India, Nov. 24 -- Former CIA operations chief James Lawler has revealed dramatic details of how Pakistan's then-president Pervez Musharraf reacted when confronted with evidence that physicist Abdul Qadeer Khan was selling Pakistan's nuclear secrets abroad, calling it a decisive moment in dismantling one of the world's most dangerous proliferation networks.

Lawler, renowned for helping expose and sabotage AQ Khan's global nuclear trafficking operations, said in an interview with ANI that CIA director George Tenet personally briefed Musharraf with "absolutely incontrovertible evidence" that Khan had been leaking sensitive nuclear technology to countries such as Libya.

According to Lawler, Tenet told Musharraf that Khan "was betraying Paki...