Washington: President Asif Ali Zardari was scared of a military intervention after the killing of al-Qaeda Chief Osama bin Laden in US raid in Pakistan and he was ready to create a “new security team” favorable to Americans and promised the US to hand over top al Qaeda and Taliban officials residing in Pakistan.
The promises were part of a secret memo to the then Chairman of the Joint US Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, according to The Foreign Policy’s blog Cable.
 The content and a copy of the said sacred memo was posted by The Foreign Policy’s blog Cable late last night.
 According to The Cable the memo offered to reshape Pakistan’s national security leadership, cleaning house of elements within the powerful military and intelligence agencies that have supported Islamic radicals and the Taliban, drastically altering Pakistani foreign policy — and requesting U.S. help to avoid a military coup.
 The secret memo from Zardari, was apparently handed over to Mullen by Mansoor Ijaz, a Pakistani-American businessman, in May this year in the aftermath of the May 2 killing of bin Laden in a safe house in Abbottabad.
 The information about this secret memo was first leaked by Ijaz himself in an op-ed in the Financial Times last month.
 According to this memo, Zardari, leading a civilian government wanted to create a new national security structure that would be favorable to the Americans.
 In the Memo President Zardari also promised the US to hand over top al Qaeda and Taliban officials residing in Pakistan , including Ayman Al Zawahiri, Mullah Omar, and Sirajuddin Haqqani, or give U.S. military forces a “green light” to conduct the necessary operations to capture or kill them on Pakistani soil, with the support of Islamabad. “This commitment has the backing of the top echelon on the civilian side of our house,” the memo states
 “Civilians cannot withstand much more of the hard pressure being delivered from the Army to succumb to wholesale changes,” reads the memo, sent to Mullen via an unidentified U.S. interlocutor by Ijaz. “If civilians are forced from power, Pakistan becomes a sanctuary for UBL’s [Osama bin Laden’s] legacy and potentially the platform for far more rapid spread of al Qaeda’s brand of fanaticism and terror. A unique window of opportunity exists for the civilians to gain the upper hand over army and intelligence directorates due to their complicity in the UBL matter.”
 The memo — delivered just 9 days after the killing of bin Laden — requests Mullen’s help “in conveying a strong, urgent and direct message to [Pakistani Army Chief of Staff] Gen [Ashfaq Parvez] Kayani that delivers Washington’s demand for him and [Inter-Services Intelligence chief] Gen [Ahmad Shuja] Pasha to end their brinkmanship aimed at bringing down the civilian apparatus.”
 “Should you be willing to do so, Washington’s political/military backing would result in a revamp of the civilian government that, while weak at the top echelon in terms of strategic direction and implementation (even though mandated by domestic political forces), in a wholesale manner replaces the national security adviser and other national security officials with trusted advisers that include ex-military and civilian leaders favorably viewed by Washington, each of whom have long and historical ties to the US military, political and intelligence communities,” the memo states.
 The memo offers a six-point plan for how Pakistan’s national security leadership would be altered in favor of U.S. interests. President Asif Ali Zardari would start a formal “independent” inquiry to investigate the harboring of bin Laden and take suggestions from Washington on who would conduct that inquiry. The memo promised this inquiry would identify and punish the Pakistani officials responsible for harboring bin Laden.
 The memo also promises a new Pakistani national security leadership that would bring transparency and “discipline” to Pakistan’s nuclear program, cut ties with Section S of the ISI, which is “charged with maintaining relations to the Taliban, Haqqani network” and other rogue elements, and work with the Indian government to punish the perpetrators of the 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai.
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