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Comment by 6stringronin | Hacker News Reader

Interesting that you added Pakistan to the list, have they ever been accused of espionage in the US? Or trying to hack anyone for sensitive information? Doesn't seem likely.

Have any reference to this?

I'm only seeing them in reference to India which would seem par for the course on both sides.

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Pakistan stole nuclear secrets from Netherlands, and then sold them to North Korea (in exchange for ballistic missile technology), Libya and Iran. The nuclear arsenals of all rogue nations threatening armageddon today (other than Russia) were midwifed by Pakistan.

Sources:

1. https://archive.ph/EgTF0

2. https://web.archive.org/web/20070701103529/http://www.pakist...

Here in The Netherlands there was a big scandal in the 70s concerning Pakistani scientist Dr Abdul Qadir Khan who worked in a nuclear research lab and was accused of being a spy. He's regarded as the 'father' of the Pakistani atom bomb.

And later sold the technology to North Korea if I remember correctly.

[1] Illegal nuclear proliferation

[2] Potential terrorism, it is a breeding ground for it. Lot of past perpetrators got training, planned it there or had some connection.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/five-men-indicted-operating-i...

[2] Lot of Wikipedia pages on Pakistani involvement in terror attacks on US: San Bernardino shooting, aaifa siddiqui case, support for OBL etc

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