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.

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.