Pakistani official to meet Ijaz in London
February 19th, 2012 - 3:21 pm ICT by IANSIslamabad, Feb 19 (IANS) An official of the commission probing the memo scandal has left for London to collect evidence from Pakistani American businessman Mansoor Ijaz.
Commission secretary Raja Jawad Abbas will also review the arrangements for Ijaz’s Feb 22 video conference deposition, Geo News reported Sunday.
The panel will meet Feb 22 to record Ijaz’s statement.
Ijaz claimed to have last year delivered a secret memo to then chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff Admiral Mike Mullen at the behest of then Pakistani envoy to the US Husain Haqqani and the Pakistani government, triggering a scandal that generated much heat in the country.
The memo said that Zardari feared a military coup after Osama bin Laden was killed May 2 last year at his hideout in Abbottabad by US commandos.
The Supreme Court had set up a three-member commission to probe the scandal.
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