15th February 2012:
The Pakistani Supreme Court, currently investigating the so called Memogate case, is to use a video conference link to the Pakistan High commission London, in order to examine Mansoor Ijaz.
A few days after the shooting of Osami Bin Laden, Mansoor Ijaz, an American-Pakistani businessman with a long history of commentary on Pakistani affairs and attempts at back-door diplomacy, delivered a memo to Jim jones, former National security advisor. The document, addressed to Admiral Mike Mullen the then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, asks for the help of the Obama administration to avert a military takeover of the civilian government of Pakistan.
Ijaz alleges that he was asked by the then - now former - Pakistan Ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani, to deliver the document, at the request of the President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari. The Supreme Court's enquiry is into the origins, credibility and purpose of the memo.
Subsequent to the original memo, Mansoor Ijaz has given his view that Husain Haqqani, who is now banned from leaving Pakistan, together with President Zardari both knew in advance that American forces were going to voiolate Pakistan sovereignity in their action against Bin Laden, a claim that is strenuosly refuted and denied by Haqqani, together with the allegation of his involvement in the memo itself.