why BBC journalists waste their time in proving things which even a schoolkid in the Indian subcontinent knows to be blatantly false. These books will serve to misguide British and American citizens and create an anti-war climate in those countries. Far as these countries are from the epicentre of terrorism, their sources of information are such scholarly books. People in India do not need to read such books in order to know that AQ Khan could not have done such things without the support of the Pakistan Government. This is just another alibi for Pakistan just as the USA considers Pakistan as its greatest terror ally as part of realpolitik.
And almost all muslim nations still consider him as the hero.
AQK perhaps did the same thing that the Rosenburgs allegedly did.
He helped the union of non-kaffirs.
After all the nuclear power is not the monopoly of the kaffirs alone who have to share this planet willingly or unwillingly, however unwittingly, with the non-kaffir community which is on rampage today.