Islamabad: Former ISI chief Let Gen Rtd Ahmed Shuja Pasha appeared before the memo commission and recorded his statement on Thursday.
Pasha confirmed his meeting with Mansoor Ijaz and told the commission that he had met the American businessman in a London hotel on Oct 22 2011 to inquire about the creator of the memo.
He said that he had managed the meeting with Ijaz through a source in the ISI. The former spy chief told that ijaz had show him 35 messages of Hussain Haqqani.
Pasha said that he returned to Pakistan the other day and brief the army chief about his meeting. Memo commission chairman Justice Qazi Faez Isa asked whether he also briefed political leadership after the meeting with Ijaz.
Pasha told that President Asif Ali Zardari had said that Hussain Haqqani was a right man during a meeting attended by army chief, prime minister, president and him.
The ex ISI chief said that he had been striving for the defence of the motherland during his service. He said that he was informed about Mansoor Ijaz’s article in Financial Times by the media wing of the spy service. He said that the first part of the article of Mansoor Ijaz was against the security of Pakistan.
Pasha said that he had not met Hussain Haqqani in connection with memo probe.
 Gen Pasha was also cross examined by the lawyer representing Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif.
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