Did Gilani do a Zardari?

January 13, 2012 18:04

While no other news site has confirmed this, the reason Gilani's alleged call to the UK embassy boggles the mind is because the latest crisis in Pakistan stems from a similar, if we may call it so, complaint -- the memogate controversy.

In October 2011 an anonymous memo was unearthed in Washington that sought US help to avert a possible military coup in Pakistan following the killing by US forces of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in May.

Pakistan's ambassador to the US at the time, Husain Haqqani, was alleged to have drafted the memo at the behest of President Zardari, who is alleged to have offered to replace his country's military leadership and sever all ties with militant groups in exchange for US help against the army.

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