Top US lawmakers had expressed concern over Pakistan’s proliferation history and its nexus with rogue nations like North Korea in helping them acquire nuclear weapons, a month before Pyongyang successfully conducted its first hydrogen bomb test. The issue came up for discussion during a Congressional hearing less than a month ago when top American Congressmen opposed the idea of a civil nuclear deal with Pakistan as they pointed to efforts of Pakistan officials in the past to share the sensitive nuclear technologies to countries like Libya and North Korea. “A Q Khan Network is believed to have sold sensitive nuclear technology to the most unstable countries on the planet,” Congressman Ted Poe, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade, said during a Congressional hearing on December 8, 2015. A Q Khan is the founder of the uranium enrichment programme for Pakistan’s atomic bomb project. “It was the Khan Network that allowed North Korea to get its uranium enrichment program up and running. Khan also sold Libya design secrets and nuclear weapons components during the same time,” Poe said.