Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, has lamented that the Memo Commission had been transformed into an arena to “prosecute and persecute” him instead of its original purpose of finding facts about the memo sent by Mansoor Ijaz to US military commander Admiral Michael Mullen last year.
In a comprehensive application to the commission, submitted through his lawyers Syed Zahid Bukhari and Sajid Tanoli, the former envoy repeated his demand for ‘equal treatment’ with his accuser and responded to all the points raised during the Commission’s last hearing.
Haqqani said, “I am a born citizen of Pakistan. I have never sought or obtained, nor do I intend to seek or obtain, the citizenship of any country other than Pakistan, including the United States. I have never sought, nor do I intend to seek asylum in any country, including the United States.” The former ambassador was responding to the Commission’s order that he clarify reports in a section of the media.
“Although the honorable Commission was constituted to conduct an inquiry and it had been said at the outset that its proceedings would be inquisitorial in nature, it has been converted into a virtual prosecution against me without even the filing of a formal charge or registering a case,” Haqqani said in the application. “Questions pertaining to my citizenship based on nothing other than newspaper stories, most likely solicited and planted for this very purpose, is one example of the divergence of proceedings away from the original purpose of this inquiry,” he added.
Haqqani said that from 2002 until appointment as ambassador of Pakistan to the United States he worked as a Pakistani citizen living abroad and will be doing the same now, “like millions of other Pakistani citizens who live and work abroad.”
Emphasising his point that the Commission was focused on him instead of doing its job of inquiring about the memo, Haqqani said, “I submit this information as ordered by the Commission even though I see no relevance whatsoever between the Commission seeking this information and its task of probing the origins, authenticity and purpose of the disputed Memo.”
Are we supposed to believe this traitor? He has lied before when he promised to return to Pakistan on a four day notice and then refused to come back once allowed to go abroad. He has made every excuse in the book for not returning. Not one of his excuses is believable. Why would we think that he is telling the truth now? He would sell his own mother to save his skin.
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