Abdul Qadeer Khan, father of the Islamic bomb, has admitted selling nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya, and North Korea:

Top scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan was sacked as adviser to the prime minister Saturday and is the main suspect in a two-month investigation into allegations that individuals passed on Pakistan’s nuclear weapons secrets to third countries.

Seven suspects are still under investigation, but senior former military and intelligence officials — who experts say must have known about Khan’s activities — are not being questioned.

Putting Khan on trial is a sensitive issue in Pakistan, where he is revered as a national hero and the father of not only the country’s, but the Islamic world’s atomic bomb.

“He (Khan) has admitted these things,” said a military official on condition of anonymity, referring to allegations Khan peddled nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

“It has yet to be decided whether he goes on trial or not.”