Memo Commission’s report stated that the memorandum was real which was drafted byformer ambassador of Pakistan to the US, Hussain Haqqani, the Supreme Court (SC) was told.
The Memo Commission report was presented before the nine member larger bench of the Supreme Court here on Tuesday.
Attorney General Irfan Qadir read out the contents of the report
before the nine member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice
Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
According to the report, the memo was real and was written by
Pakistan’s former Ambassador to US Husain Haqqani to seek the American
support for the civilian government in Pakistan. The aim of the Memo was
to demonstrate that the civilian government in Pakistan is a friend of
the United States.
The report observed that the Ambassador contravened the constitution
of Pakistan. It said Haqqani was not loyal to Pakistan as he had left
the country and living abroad. He had no bank accounts in Pakistan and
he preferred to live in the United States. He was also getting two
million dollars annually from the United States.
The court summoned the former ambassador to appear in the next
hearing and adjourned the case for two weeks. In this connection,
notices were also issued to the concerned parties.
The sealed report presented by Memo Commission was read out to the apex court’s nine-member bench.
The report said the former ambassador was a functionary of government
of Pakistan but, he was not loyal to the country, adding he used to
elicit 2 million US dollars annually from the US government.
He does not like to live in Pakistan as his interests rest with the
US and its government, the report notes adding none of his properties
exists in Pakistan.
Haqqani forgot that he is an ambassador of Pakistan, it added.
“Hussain Haqqani is not loyal to Pakistan,” the report asserts adding he wanted to become the head of new security team.
The report said Hussain Haqqani violated the Constitution of Pakistan
only to prove that the civil government in Islamabad is a friend to the
US and can help the US in its non-proliferation efforts.
The bench directed the report should be issued to all the petitioners and the media.
The court issued orders to the former ambassador to appear before the court in the next hearing.
Directing the report be made public, the apex court adjourned the proceedings for two weeks.
The bench led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry also
comprises Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan, Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja,
Justice Khilji Arif Hussain, Justice Tariq Parvez, Justice Asif Saeed
Khan Khosa, Justice Amir Hani Muslim, Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry and
Justice Sh. Azmat Saeed.
The Memo Commission, completing its proceedings in five months and 10
days, presented its report in sealed covers to the apex court.
It is pertinent to note here that Supreme Court formed a three-member
memo commission headed by Balochistan High Court Chief Justice, Justice
Qazi Faiz Issa last year on December 30 to probe the memo scandal.
Ijaz accused the former ambassador Haqqani of approaching him to
write a memo to the US official seeking support for the civilian
government in the wake of Abbottabad raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.
The commission, running 24 marathon sessions and recoding statements
of scores of concerned persons including that of the prime character
Mansoor Ijaz’s on video link, prepared the report. The report
incorporated over 300 evidences in it.
Meantime, the statement of the former ambassador Haqqani could not be
recorded as he sought video link facility, like Ijaz on the pretext of
security, which the commission didn’t accede. Later on, Haqqani despite
repeated summons, refused to come to Pakistan. A nine-member larger
bench heard the identical petitions on the memogate case in the Supreme
Court (SC) Tuesday where the report submitted by the commission was
presented, Geo News reported.
The bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, was
constituted on Monday after the commission on the memogate scandal,
constituted by the apex court on December 30, 2011, submitted its report
on June 11, 2012, in a sealed envelope. The bench opened the report and
read out its content. SANA
