Washington, Nov. 7 -- Former CIA intelligence officer Richard Barlow uncovered the deliberate ignorance of the US, largely ignoring or downplaying repeated warnings about Pakistan's clandestine nuclear weapons development in the 1980s for Pakistani cooperation in funnelling covert military aid to the Afghan mujahideen fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

In a detailed interview with ANI, Barlow, a non-proliferation expert who worked for the CIA, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and the Department of Defence, said that despite having extensive evidence that Pakistan was building atomic weapons through networks led by AQ Khan, the senior US officials were deliberately lying to and misleading Congress.

"We had quite a bit o...