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President
Zardari behind secret memo to US: Ijaz
- Memo Commission to reconvene today, resume recording
statement from Mansoor Ijaz
 ISLAMABAD:
The key witness in Pakistan's Memogate scandal, Mansoor
Ijaz Wednesday said he delivered a secret memo seeking
American help to avert a feared coup after Islamabad's
Ambassador to the US told him it was from the president.
Testifying via live video link from London before a
judicial commission in Islamabad probing the scandal
threatening President Asif Ali Zardari, American businessman
Mansoor Ijaz said he delivered the request to a US general.
The controversial unsigned memo was allegedly an attempt
by Zardari, through his close aide and former envoy
Hussain Haqqani, to enlist help from the US military
to head off a feared coup in Pakistan last year following
the killing of Osama bin Laden by US Navy SEALs.
"I asked (Haqqani) on whose authority he was doing
this?" Ijaz said.
"He (Haqqani) said this is coming from the President
of Pakistan who wanted to put together a new national
security team similar to national security team in USA",
Ijaz said.
Indian
parliament for terror-free ties with Pakistan: Meira
Kumar
 ISLAMABAD:
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Wednesday told Pakistan
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani there was consensus
in the Indian parliament on forging a relationship of
trust and cooperation with Pakistan "in an atmosphere
free of terror and violence".
Kumar, the first Lok Sabha Speaker to visit Pakistan,
made the remarks at a reception hosted by Gilani for
a visiting Indian parliamentary delegation led by her.
India, she said, wished to see a "stable, peaceful
and prosperous Pakistan".
"There was consensus in the Indian parliament on
building a relationship of trust and mutually beneficial
cooperation between India and Pakistan in an atmosphere
free of terror and violence," Kumar was quoted
as saying in a statement issued by her office.
"Such a relationship would be to the benefit of
people of both countries and contribute to prosperity
in the region," she said.
Kumar said the people of India desire a strong friendship
with their Pakistani counterparts.
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