Pakistan’s former ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani has contacted lawyers
to file a defamation case against the US magazine ‘Newsweek/Daily
Beast’ for alleged claim that he had the prior knowledge of Osama bin
Laden (OBL) raid and that he was involved in the memo scandal, on
Wednesday.
Famous Washington lawyers, Attorneys Barentzen and Webster will be
representing Haqqani in matter arising from false media claims about his
prior knowledge of US OBL raid.
The Daily Beast published an article written by US based businessman
Mansoor Ijaz claiming that Haqqani knew about the Abbottabad operation
to target Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Ijaz, in his article, also alleged that the then ambassador Husain
Haqqani was also involved in the controversial memo sent to Adm Mike
Mullen.
Haqqani, in a letter sent to the editor of Newsweek/Daily Beast,
rejected all the allegations levied against him by Mansoor Ijaz and
termed them as “reckless, baseless and false”. SANA
