ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani’s
second reply to Supreme Court has been submitted, Attorney General of
Pakistan (AGP) said on Wednesday.
According to the Attorney
General of Pakistan Maulvi Anwar ul Haq, COAS reaffirmed his old stance
in the second reply. In his first reply COAS Kayani had said that the
memo was a reality.
Anwar said that he has not yet received the
affidavit and second reply of DG ISI Shuja Pasha, however added that he
was in contact with him.
Earlier, the court’s nine-member bench
had asked the army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI) chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha to submit their response to
replies submitted by Hussain Haqqani, Mansoor Ijaz and the government.
The
court had also asked the federal government to refute or affirm –
within two days – the positions taken by the ISI and army chief in their
earlier replies.
In the first reply, the COAS stated that the
memo was a reality and a conspiracy was being hatched against the army
and national security.
In the reply General Kayani writes that the Financial Times published Mansoor Ijaz’s story about the memo on October 10. Online
