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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has tasked the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to bring back the former ambassador, Husain Haqqani, who is accused in the Memogate scandal.
Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nasir headed an Apex court bench and it heard the Memogate scandal on Thursday.
Justice Nisar remarked during the hearing, that NAB has agreements with United Nations Security Council (UNSC) pertaining to the return of suspects.
Top judge added that according to amicus curiae (friend of the court) Ahmer Bilal Soofi, NAB can bring Haqqani back to Pakistan.
CJP directs Ahmer Bilal Soofi to assist court in bringing back Husain Haqqani
The bench observed that there are difficulties owing to a lack of repatriation agreements between Pakistan and other countries.
The top court recommended that laws be drafted for bringing back suspects to the country and directed the Parliament to make legislation on repatriation agreements with other countries within a month.
The Memogate scandal erupted in 2011 when Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz claimed to have received an ‘anti-army’ memo from Haqqani, then the Pakistani envoy in Washington DC, for US joint chiefs chairman Admiral Mike Mullen.
The memo sent by Haqqani in 2011 allegedly mentioned a possible army coup in Pakistan following the US raid in Abbottabad to kill Osama bin Laden.
It sought assistance from the US for the then-Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) government for ‘reigning in the military and intelligence agencies’.
The commission said the purpose of the memo was to convince American officials that Pakistan’s civilian government was ‘pro-US’.
The scandal, taken to the Supreme Court by then opposition leader Nawaz Sharif and several others, had led to Haqqani’s resignation and subsequent exit from the country as the hearing was under way.
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