Former COAS Gen Jahangir Karamat received 3 Million $ in bribe from N Korea for Nuclear Technology

[moazzamniaz]

Copy of the letter released by Dr A Q Khan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/documents/north-korea-letter.html

N Korea bribed Pakistanis to get nuclear know-how: Report

By Reuters
Published: July 7, 2011

Report says Dr AQ Khan released copy of letter which reveals payment of $3m to top Pakistani military officials.

WASHINGTON: The father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb said North Korea’s government paid more than $3 million in bribes to top Pakistani military officials to obtain nuclear technology, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
Abdul Qadeer Khan has released a copy of a letter from a North Korean official dated 1998 which details the deal, the Post said.
The letter says that $3 million was paid to one Pakistani military official (Former COAS Gen Jahangir Karamat), while another(Gen Zulfiqar) was given a half-million dollars and some jewelry. It appears to be signed by North Korean Workers Party Secretary Jon Byong, the newspaper said.
In exchange, Khan was expected to give documents on a nuclear program to North Korea, said the Post, which said it was unable to independently verify the account.
Khan has admitted giving centrifuges and drawings that helped North Korea begin the work of making a uranium-based bomb. It already has nuclear weapons made with plutonium.
But Pakistan has accused Khan of acting alone in giving North Korea access to nuclear secrets.
The Post reported that some Western intelligence officials said they believed the letter was authentic, although Pakistani officials say it is a fake.

 

[mrcritic]

(blah)yea perfect timng for this sorta of news isnt it? PFFFT Washington post!

 

[Wadaich]

Copy of the letter released by Dr A Q Khan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/documents/north-korea-letter.html

N Korea bribed Pakistanis to get nuclear know-how: Report

By Reuters
Published: July 7, 2011

Report says Dr AQ Khan released copy of letter which reveals payment of $3m to top Pakistani military officials.

WASHINGTON: The father of Pakistans nuclear bomb said North Koreas government paid more than $3 million in bribes to top Pakistani military officials to obtain nuclear technology, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
Abdul Qadeer Khan has released a copy of a letter from a North Korean official dated 1998 which details the deal, the Post said.
The letter says that $3 million was paid to one Pakistani military official (Former COAS Gen Jahangir Karamat), while another(Gen Zulfiqar) was given a half-million dollars and some jewelry. It appears to be signed by North Korean Workers Party Secretary Jon Byong, the newspaper said.
In exchange, Khan was expected to give documents on a nuclear program to North Korea, said the Post, which said it was unable to independently verify the account.
Khan has admitted giving centrifuges and drawings that helped North Korea begin the work of making a uranium-based bomb. It already has nuclear weapons made with plutonium.
But Pakistan has accused Khan of acting alone in giving North Korea access to nuclear secrets.
The Post reported that some Western intelligence officials said they believed the letter was authentic, although Pakistani officials say it is a fake.

The following comments are on the basis of the assumption that the subject news is authentic and true.

There is no harm in giving some odd documents related to nuclear arms as such material is available in the open and black market. In case, one is to penalize somebody, one must start it from the first ones in the line of this bloody weapon.

However, making a national hero a scapegoat, to shield some bloody general is one of the most heinous crime.

 

[Hatham]

this reuters not washington post, no doubt Dr.Khan saved the 'holy cow' by accepting all accusations only on himself.......

(blah)yea perfect timng for this sorta of news isnt it? PFFFT Washington post!

 

[Pathfinder]

propaganda machine is in full swing against Pakistan. What is Pakistan doing to counter these claims? Absolutely nothing.

 

[Scorpion]

I support Dr. Qadeer for releasing such documents . . . . . Its time to know the truth of how our Generals have made Business Empires . . . . Its time for the slaughter of this Holy Cow ( GHQ ) . . . . . Which dont seems to be holy any more . . . . . . .

 

[change]

American b_a_s_t_e_r_d_s do not talk about their illegal child Isreil who has more nukes than any one else in the world. It is not a secret that US and its puppy UK helped Isreil to develop this technology. So, if Pakistan helped North Korea or Iran what's wrong in it. If North Korea did not have nukes and missile technology, US would have definitly attacked it. And if Japan did have nukes, US would have not dare to bomb Heroshima and Nagasaki. Similarly if Pakistan did not have nukes, India could attack Pakistan. So, for balance of power every country should have nukes. F**king Americans need not to act as International Police to stop a country from getting this technology.

 

[PkRevolution]

Copy of the letter released by Dr A Q Khan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/documents/north-korea-letter.html

N Korea bribed Pakistanis to get nuclear know-how: Report

By Reuters
Published: July 7, 2011

Report says Dr AQ Khan released copy of letter which reveals payment of $3m to top Pakistani military officials.

WASHINGTON: The father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb said North Korea’s government paid more than $3 million in bribes to top Pakistani military officials to obtain nuclear technology, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
Abdul Qadeer Khan has released a copy of a letter from a North Korean official dated 1998 which details the deal, the Post said.
The letter says that $3 million was paid to one Pakistani military official (Former COAS Gen Jahangir Karamat), while another(Gen Zulfiqar) was given a half-million dollars and some jewelry. It appears to be signed by North Korean Workers Party Secretary Jon Byong, the newspaper said.
In exchange, Khan was expected to give documents on a nuclear program to North Korea, said the Post, which said it was unable to independently verify the account.
Khan has admitted giving centrifuges and drawings that helped North Korea begin the work of making a uranium-based bomb. It already has nuclear weapons made with plutonium.
But Pakistan has accused Khan of acting alone in giving North Korea access to nuclear secrets.
The Post reported that some Western intelligence officials said they believed the letter was authentic, although Pakistani officials say it is a fake.

InshaAllah we will provide palastine also nuclear technology, Kuba needs also. moazzam sahb stay in newyork for ever. Keep posting Washingtonpost propaganda. Good job. How much you are paid for it?

 

[moazzamniaz]

InshaAllah we will provide palastine also nuclear technology, Kuba needs also. moazzam sahb stay in newyork for ever. Keep posting Washingtonpost propaganda. Good job. How much you get for it?

I m not a sold out soul like generals!!!

 

[iam61405]

such kind ov propagnda is made or replied whn you got some policy makers who have some agendas , both the short and the long term... but our top officials n govts r impotents ...

 

[Bilal_Mushi]

ISPR is responsible to deny the report or otherwise.............Moazzam is just sharing the news. Be reasonable my friend.

InshaAllah we will provide palastine also nuclear technology, Kuba needs also. moazzam sahb stay in newyork for ever. Keep posting Washingtonpost propaganda. Good job. How much you are paid for it?

 

[BrotherKantu]

It is a sad thing that a corrupt General got money. Pakistan officially should sell this technology to IRAN, TURKEY, LIBYA, SYRIA and any other brother country. Imagine if IRAQ had a nuclear weapons, world could have been a peaceful place today. GOD said keep your horses ready and do not make unbelievers your friend.​

 

[yasir1981]

Everyone will will keep on saying some generals got money and now newspaper is showing that......My only question is Why DR qadeer did not resist at any point if he felt that was wrong......IF generals got money he must have got money as well or Dr Qadeer was doing it for some generous cause for the welfare of pakistan.......DR Qadeer never resisted while giving technology to anyone and he also never resisted while doing apology as well...........DR Qadeer is responsible for all this....He is not the scapegoat he is the real culprit who remained silent if he knew that.......

 

[Bilal_Mushi]

Pakistan denies bribe from N.Korea for nuclear technology

This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on July 7, 2011 and received from Tokyo-based Korean News Service (KNS) shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il (C) looking at parts at the Rakwon Machine Complex in North Pyongan province. – Photo by AFP

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ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani general strongly denied on Thursday a report that he took $3 million in cash in exchange for helping smuggle nuclear technology to North Korea in the late 1990s, while the nation’s foreign office called the story “preposterous.”
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.
“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,” Karamat told Reuters in an email. The story, he said, is “totally false.”
In addition to the payment to Karamat, the letter says former lieutenant general, Zulfiqar Khan, was given a half-million dollars and some jewellery. He also denied the accusation.
“I have not read the story,” Khan told Reuters, “but of course it is wrong.”
The Pakistan Army declined to comment. But 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.”
Despite Pakistani protests, Western intelligence officials said they believed the letter was authentic, the Post reported.
It appears to be signed by North Korean Workers Party Secretary Jon Byong, the newspaper said, and other details match classified information previously unrevealed to the public.
In exchange for the money, generals Karamat and Khan were to help Khan give documents on a nuclear program to North Korea, the Post said.
The newspaper said it was unable to independently verify the account.
Khan has admitted giving centrifuges and drawings that helped North Korea begin making a uranium-based bomb. It already has nuclear weapons made with plutonium.
Former military leader General Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoir that Pakistan and North Korea were involved in government-to-government cash transfers for North Korean ballistic missile technology in the late 1990s, but he insisted there was no official policy of reverse transfer of nuclear technology to Pyongyang.
“I assured the world that the proliferation was a one-man act and that neither the government of Pakistan nor the army was involved,” Musharraf wrote. “This was the truth, and I could speak forcefully.”

Copy of the letter released by Dr A Q Khan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/documents/north-korea-letter.html

N Korea bribed Pakistanis to get nuclear know-how: Report

By Reuters
Published: July 7, 2011

Report says Dr AQ Khan released copy of letter which reveals payment of $3m to top Pakistani military officials.

WASHINGTON: The father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb said North Korea’s government paid more than $3 million in bribes to top Pakistani military officials to obtain nuclear technology, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
Abdul Qadeer Khan has released a copy of a letter from a North Korean official dated 1998 which details the deal, the Post said.
The letter says that $3 million was paid to one Pakistani military official (Former COAS Gen Jahangir Karamat), while another(Gen Zulfiqar) was given a half-million dollars and some jewelry. It appears to be signed by North Korean Workers Party Secretary Jon Byong, the newspaper said.
In exchange, Khan was expected to give documents on a nuclear program to North Korea, said the Post, which said it was unable to independently verify the account.
Khan has admitted giving centrifuges and drawings that helped North Korea begin the work of making a uranium-based bomb. It already has nuclear weapons made with plutonium.
But Pakistan has accused Khan of acting alone in giving North Korea access to nuclear secrets.
The Post reported that some Western intelligence officials said they believed the letter was authentic, although Pakistani officials say it is a fake.

 

[-CSIS-]

Guardian: Pakistani generals 'helped sell nuclear secrets'

The story of the world's worst case of nuclear smuggling took a new twist on Thursday when documents surfaced appearing to implicate two former Pakistani generals in the sale of uranium enrichment technology to North Korea in return for millions of dollars in cash and jewels handed over in a canvas bag and cardboard boxes of fruit.

The source of the documents is AQ Khan, who confessed in 2004 to selling parts and instructions for the use of high-speed centrifuges in enriching uranium to Libya, Iran and North Korea. Extracts were published by the Washington Post, including a letter in English purportedly from a senior North Korean official to Khan in 1998 detailing payment of $3m to Pakistan's former army chief, General Jehangir Karamat, and another half-million to Lieutenant General Zulfiqar Khan, who was involved in Pakistan's nuclear bomb tests.

Both generals denied the allegations. "What can I say. [These are] bits of old info packaged together. [There is] not an iota of truth in the allegations against me. [There is] no reason on earth for anyone to pay me for something I could not deliver," Karamat wrote in an email to the Guardian. Lt Gen Khan told the Washington Post that the documents were "a fabrication".

