Haqqani’s summoning by memo comm challenged in SC

ISLAMABAD: Memo Commission’s summoning Husain Haqqani has been challenged in the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Geo News reported.

Demanding equal treatment, the former envoy to US who was neck-deep in the memogate scandal has requested the honorable court to record his testimony via video-link from London as in the case of his accuser, American business tycoon, Mansoor Ijaz.

One of Haqqani’s counsels, Sajid Tanoli filed the petition on his client’s behalf.

In addition to that, the copy of the petition as well as an 82-page statement has been sent to the Judicial Commission formed to memogate scandal.

Earlier, the three-member judicial commission, had declined to the request of Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States to record through a video link in London and directed him to appear before the commission in Islamabad.

The star witness in this controversy, Mansoor Ijaz, while responding to a question of the commission during his cross-examination, had said that Husain Haqqani was power-hungry to an extent that he wanted to replace the President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari.