Islamabad: The government on Monday submitted its rejoinder to the
Supreme Court of Pakistan over Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez
Kayani, ISI chief Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja Pasha and Mansoor
Ijaz’s sworn affidavits into memogate case.
Attorney General
Maulvi Anwarul Haq on behalf of the Interior Ministry submitted the
18-page rejoinder with SC. The governmnet has termed memo as pile of
lies. The government said that Mansoor Ijaz tried to pit Pakistan’s
institution against each other, adding that governmnet didn’t not take
resignation from Hussain Haqqani instead he himself tendered his
resignation.
It said Haqqani had said in letter to the president
written on December 16 that he wanted to resign from the post in the
national interest.
The interior ministry said that the prime
minister and the president had denied any links with the content of the
alleged memo. It added that there was no security threat to the country
due to a piece of paper(memo).
The army chief and ISI chief had
in their depositions called for thorough investigation into the
memogate. They had said that the memogate was a threat to national
security. Online
