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Abdul Qadeer Khan

Export controlled · Sanctioned entity

Abdul Qadeer Khan is subject to sanctions. See the individual program listings below.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	A. Q. Khan · Abdul Kadir Khan · Abdul Kádir Chán · Abdul Qadeer Khan · Abdul Qadir Khan · 17 more...				[sources]
Alias	A. Kahn · A.Q. Khan · AQ Khan · Abdel Qader Khan · Abdul Cadir Khan · 26 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	A.Q.Khan · AQK · عبدالقدیر · アブドゥル・カーン · アブドル・カディル・カーン				[sources]
Birth date	1936-04-01 · 1936-04-27				[sources]
Place of birth	Bhopal · Bhopal, India				[sources]
Death date	2021-10-10				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Pakistan				[sources]
Country	Pakistan				[sources]
Citizenship	India · Pakistan				[sources]
Description	Former nuclear physicist and key person in the development of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program; An unnamed analyst suggested in 2012 that the DPRK could have gained access to Iranian nuclear warhead designs through Abdul Qadeer Khan.				[sources]
First name	Abdul Qadeer · Hayder				[sources]
Last name	Khan · ZAMAN				[sources]
Passport number	`D000428`				[sources]
Website	web.archive.org				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q310773				[sources]
Education	Delft University of Technology · Katholieke Universiteit Leuven · UCLouvain · University of Karachi				[sources]
Religion	Islam				[sources]
Status	Deceased				[sources]
Source link	sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov · web.archive.org				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-11	Last processed	2025-12-11	First seen	2023-04-20

Descriptions

A person of public interest, who died in 2021 (Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02997-3).

— DPRK Reports non-official source, 2023-08-08

(also HAYDER ZAMAN)

— US SAM Procurement Exclusions, 2025-07-23

(also ABDUL QADEER KHAN)

— US SAM Procurement Exclusions, 2025-07-23

Associated with the A.Q. Khan Nuclear Proliferation Network

— US Trade Consolidated Screening List (CSL), 2024-11-21

Pakistani nuclear engineer (1936–2021)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-06-24

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
United States	Office of Foreign Assets Control		-	-

Data sources

DPRK Reports5,502

A database of entities and events related to North Korea's sanctions evasion efforts.

United Kingdom · RUSI · non-official source

US SAM Procurement Exclusions105,780

A database of suppliers who have been excluded from participating in US federal procurement.

United States · GSA

US Trade Consolidated Screening List (CSL)23,439

The Consolidated Screening List (CSL) is a list of parties for which the United States Government maintains restrictions on certain exports, re-exports, or transfers of items.

United States · ITA

Taiwan Strategic High-Tech Commodities Entity List9,987

Entities subject to export restrictions due to concerns about the end-use or end-users, particularly relating to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or other military applications.

Taiwan · MOEA

US OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List35,565

The primary United States' sanctions list, specially designated nationals (SDN) part.

United States · OFAC

External databases

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Wikidata353,624

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: trade-csl-2d2db09c686e4829d0ef1b0b04145eec3d42cd88 · trade-csl-07d92f24b0beb400c552cc3f4ae8bef29bfbbc5e6863524a199645fc · usgsa-s4mr3q4m6 · kprusi-2b9fb991d578aeb8fe2d5f510c44b30de95cf298 · trade-csl-32f361d2f26066223ba181bf86da145546f4d410def547d15ebada74 · tw-shtc-50335a8a522cd6c7703f320bb4c8000a0b918254 · ofac-11357 · usgsa-s4mr3r7n5 · tw-shtc-bfbfd9bc971f6d134ba32fb81a1b15eccc06e81a

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