Citing a senior Government officials and Congress, the newspaper said the charge came in late June through a diplomatic protest to the Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and other important leaders of that country.
The allegation, made amid growing concern about the increasingly rapid development Pakistani conventional and nuclear weapons, sparking a new round of tensions between the U.S. and Pakistan, the report said.
There is a concerted effort to make these types lower their speed, said one of government officials was quoted as saying. Their energies are misdirected, would have added the official.
A leading Pakistani official called the accusation incorrect, saying that the missile tested was developed by Pakistan, as had been modified about North Korea, designed to build a series of missiles that could strike Earth India, the Times said.
U.S. officials said the weapon at issue was a conventional type, based on Harpoon anti-ship missiles, which were sold to Pakistan during the administration of former President Ronald Reagan as a defensive weapon, the newspaper reported.
But the allegations took place when the Obama administration is looking Congressional approval of $ 7,500 million in aid to Pakistan over the next five years.
The accusation comes from detections made by U.S. intelligence agencies of a suspected missile test on 23 April, which was never announced by the Pakistanis and that seems to give a new offensive weapon, the Times said.
(Writing by Chris Michaud, editing by Anthony Barker Spanish)
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