Senator Khurshid Ahmed of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal has complained to the Senate Standing Committee on Rules, Procedures and Privileges that security agencies did not let him meet nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan in Aga Khan Hospital, Karachi. The senator said Senate Chairman Muhammadmian Soomro, who is currently acting president while Gen Pervez Musharraf is in the United States, had arranged the meeting but still security agencies disallowed it. The standing committee is scheduled to meet on September 28. Mr Ahmed said he wanted to convey "prayers and the felicitations" to Dr Khan.