Islamabad : Pakistan has denied the story of Washington Post which claimed that a Pakistani General has took a bribe of $3 million in cash in exchange for helping smuggle nuclear technology to North Korea in the late 1990s.
Earlier The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb, had released a copy of a letter from a North Korean official dated
1998 detailing a $3 million payment to Pakistan’s then-chief of army staff, General Jehangir Karamat.Pakistan Foreign office called the story as “preposterous.” on the other hand General Jehangir Karamat in a response via an email to Reuters said the the story is totally false “I was not in the loop for any kind of influence and I would have to be mad to sanction transfer of technology and for Dr Khan to listen to me”
Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tehmina Janjua told reporters at a weekly press briefing that “such stories have a habit of recurring and my only comment is that this is totally baseless and preposterous.”
In the response Dr A.Q Khan told Reuters that “I have not read the story, but of course it is wrong.”
