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Disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist AQ Khan has been taken to hospital for treatment for fever and low blood pressure, his family and officials say.

His wife Henny told the Reuters news agency that her husband was apparently suffering from an infection but his condition was not serious.

In 2006 doctors operated on Dr Khan for prostate cancer.

Two years earlier, the scientist publicly confessed to leaking nuclear secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea.

He has been kept under virtual house arrest in Islamabad since then, even though President Musharraf later pardoned him.