Pak govt sanctioned Shahzad death,says Mullen

Admiral Mike Mullen,chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,said the beating death of Pakistani reporter,Saleem Shahzad and the reported abuse of other journalists is no way for a government to move ahead.

He said it is a way to spiral in the wrong direction.

Shahzads death was widely blamed on Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence agency,but the ISI has denied it.

His death was followed a few weeks later by the beating of another Pakistani journalist by men wearing police uniforms.

Mullen is the first top leader from the United States to publicly link the killing to Pakistans government.

N Korea paid Pakistan for nuclear tech: A Q Khan

The founder of Pakistans nuclear weapons program claims that in the late 1990s,North Korean officials paid kickbacks to senior Pakistani military figures in exchange for critical weapons technology.

Abdul Qadeer Khan has given a US-based expert some documents that appear to show North Koreas government paid more than 3.5 million to two Pakistani military officials as part of the deal,the expert said on Wednesday.

To back up his claim,Khan released a copy of a North Korean officials 1998 letter to him,in English,that purports to describe the secret deal. The letter,along with a statement by Khan describing the deal,suggests that some top-level Pakistani military officials knew about some of Khans extensive sale of nuclear weapons technology to North Korea,Iran and Libya.