Asma Jehangir says General Pasha should have resigned after May 2 incident

Asma Jehangir says General Pasha should have resigned after May 2 incident

Hussain Haqqani’s legal advisor in the controversial Memogate case, Ms Asma Jehangir said on Monday that the Director General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja Pasha should have stepped down from the coveted post after May
2 incursion in Abbottabad that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

While talking to the media reporters after the hearing of memo scandal at Supreme Court of Pakistan, Ms Jehangir questioned General Shuja Pasha’s tour to America in order to investigate the matter embroiling former envoy to US Hussain Haqqani and the Pakistan
president Asif Ali Zardari.

“Who gave him the authority to do it?” asked Haqqani’s counsel during a media encounter outside the Supreme Court.

“I hope our politicians realize where they are taking the country by blindly pursuing the Memogate case,” an annoyed Asma Jehangir added further.

She also told the media reporters the American-Pakistani businessman Mansoor Ijaz’s e-mail, which he had sent to the registrar as part of his reply, has reached the court while the supplicants will get the replies by midnight.

Haqqani’s legal advisor said that it is a sensitive issue and requested the Supreme Court to examine the matter carefully and give ample time to the stakeholders involved in the scandal.

“This matter should be examined with care and the court should provide ample time to all the stakeholders to get their part of the story across,” she said.

Jehangir said that she had subjected the order in the Memogate case to criticism and would continue to do so in her arguments. She said that Ijaz had himself stated that he would defend the interest of US.

Ms Jehangir also criticized media for giving undue attentions to Mansoor Ijaz’s claims and called him “darling of media”.

The Memogate scandal began when Admiral Mike Mullen confirmed the existence of a controversial memo, allegedly sent by President Zardari via a trusted source. Former ambassador to the US Haqqani resigned after it was alleged that he involved in the controversy.

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