No clash between Pakistan’s institutions: Zardari (Lead)
January 7th, 2012 - 6:08 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Jan 7 (IANS) President Asif Ali Zardari has denied any conflict between the government and the judiciary or the army, saying there is an evolution process going on, the Associated Press of Pakistan reported.
“You think it is clash, but I say it is part of evolution,” said the Pakisan president in an interview with a private TV channel to be telecast Saturday.
Zardari, in the interview’s excerpts released Friday, said: “After this evolution process, it (atmosphere) will simmer down.”
About the memo case being investigated by the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) and by a judicial commission constituted by the Supreme Court, the president said: “Let the two decisions come”.
“In my view, the parliament is sovereign,” he added.
Pakistani American businessman Mansoor Ijaz claims to have delivered a memo to the then US military chief Gen. Mike Mullen last May at the behest of the then Pakistan ambassador to US Husain Haqqani and the government to avert a likely military coup.
A 17-member parliamentary panel — PCNS — is investigating the memo allegedly sent to US authorities that Zardari feared a coup after Osama bin Laden’s May 2 killing at Abbottabad near Islamabad.
Also, a three-member judicial commission headed by Balochistan High Court Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa is probing the scandal.
It has summoned Zardari, Pakistan Army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence Ahmed Shuja Pasha, and Husain Haqqani, among others, at its next hearing Jan 9.
On giving extension to army chief Kayani, Zardari said in the interview it is now a question of history.
About trial of former president Pervez Musharraf, Zardari said: “I did not want to demoralise army.”
Zardari, at a meeting of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Senators and members of National Assembly Friday night, said he saw no threat to democracy but “no matter what happened the Pakistan Peoples Party will not disappoint the nation and the people will find us fully prepared to face any eventuality with courage and determination”.
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