Memogate: Mansoor Ijaz arrives at Pakistan High Commission in London; Haqqani Network's Lawyer whines on visa non-issue

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Mansoor Ijaz

ISLAMABAD: Mansoor Ijaz has arrived at the Pakistan High Commission in London to record his statement for the Memogate case, a private news channel reported. Two big screens have been installed in the Islamabad High Court to record Ijaz’s statements from the Pakistan High Commission in London via video link. A three-member commission headed by Justice Qazi Faiz Isa is recording Ijaz’s testimony in Islamabad via video link. Ijaz’s lawyer, Akram Sheikh and former ambassador to United States Hussain Haqqani’s lawyer, Zahid Bukhari, has reached the Islamabad High Court.

On the other hand, despite getting his visa almost 24 hours ago, Haqqani's lawyer Bukhari still criticized the "late" arrival of his visa, saying that in today’s hearing of the Memogate case, he will ask the judicial commission to "facilitate" him as per his “legal right” (of being too lazy to avail the 24 hours to reach London via a direct flight). Speaking to the media outside the Islamabad High Court, Bukhari said that the witness and the counsel should be face to face during a court’s proceedings because there are some “professional techniques” that needed to be followed. “Your body language, your expressions and the way you put forth your arguments different when you are not in front of your client,” said Haqqai’s lawyer. Bukhari said that the commission has been facilitating Ijaz throughout the proceedings of the case. “I also request the court to provide me with appropriate facilities.”

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