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Summary Memo Commission has issued notice to President Asif Ali Zardari.
The President has been asked to clarify his position regarding the alleged memo.Previously, the President had not submitted a reply to the Supreme Court during the preliminary hearing of the memo case despite the fact COAS Gen Kayani and ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha submitted their replies. A reply on behalf of the federal government was however filed.The commission formed to investigate memo scandal has already sent notices to former US National Security Advisor James Jones, Director-General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Ahmed Shuja Pasha and others included in the probe. The commission has also issued notices to Army Chief Gen Kayani and PML-N head Nawaz Sharif.The first meeting of the commission that decided to issue notices was held at the Islamabad High Court building.The commission is headed by Chief Justice of the Balochistan High Court Qazi Faez Issa and includes the Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Iqbal Hameed and Sindh High Court Chief Justice Musheer Alam as its members.Neither Pakistan’s former ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani, nor the ISI chief appeared before the commission on the first meeting.
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