Controversial Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz has alleged that supporters of President Asif Ali Zardari are drawing attention to a music video featuring him and scantily clad female wrestlers to tarnish his credibility, Hindustan Times reported.
The video features Ijaz as a commentator at a female wrestling competition and has created a buzz online, with bloggers and netizens putting Ijaz to ridicule.
The businessman, however, has claimed that supporters of Zardari have drawn attention to the clip in an effort to damage his credibility as a witness ahead of his testimony in the scandal, according to an article in the New York Times.
Pakistani blog Cafe Pyala, which unearthed the music video rejected Ijaz’s claim that it drew attention on behalf of either Zardari or former Pakistani ambassador to US Hussain Haqqani.
The bloggers said they wanted to “to assure him (Ijaz) that we do not have Haqqani goading us on and neither do, we think, any of the people on Twitter who first discovered and shared the video out of a love for, ahem, house music.”
“We would like to admit that we did find it — and him in it — really funny.”
They said Ijaz used to appear frequently as a “terror analyst” on TV channel Fox News. The blogger said he remembered seeing Ijaz on Fox News and recognised him as being the same man in the video.
“When I saw him on Fox News ages ago, I was like, ‘That’s that guy from that song,’” the blogger said.
Ijaz failed to appear before a Supreme Court-appointed commission that is probing the memo issue on January 16. He has been directed to appear before it on January 24.