Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has directed the Foreign Office
and Defence Ministry to provide available information regarding the
memogate scandal to the Parliamentary Committee on National Security.
According to the notification issued by the prime minister secretariat the committee could summon the relevant persons.
Meanwhile the committee will submit its recommendations to prime
minister and prime minister would decide it to present in National
Assembly and Senate.
Chairman Committee Mian Raza Rabbani has cancelled his visit to UK
and the investigation on governmental level is also hand over to the
committee.
Prime minister directed the relevant ministries for full cooperation
with the committee and if needed the committee should summon DG ISI
Ahmad Shuja Pasha and former ambassador Hussain Haqqani and the
committee will start the investigation into the memo in this week.
17 member parliamentary committee is headed by Senator Mian Raza
Rabbani and comprising Senator Babar Awan, Senator Ishaq Dar, Sardar
Mehtab Ahmed Khan, Senator Wasim Sajjad, Haider Abbas Rizvi, Asfandyar
Wali Khan, Maulana Fazalur Rehman, Munir Khan Orakzai, Professor Senator
Khurshid Ahmed, Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, Senator Abdul Rahim
Mandokehl, Senator Israrullah Zehri and Senator Shahid Hussain Bugti.
It is worth mentioning here that the meeting of committee was
summoned by the chairman committee on the letter of PML-N Senator Ishaq
Dar and the common consensus summoned the secretaries of foreign office
and defence ministry for briefing over the memo-age scandal. SANA
