Sorry, you’re wrong Gen: US

Refuting President Pervez Musharraf’s claim, the US State Department said on Tuesday it had provided Pakistani officials with evidence of a black market in nuclear technology for years.

Apart from general concerns, US officials turned over ‘‘pieces of information’’ from time to time, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said.

While reluctant to expose US intelligence activities, Boucher said: ‘‘We have talked to them at different moments about different issues that might have arisen that we might have learned about.’’ Boucher added: ‘‘Certainly our nonproliferation dialogue with Pakistan goes back much farther than that.’’ ‘‘We have discussed non-proliferation issues with Pakistan repeatedly over a long period of time, and it’s been an issue of concern to us and to President Musharraf, as well,” the spokesman said.