Mansoor Ijaz, star witness in Memogate case, has alleged that President Asif Ali Zardari had asked Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on May 2 night not to send F-16 aircraft to bring down US choppers carrying Navy SEALS commandos who killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad.
He was talking to media before appearing before the memo commission via a video link from London. He claimed that a telephonic conversation between Zardari and Kayani took place on May 2 night. Ijaz claimed that Zardari had given permission to the US for killing bin Laden in Pakistan.
Ijaz added that a media campaign was run against him at the behest of the President. He said that he would sue those who had been writing against him. Defence lawyers have been cross-examining Ijaz since Thursday after he recorded his statement to the judicial commission headed by Balochistan High Court Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa.