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Saturday, December 17, 2011
PML-N urges SC to summon Wajid* Petition prays court to summon two senior journalists to assist it in memo case
By Hasnaat Malik
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz legislators Ishaq Dar and Khwaja Asif jointly filed a miscellaneous application in the Supreme Court on Friday, with a plea to summon Pakistan’s High Commissioner to United Kingdom Wajid Shamsul Hasan as well as two Pakistani journalists in the memogate case.
The petitioners claimed that during his interaction with foreign media, Wajid Shamsul Hassan had refused to rule out the possibility that Pakistani leadership, both civilian and military, might have been “aware beforehand” about the May 2 midnight operation in Abbottabad, in which the US killed al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
They prayed the SC to direct Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ensure the presence of Hassan in Pakistan as well as bar him from proceeding abroad unless exonerated by the SC or a commission of the apex court in the case. They further said that impression officially given out by the relevant civil authorities was that Pakistan knew nothing about the Abbottabad operation until after it had been actually accomplished.
The petitioners have also cited Muhammad Malik, editor of a national English daily, who had said that he had authored numerous informative reports on the memogate scandal, two of which he coauthored with Shaheen Sehbai.
The petitioners prayed the SC to summon Malik and Sehbai to assist the court in the matter. They said that at least two reports by Sehbai quoted Hassan’s interview with CNN, BBC and CDTV, in which he said that Pakistan had at least 8 to 10 days advance knowledge of the May 2 operation in Abbottabad. The application contends that the high commissioner had also claimed that Pakistan had helped the Americans identify Bin Laden’s location.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk