Pakistan government may have sanctioned Saleem Shehzad's death: Mullen

Washington: U.S. military official said the biggest Admiral Mike Mullen, said on Thursday that the Pakistani government has authorized the killing of Pakistani journalist, expressing deep concern over the attack. 

In response to a question about media reports that Islamabad sanctions or agreed to the killing of the journalist: "I have not seen anything that would be written this report."
He said he was concerned about the incident and suggested that other journalists have suffered a similar fate in the past.
"His (death) is not the first. For any reason, they were used historically as a means," said Mullen told reporters at the Pentagon event, the Press Association.

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