Husain Haqqani, the man at the centre of the memogate scandal, had tried to involve Benazir Bhutto in a similar conspiracy during the first tenure of her government at the instance of Nawaz Sharif, when he was the media head of Nawaz’s government, former Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief Brig (r) Imtiaz Ahmad has alleged.
In an interview to a private TV channel, Ahmad said that Haqqani had prepared and sent a fake letter purported to be written by Benazir Bhutto as prime minister of Pakistan against the country’s nuclear programme and the army.
“Hussain Haqqani was the central character in a Memogate-like scandal against former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in 1989,” Ahmad said, adding that at that time Nawaz Sharif was the chief minister in Punjab and Haqqani was the head of his media team with vast resources at his disposal.
The former IB chief alleged that Haqqani had manipulated Benazir’s signature on a fake letter and after photocopying it, launched a campaign to declare Benazir “anti-Pakistan” and a security risk.
Ahmad said that at that time he was holding an important position in Punjab and had expressed strong reservations over it.
About the ongoing memo scandal, he said there “is no doubt that WikiLeaks and Mansoor Leaks (Mansoor Ijaz) are the twins of the CIA”, adding that for the past one year these two were being effectively used against Pakistan’s defence institutions with the purpose to weaken and destabilise Pakistan.
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