Back to news on Pak envoy to the US, Husain Haqqani.

The wife of enovy, involved in a controversy over a secret memo sent to the Obama administration, today defended her husband and said he was ready to face an inquiry into the matter. 

Farahnaz Ispahani, a close aide of President Asif Ali Zardari, said Haqqani was prepared to sue Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, who has claimed the memo was drafted and delivered on the envoy's instructions. She described Ijaz as "a citizen of another country" whose allegations "make me believe he is working against Pakistan's democracy".

Ispahani said she and her husband want "an investigtion" into the matter and were "ready for a forensic investigation". "Whatever guidance is given to us by our senior leadership (in the ruling Pakistan People's Party), we will take it but personally if the senior leadership allows us, we will go in for libel," Ispahani told reporters outside the Supreme Court.