According to the sources, the extracts of the Gen. Musharraf’s book appearing in the Press has saddened Dr Khan.

His wife, they said, burst into tears and said that they had not even celebrated the success of Dr Khan’s operation that these news had upset them once again.

“But we will accept this as well, for the sake of the country,” the sources quoted her as saying.

Dr Khan is said to have been recovering well. His stitches have been removed though, he is still feeling a bit of pain, the sources said adding he would stay in Karachi for another week and then sent to Islamabad.

In his remarks about Dr Khan, President Musharraf wrote that Dr Khan had been involved in nuclear proliferation since 1987 and he would oblige anyone who was willing to pay.

He wrote that the nuclear scientist was a “difficult person to deal with” because he had a huge ego and knew how to play to the gallery and manipulate the media.

He described Dr Khan as a man who had a “great talent for self-promotion and publicity and led the public to believe that he was building the bomb almost single-handedly.”

“He was such a self-centred and abrasive man that he could not be a team player.