A British daily has confirmed that the founder of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program sent a secret letter to his wife that outlined his country’s sale of nuclear technology to Libya, Iran, China and North Korea.

The Sunday edition of The Times says Abdul Qadeer Khan’s smuggled letter was four pages long, dated December tenth 2003, and addressed to Khan’s Dutch wife.

Part of the letter related to North Korea says that a now-retired general from Pakistan took three million dollars through Khan from the North Koreans and asked Khan to give him some drawings and machines.

Khan also said the first customer for one of Pakistan’s uranium enrichment facilities was China, who in the past supplied enriched uranium to Pakistan.

The Pakistani scientist and 'father of the Islamic bomb’ was arrested in December 2003 for proliferating nuclear secrets to rogue states. In 2004 he made a televised confession that he operated a secret network for nuclear cooperation with Iran, Libya and North Korea, a claim he later withdrew.