Investigation launched into memo scandal

Islamabad: A judicial commission yesterday started its investigation into a memo scandal involving allegations US assistance was sought in May last year to avert a feared coup in Pakistan.

The three-judge commission set up last week by the Supreme Court held its first meeting and will hold another next Monday.

It decided that the records of the BlackBerry Messenger conversation between former Ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani and Mansour Ejaz, a US businessman of Pakistani origin, must be obtained.

The commission asked attorney-general Maulvi Anwar-ul-Haq to contact the Canadian company Research In Motion and BlackBerry representatives in Pakistan so that forensic evidence of the conversation can be obtained.