Despite assurance given to the commission probing the “memogate”, the authorities concerned did not write a letter on Monday to the Canada-based company Research in Motion (RIM) for confirmation about the authenticity of the electronic communication exchanged between Mansoor Ijaz and Hussain Haqqani, sources told Pakistan Today. Earlier in the day, the attorney general had assured the three-member commission that the government would comply with Supreme Court orders and contact the company for obtaining confirmation at the earliest in order to protect the forensic evidence in the memo scandal.
The sources said after the commission’s proceedings, Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir and Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq held a meeting to discuss the issue but could not take a decision in this regard. They said the government would take more time to reach a decision on how and when the company would be contacted. The report of RIM, which is the sole and exclusive custodian of such information, would be scrutinised and produced before the commission, which would help establish, if any, links between the two main characters of the “memogate”. On December 30, the Supreme Court had directed the AG to contact RIM through authorities concerned for confirmation about the alleged electronic communications exchanged between Mansoor Ijaz and Hussain Haqqani.
