Three Pakistani officials prepared memo, reveals Ijaz

ISLAMABAD: The main character in the memogate scandal, Mansoor Ijaz has further disclosed that three high officials of Pakistan were involved in the preparation of memo and that he had informed General James Jones about Husain Haqqani while sending it.

In his reply submitted in the Supreme Court, Mansoor Ijaz claimed he had 19 minutes and 26 seconds conversation with General James Jones on telephone and that he had informed him about Husain Haqqani in the end.

The US businessman further revealed that alongwith the memo, he had also sent a covering letter to General Jones. He said, in the letter he had also mentioned about involvement of the personalities, served at military and government positions. Three officials jointly prepared the memo, he said and added that one of them said for delivering the memo to Mike Mullen.

Ijaz said he personally knew two out of these three officials.

Ijaz said he was also in contact with two US officials so that he could deliver the memo to Mike Mullen personally.

Mansoor Ijaz, in his statement submitted to SC, has blackened the names of these US officials so that these could not be read.

Mansoor Ijaz said he asked General James Jones to deliver the memo to Mike Mullen by May 10 at any cost so that Mullen could brief key Pakistani officials at White House on May 11, and the memo could become part of official document.