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ISLAMABAD: Mansoor Ijaz has agreed to appear on Jan 16 before the judicial commission probing the memo issue, FTNews reported on Monday.
The commission comprising chief justices of three high courts continued its working here in the presence of cameras and microphones recording the proceeding officially.
Pakistan’s former ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani, was also present before the commission.
Advocate Akram Shaikh, the counsel for Ijaz, confirmed his client’s availability to appear before the commission on Jan 16, but said that his arrival depended on the condition that the Blackberry conversation between Ijaz and Haqqani was made available to investigating authorities.
Shaikh said that Ijaz had already issued a legal notice to the telephone company for making the conversation available. According to the company, Haqqani’s consent was also needed to provide access to the conversation, he said.
When asked regarding his client’s consent, Haqqani’s lawyer Zahid Bukhari did not give a clear answer.
Advocate Shaikh also alleged that his client was not being issued the visa to Pakistan in Europe.
Responding to Shaikh’s complaint, the commission directed concerned authorities in England to issue Ijaz a visa without delay.
A foreign ministry official told the commission that no application for the issuance of a visa had been filed by Ijaz.
Moreover, the attorney general began his arguments by reading out Ijaz’s email of Jan 1. He claimed that Ijaz had refused to go to the United States for the visa.
Shaikh also provided the commission with a petition filed in a session court for arresting Ijaz and said that a false case was being registered against his client to intimidate him.
Moreover, a written statement of Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani was also submitted to the commission.
Brigadier Naubahar of the GHQ’s JAG branch was representing the army chief and DG ISI Ahmed Shuja Pasha.
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