Mansoor Ijaz claims knowing Husain Haqqani for more than 12 years

Mansoor Ijaz claims knowing Husain Haqqani for more than 12 years

Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, who is at the centre of the Memogate scandal with Ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani, has alleged that he has known the ambassador for more than 11-12 years and that his claims of having met him three or four
times were a “flat lie”.

Speaking on the Memogate scandal, Ijaz said that the people of Pakistan had to ask themselves why such a herculean effort was being made to cover it all up.

“Why is it that every lie that has been told so far has been recanted? Why is it that Haqqani orchestrated the denial from the foreign office and when that failed he tried it through the presidency?”

Who ordered the memo?

Ijaz said that it was a “conspiracy of the making of Haqqani and his boss or his bosses”. Responding to a question on who was “minding” Haqqani, Ijaz said that President Asif Ali Zardari was involved, who now had esteemed advice from lawyers in the US and
Pakistan.

“There is a desperate attempt going on in Pakistan to create a firewall inside the PPP (Pakistan Peoples Party) government between Haqqani and the president.”

Ijaz said that it was his view that the president had explained his problem to Haqqani after the May 1 raid in Abbottabad and that Haqqani had given his assurance that he would “take care of it”.

“I do not believe today that Zardari had any knowledge of the specifics of the memo… I do believe he gave a blanket approval to Haqqani”. Ijaz alleged that Haqqani was not in Washington DC when the raid had taken place.

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