The issue is seen as critically important by western governments. Seven years after Khan, the godfather of the Pakistani nuclear programme, made his public confession on Pakistani television, there is still uncertainty over the extent to which he was a rogue operator or just a salesman acting on behalf of the Pakistani state and its army. Western officials are also unsure whether the covert nuclear sales are continuing.

One of the documents published on Thursday was allegedly a copy of a 1998 letter in English to him from Jon Byong Ho, then the secretary of the North Korean Workers' party, who is believed to have masterminded the state's covert trade in nuclear and missile technology. The document states that "the $3m have already been paid" to Karamat, and "half a million dollars" and some jewellery had been given to Lt Gen Khan, who went on to run the national water and power company. The Washington Post interviewed senior US officials who said that the document contained "accurate details of sensitive matters known only to a handful of people in Pakistan, North Korea and the United States", and that the substance was "consistent with our knowledge" of the same events.

Khan's smuggling network was broken in 2003, and he delivered a confession on Pakistani television in February 2004 in which he admitted selling centrifuge technology for enriching uranium to Iran, North Korea and Libya to further those countries' nuclear weapons programme. He claimed in his confession that the Pakistani government had not been complicit.

Khan has since said he had been persuaded to absolve the Islamabad government in return for his freedom. He handed over his version of events to a British journalist, Simon Henderson, now an analyst at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Henderson said Khan gave him the North Korean letter "several years ago" as an "insurance policy", but later agreed to have it published.

"I think he wants to set the historical record straight," Henderson said. "This would appear to confirm that Khan was not a rogue operator; secondly, that the military was deeply involved in what he was doing; and that thirdly, it confirms the growing concerns that the Pakistani military is not working in our interests, at best, and is duplicitous at worst."

Among the documents Khan handed over to Henderson was the written account of his activities given to Pakistani investigators in 2004, in which he claims he handed over two deliveries of cash from the North Koreans to Karamat. He said the first payment was for half a million dollars and the balance was paid once details had been agreed on how Pakistan would help Pyongyang develop technology for enriching uranium.

"I personally gave the remaining $2.5m to Gen Karamat in cash at the Army House to make up the whole amount," Khan wrote. According to the Washington Post, he claims to have delivered the money in a canvas bag and three cardboard boxes.

David Albright, an expert on nuclear proliferation and author of a book on AQ Khan's smuggling network, Peddling Peril, said he had obtained the same account some years ago but that no western government had made a judgment on its reliability.

"In these documents, Khan blames everybody else, including [assassinated former prime minister] Benazir Bhutto," Albright said. He added that he still believes Khan was the driving force behind the network, rather than a mere servant of the Pakistani state. "He had tremendous autonomy which he used to build up his network, and he used the corruption of the state to further his goals."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/07/pakistani-generals-helped-sell-nuclear-secrets

 

[PkRevolution]

Re: Guardian: Pakistani generals 'helped sell nuclear secrets'

Guardian, HAHAHA.

 

[ehsanali]

Re: Guardian: Pakistani generals 'helped sell nuclear secrets'

What is HAHAHA?

 

[GeoG]

Re: Aik aur Imandaar (P) General

acha tou nahin lugta but kehna bhee purta hai AK Niazi ko choroo, yaha khan ko bholo, Ayyub Khan ko mutti pao aur tukreebun saray multimillionairs Generals of Pakistan ko bholli, but zara latest news pay nazar rukho; aik aur Punjabi imndaar General Jahangir Karamt ki karaamt-e-khaas.

In Sab Kay Do Baap Thay
Aik Ziaulhaq Aur Dosra General Bhagora Musharraf
Dono Charyay

 

[Proudmuslim]

Re: Guardian: Pakistani generals 'helped sell nuclear secrets'

What is HAHAHA?

"HAHAHA" is when someone found something funny :P

 

[hawkeyeblue]

Re: Aik aur Imandaar (P) General

Whats the news ?