Pakistan is the 'most dangerous' country in the world right, according to New Yorker magazine.
Quoting noted investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, the magazine said if the US is 'incinerated' any time it will be because of the highly enriched uranium that was supplied to the al Qaida by Islamabad.
In the latest issue of the magazine, Hersh says there is an awful lot of al Qaida sympathy within Pakistan's nuclear programme.
Th New Yorker magazine said: "Right now, the most dangerous country in the world is Pakistan. If we're incinerated next week, it'll be because of the HEU (highly enriched uranium) that was given to al Qaida by Pakistan."
The article, titled: 'What the Administration knew about Pakistan and the North Korean nuclear programme', quoted a top secret CIA document to say that since 1997 Pakistan had been sharing sophisticated technology, warhead design information and weapon-testing data with the Pyongyang regime.
Pakistan, according to the article, was helping North Korea build the bomb.
The document, known as National Intelligence Estimate, was classified as top secret, tightly restricted and was for distribution within the government.
Hersh quoted a former Pakistani official telling him that his government's contacts with North Korea increased dramatically in 1997 when Pakistan's economy had floundered and there was 'no more money' to pay for the North Korean missile support.
It was then that Pakistan had started
paying for missiles by providing 'some of the knowhow and the specifics'
in nuclear bomb technology, according to the official.