ISLAMABAD: Media Adviser to the President, Farah Naz Ispahani, who is also the wife of Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani, allegedly involved in a controversy over a secret memo sent to the Obama administration, on Monday, defended her husband and said the pair is ready to face legal action pertaining to the memo controversy.
Ispahani said she and her husband want "an investigation" into the matter and were ready to cooperate in the forensic investigation of Husain Haqqani’s blackberry phone and computer".
"Whatever guidance is given to us by our senior leadership, we will take it, but personally if the senior leadership allows us, we will go in for libel," she added.
It is pertinent to mention that having purportedly “convinced” the president of his alibi on the memo controversy, Husain Haqqani is likely to face the troika – the president, the prime minister, and the army chief.
She expressed these views while talking to the media outside the Supreme Court here on Monday.
While raising doubts over the credibility of the Pakistani American businessman Mansoor Ijaz who claimed that Haqqani asked him to deliver the memo to Admiral Mike Mullen in May this year, she said that Haqqani was prepared to sue Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, who has claimed the memo was drafted and delivered on the envoy's instructions.
She described Ijaz as "a citizen of another country" whose allegations "make me believe he is working against Pakistan's democracy" and added, “He is a foreign national who is blaming us and attacking Pakistan’s democracy.”
Turning down that the allegations baseless, she said that they were not scared of the issue and were not fleeing Dubai or Washington, vowing that the pair is ready for Pakistani and American courts because they have nothing to hide.
Ijaz hit out at the ambassador on challenging the authenticity of the memo and ruled out any missing links in the authenticity chain, adding that he was an “ultra wealthy” individual who handles his own investments and would sue anyone for slandering him using the best lawyers from London, New York and Switzerland.
Local media reports implicated Haqqani in a memo allegedly sent from Zardari to Mullen, US’s then top military officer, after the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden on May 2, sought American assistance to stave off a possible military coup.
The alleged memo, released last month by Ijaz, said that a “new national security team” in Pakistan - with US support — could end ties between Pakistani intelligence and militants.
Copyright PPI (Pakistan Press International), 2011
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