PML-N requests Supreme Court to summon Pakistan ambassador to the UK in the Memo-gate case

PML-N requests Supreme Court to summon Pakistan ambassador to the UK in the Memo-gate case

Islamabad (December 17); With the memo-gate scandal already claiming attention of the entire political lot in the country, PML-N, the leading opposition party in the national assembly has requested the Supreme Court to summon Pakistan’s envoy to the UK Wajid
Shamsul Hasan who had claimed having prior knowledge about the May 2 operation in Abbottabad.

The applicants – Senator Ishaq Dar and MNA Khwaja Asif – requested the court to club the application with the memogate case and summon Pakistan’s High Commissioner to the UK Wajid Shamsul Hasan for his testimony on the events leading up to the Abbottabad
raid that had killed al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.

Officially, they said, the Pakistani authorities gave the impression that nobody knew about the raid before it took place. But Wajid Shamsul Hasan, in his interviews, stated otherwise.

“Pakistan had at least 8 to 10 days advance knowledge of the May 2 operation” and it “assisted in terms of authorisation of the helicopter flights in our airspace”, the applicants quoted Hasan as saying in interviews with foreign television news channels.
According to them, Hasan also said that Pakistan knew about Bin Laden’s whereabouts and had helped the Americans get him.

The applicants said Mehreen Zahra also quoted Mansoor Ijaz in the December 3 issue of
Newsweek that “Ambassador Haqqani and President Asif Ali Zardari had prior knowledge of the US stealth mission to eliminate Osama bin Laden.”

They requested the court to ensure Hasan’s presence through the ministry of foreign affairs for an examination by the court itself or any commission so appointed by the court for the purpose.

In an interview with India’s NDTV, Hasan said: “Pakistan intelligence agencies – like the CIA – had been monitoring him. And they had known where he was. And that’s how the Americans reached him. The Americans could not have reached him without our help.”

The two PML-N legislators asked the court to also restrain Hasan from travelling abroad, after he comes to Pakistan, unless the court satisfies itself of the entire background of the raid. They also asked the court to summon two journalists, Shaheen Sehbai
and Mohammad Malick, who had reported on Hasan’s claim that the Pakistani authorities knew about the Bin Laden raid in advance.

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