MEMO GATE CASE PAKISTAN

BY

Syed Aimen Masood

 The US-Pakistan relationship was seemingly at an

all-time low before the assault on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad on May 2, 2011. Civilians and the media blamed the Pakistani armed forces for being unable to locate bin Laden's whereabouts and further criticized them for letting the United States conduct a unilateral operation on Pakistani soil, thereby prompting a furor over violation of Pakistani sovereignty by the United States

Contd..
Zardaris Awareness

A meeting of the president, prime minister

and the chief of army staff was called.

Drafting the memo

Leaked Message. Exchange of phones Messenger conversation.

Contents of the Memo

President of Pakistan will order an independent inquiry into the allegations that Pakistan

harbored and offered assistance to UBL and other senior Qaeda operative. The inquiry will be accountable and independent, and result in findings of tangible value to the US government and the American people that identify with exacting detail those elements responsible for harboring and aiding UBL inside and close to the inner ring of influence in Pakistan s Government.

 The new national security team will

implement a policy of either handing over those left in the leadership of Al Qaeda or other affiliated terrorist groups who are still on Pakistani soil, including Aimen Al Zawahiri, Mullah Omar and Sirajuddin Haqqani, or giving US military forces a green light to conduct the necessary operations to capture or kill them on Pakistani soil.

 One of the great fears of the military-

intelligence establishment is that with your stealth capabilities to enter and exit Pakistani airspace at will, Pakistan's nuclear assets are now legitimate targets.

Ijaz Claim In The Financial Times.

On October 10, 2011, Ijaz wrote a column in

the Financial Times revealing and confirming that he had helped deliver to Admiral Mullen a memorandum drafted by a Pakistani official stationed in the United States at the behest of President Zardari.[9] The op-ed did not explicitly name Haqqani as being the author of the memo

Speculation about Haqqanis involvement

Pakistan Ambassador had to resign over the

affairs concerning the alleged memo. He had initially denied the existence of the memo, and then authorship.

 Rally at Minar-e-Pakistan.

Imran Khan acknowledged Haqqani's

involvement with the Mullen memo.

Official responces
Government of Pakistan.
Several senior Pakistani government officials

denied that the memo was written at the behest of the civilian leadership, either the Pakistani president or the prime minister. President Asif Ali Zardari termed the allegations as "a conspiracy against the Zardari government", further stating that he did not need intermediaries to convey messages since he had "direct access" to the president of the United States.

Opposition in Pakistan Pakistani politicians have turned the scandal into a major political issue, accusing Ambassador Haqqani, President Zadari, and others in Pakistani government of compromising Pakistan's sovereignty, overstepping their powers by commanding the military to stand down, and conspiring against the Armed Forces of Pakistan

 Pakistani politicians have turned the scandal

into a major political issue, accusing Ambassador Haqqani, President Zadari, and others in Pakistani government of compromising Pakistan's sovereignty, overstepping their powers by commanding the military to stand down, and conspiring against the Armed Forces of Pakistan.