Haqqani seeks adjournment on ‘medical grounds’

Seeking ‘similar facilities as extended to Mansoor Ijaz’ to record his statement before the memo commission via video link from London, former ambassador to United States Husain Haqqani on Wednesday asked the commission to adjourn the proceedings until his application is decided by the Supreme Court and “till such time as and when he gets clearance from his doctors for performing as stressful a task as recording of statement”.
According to sources, Haqqani submitted an application before the commission a day before its meeting here at the Islamabad High Court through his counsel Zahid Bukhari, stating that he had been a patient at the Advanced Cardiology Center for the past three years and was undergoing cardiac treatment. The commission is meeting here today (Thursday). Haqqani said he is scheduled for a MRI/CT at the National Institute of Health of the United States on April 4. He also submitted the certificate from Practice Administrator, Advanced Cardiology Center of USA in support of his case.
Haqqani submitted before the commission that he had submitted a petition before the Supreme Court of Pakistan to allow him ‘to record his statement before memo commission in the same manner with similar facilities as extended to Mr Mansoor Ijaz’.
He said on March 29, 2012 the Supreme Court adjourned the matter without deciding his application for recording of his statement via video link, adding the proceedings be adjourned till the application is decided by the SC and till such time he gets clearance from his doctors for performing as stressful a task as recording of statement.
On the last hearing, the memo commission had directed Haqqani to appear before it on the next date as he had declined to appear in Islamabad due to security reasons.