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Memogate: Cornered Haqqani meets Zardari Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani met Asif Ali Zardari here on Sunday over a secret memo to Washington claiming that the President had feared a military coup. Geo News reported that Haqqani held talks with Zardari at the presidency. Pakistani businessman Mansoor Ijaz alleged in a column in the Financial Times last month that a senior Pakistani diplomat asked for help in getting a message from Zardari to then chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen. Meanwhile, according to a media report, ISI chief, Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, met Mansoor Ijaz in London last month to verify the authenticity of the controversial memo delivered by him to former US military chief Admiral Mike Mullen that has rocked civil military relationship in Pakistan. The ISI later declared that the memo as an authentic document that sought US help to purge present military and intelligence structure and drastically alter security paradigm in the country by severing ties with the Taliban and bringing Pakistan’s nuclear assets under strict watch. Army chief Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani confronted President Zardari with the memo in a one-on-one meeting on November 15 and called for impartial probe into Mansoor Ijaz that Haqani had dictated him the memo while assuring him that it had President’s blessing. Top opposition leaders including Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan has endorsed General Kayani’s demand that an independent investigation be instituted to ascertain the truth. English daily The News Sunday disclosed that Pasha met Pakistani-American business tycoon Mansoor Ijaz on October 22 in a London hotel and grilled him for four hours to establish authenticity of his claim that Haqqani had dictated him the memo. When asked by The News to confirm whether the official who met him on October 22 was the ISI chief himself, Mansoor Ijaz simply said: ‘Yes’. Ijaz has been saying in several statements in the past few days that the full data and evidence was given to the official including records of phone calls, SMS messages, BBM chat exchanges, emails etc.
— PTI
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