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For a decade and a half, a Surrey businessman used his two-storey home on a tree-lined street in the Vancouver suburb as a clearinghouse for sensitive equipment he helped smuggle out of the United States and into the hands of Pakistan’s government, according to allegations in a recently unsealed U.S. indictment.The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that Mohammad Jawaid Aziz, a dual Pakistani-Canadian citizen, had been charged with violating and conspiring to violate American export laws by procuring “millions of dollars” worth of items for Pakistan so it could develop its...