Muammar Gaddafi’s son has told the London Sunday Times that Libya paid Pakistan for plans and components to make nuclear weapons. Pakistan is frantically spinning and denying. Pakistan: Libya Nuclear Report Unsubstantiated.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Monday a British newspaper report that said Pakistani scientists sold plans to make nuclear bombs to Libya appeared unsubstantiated, but any official complaint would be investigated.

Pakistan admitted late last year that scientists involved in its atom bomb program may have been driven by “personal ambition or greed” to export technology to Iran, but insisted the government had no part in any such deals.

The London Sunday Times quoted Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, as saying that Libya had spent $40 million on nuclear components from various black-market dealers, including Pakistani scientists.

A senior Pakistani official, who did not want to be identified, said the government had received information in the past that some scientists had sold nuclear technology to Iran and these charges were being investigated.

“If any such complaint is officially received in relation to Libya, that will be also be examined and investigated. So far they seem more like totally unsubstantiated allegations.”