Petition Filed Over Restriction Of Zardari & Kayani’s Foreign Trip

Islamabad: A petition has been filed in the
Supreme Court against the President Asif Ali
Zardari and Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq
Pervaiz Kayani over going abroad from the
country without prior permission and
presenting themselves in the court.
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Applicant Shahid Orakzai has filed the agreed
application in constitutional petition number
92/2011. Doubts are presented by the officials
over the happening of the Abbotabad and
Osama bin Laden incident that points to the
alleged involvement of the President in the
matter.
Allegations have been leveled against Zardari
that he already knew about the CI operation
and he had not informed the armed officials
on the directive message by the former
American ambassador, Hussain Haqqani.
Zardari’s involvement in the high-level
violation incident is further marked by the
anxiety he had shown over the investigations
done with Haqqani. ‘He has asked for the
interrogations to be done in his presence’,
officials stated.
In the application it has been stated that the
interrogations took place in the presence of
the President in the President House while the
Haqqani was questioned about his alleged
involvement in the matter by the DG ISI Shuja
Pasha, President Zardari, former Prime
Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and COA
General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani were present on
the occasion.
The applicant said that the three men have
already left the country and after completing
their tenure Zardari and Kayani will also leave.
It has been appealed to the court that role of
Haqqani in the memo scandal is crystal clear
therefore the court should impose restriction
over the foreign trip of the President and the
COA should be bounded to ask for permission.