Pak memo panel rejects Haqqani's plea seeking Pasha as witness

May 04, 2012 13:27

A Pakistani judicial panel probing a mysterious memo sent to the US has rejected Husain Haqqani's plea that ex-ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha appear as a witness, amid claims by the former envoy that the commission has been
"converted into a virtual prosecution" against him.

The Supreme Court-appointed commission, which has been investigating the memo that had sought US help to stave off a feared coup in Pakistan following al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's killing last year, also refused to accept Haqqani's written explanation regarding the use of secret diplomatic funds during a hearing yesterday.

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