Mansoor to appear before commission on 16th
10 January, 2012
ISLAMABAD: The commission, investigating the alleged memo, ordered the authorities to provide a small security unit of either police or army to US businessman, Mansoor Ijaz upon his arrival.
Ijaz's lawyer Akram Sheikh said his client would be present before the commission at 9:00 am on January 16.
The memo commission on Monday ordered to issue visa to Mansoor Ijaz. Ijaz's lawyer Akram Sheikh told the commission that his client was not being issued visa for Pakistan. The commission asked the Attorney General of Pakistan to issue visa to Mansoor Ijaz.
The AGP told the memo commission that Pakistan High Commission in United Kingdom has been directed to issue visa for Mansoor Ijaz as soon as it receives application.
He told the commission that embassy in Washington did not receive visa application by the main character in memo scam Mansoor Ijaz.
Akram Sheikh further said that Mansoor Ijaz has agreed to appear on January 16 before the judicial commission probing the memo issue. 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.
The court also sought an assurance from Interior Secretary Khawaja Siddiq Akbar that Mansoor Ijaz would not be involved in any case on his arrival in Pakistan to which the Interior Secretary expressed inability.
He said he can do so after consultation with the Law Division. The Commission took a serious view of this statement by the Interior Secretary and told him that action can be taken against him for contempt of court and directed him not to leave the court room till its adjournment.
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