US officials say they have intelligence that Pakistan’s powerful spy agency ISI ordered the killing of a Pakistani journalist who had written scathing reports about Islamist militants having infiltrated into the country’s military.

In what has been described as an American conspiracy to malign Pakistan, US officials say they have intelligence that the country's powerful spy agency, the ISI, ordered the killing of a Pakistani jou

President Asif Ali Zardari has expressed “deep grief and sorrow” over the abduction and murder of journalist Saleem Shahzad and ordered an investigation into the killing.