Memogate: what next?
31.12.69
Former ISI Chief Lieutenant General Shuja Pasha recently appeared before the Memogate Commission and recorded his testimony. He told the Commission that on the direction of Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, he had met Mansoor Ijaz in the Pearl Continental Hotel, London, on October 22, 2011. The meeting continued for four hours.
The former ISI chief reiterated that he had briefed both the army chief and the president on the meeting — General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on October 24th last year and President Asif Ali Zardari on November 13.
General Pasha also said he had seen the 35 BlackBerry messages (BBM) between Ijaz and Husain Haqqani during his meeting with the former.
Concerning the issue, one can faithfully deduce the following observations from General Pasha’s appearance and statement before the Commission.
In the context of current events, it gives one an idea that the ex-ISI chief was committed to the affidavit he had submitted earlier and had not wavered from his principled stance. In other words, he did not give any statement that was contradictory to the affidavit.
Source: The News International