Mansoor Ijaz ready to face inquiry over memo

KARACHI: Speaking on Geo News programme ‘Lekin’ US businessman of Pakistani origin Mansoor Ijaz said he was ready to face an inquiry over the memo controversy.

Ijaz welcomed calls for the formation of an inquiry commission to investigate the memo controversy and categorically stated that it was Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani who asked him to “do all of this.”

Ijaz said that although Haqqani had denied writing the letter, he did not say that he wasn’t the architect of the letter not has he denied that he did not conceive the letter.

“The day all this happened Haqqani sent me Blackberry messages and asked me call him at his hotel. All sensitive calls were made on land lines and not his cell phone” Ijaz added.