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Summary Mansoor Ijaz has provided BlackBerry phone bill as proof of his conversation with Husain Haqqani.
Mansoor Ijaz, the main character of memogate saga, on Friday continued recording his testimony for the third consecutive day before memo commission through video link.Mansoor Ijaz along with his wife arrived at the Pakistan High Commission in London on the third day of recording his testimony with a judicial commission probing the Memogate scandal.Before entering the High Commission, Ijaz said that his testimony might conclude today. Ijaz’s wife was also granted the permission to attend the session.Mansoor Ijaz had handed over 4 pages of bill of his BlackBerry phone to the commission of 23 May 2011 as proof of contact between him and Husain Haqqani.Memo Commission ordered Mansoor Ijaz to provide authenticated copy of phone bill. Haqqanis lawyer Zahid Bukhari said the copies are illegal as they do not carry name and number.The commission ordered Mansoor to get a certified copy of bill from the telecom company and send it to the commission office in Islamabad.Mansoor said the Husain Haqqani has been using two SIMs, one for official and other for private use.The memo commission resumed its hearing today at 2:00pm in which Mansoor Ijaz recorded his testimony.The Chief Justice of the Balochistan High Court, Justice Faiz Essa is heading the Memo Commission while Chief Justice Sindh High Court Mushir Alam and Chief Justice of Islamabad High Court, Hameed-ur-Rehman are the other two members of the commission.Mansoor Ijaz statement has been recorded by commission from London trough video-link. Although he had concluded his testimony during yesterday’s hearing but he requested the commission that he wanted to bring into light some facts of October and November last year about memo. He also informed the commission that he wanted to give details of his correspondence with Blackberry Company.The judicial commission also ordered the commission’s secretary to protect all the records and evidence provided by Ijaz so that it could be handed over to the commission in Pakistan on his return.
