JHANG: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader and former prime minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday said that the party neither owned Husain Haqqani nor was the former ambassador to the US was a spokesman for the party.
Talking to the media at a press conference in Jhang, Gilani said that the PPP had already disowned ex-ambassador Haqqani. “We summoned him in the memogate case in consultation with the establishment. For transparent inquiry, the matter was referred to the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, headed by Raza Rabbani,” he said. Referring to the former ambassador’s controversial claims that the previous government wilfully facilitated the stationing of US intelligence agents in Pakistan, Gilani said that a court took up the matter and constituted a judicial commission on Abbotabad issue. “We know the courts are not in favour of the PPP, still we demand that the judicial commission’s report should be made public.”
The former premier said that the PPP had been accused of keeping him inside the PM’s House, but asked who let him leave the country. “We don’t need any certificate of patriotism from anyone. My forefathers fought for Pakistan,” he said, rejecting the claims made by the former US envoy that Pakistan’s civilian leaders had approved the US request to let its intelligence agents be stationed in the country.
