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Concerned over the Lahore High Court's decision to lift all security restrictions on disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist Dr. A Q Khan, former US Vice-President Dick Cheney has said CIA should keep an eye on Dr. Khan. Cheney, who is considered a strong critic of the Obama Administration, said instead of questioning CIA's interrogation techniques, the White House should focus on Khan's activities. Terming the investigation of CIA interrogators as an 'outrageous political act', Cheney said it was very important to assure that Khan is not able to resume his nefarious activities. "The courts in Pakistan have ruled that A.Q. Khan, the father of the Pakistan nuclear weapon, who provided assistance to the Iranians, the North Koreans, the Libyans, has now been released from custody.It's very, very important we find out and know long-term what he's up to. He's so far the worst proliferator of nuclear technology in recent history," Cheney said. Commenting on the Bush Administration's decision to use unmanned Predator aircrafts to strike Taliban and other extremists in the tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border by, he said he was 'very proud' of such decision. "Marrying up the intelligence platform with weapons is something we started in August of 2001. It's been enormously successful. And they were successful the other day in killing Baitullah Mehsud, which - I think all of those are pluses," Cheney said during a recorded interview to Fox News. Supporting CIA's interrogation techniques, Cheney said it was due to that policy there were no major terrorist attack in US since 9/11. My sort of overwhelming view is that the enhanced interrogation techniques were absolutely essential in saving thousands of American lives, in preventing further attacks against the United States, in giving us the intelligence we needed to go find Al Qaeda, to find their camps, to find out how they were being financed," The Dawn quoted Cheney, as saying. "Such interrogations led to the arrest of nearly all Al Qaeda members now in US custody. I think they were directly responsible for the fact that for eight years we had no further mass casualty attacks against the United States. It was good policy. It was properly carried out. It worked very, very well," he added.

CIA should keep an eye on Pak nuke scientist, says Cheney