Mansoor Ijaz

Mansoor Ijaz

Calmed down in the Supreme Court of Pakistan tensions in the worst crisis facing the country in the relations between the civilian government and the military since the coup in 1999 after lifting a travel ban imposed on the former ambassador in Washington has angered military leaders after the emergence of a suspicious note.

The Supreme Court had banned Ambassador Hussein Haqqani, from leaving the country in December, a check in the memo that requested U.S. help to rein in the military leaders of Pakistan after the U.S. operation that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden inside Pakistan in May last year.

And decided a panel of nine judges on Monday that the right to travel outside Haqqani, Pakistan, but by the news that the Supreme Court formed a committee to investigate the note with his plans in advance.

Haqqani told Reuters after the decision, "I am pleased that the Supreme Court restored my right to travel, which was canceled without charge to me."

He added, "I will join my family in the United States after consultations with the leaders of Pakistan People's Party."

And highlighted the scandal known as the "scandal of note" strained relations between the civilian governments of Pakistan and the military forces over the decades.

Haqqani and returned to Pakistan in November of last year amid the crisis broke out when he claimed the businessman Mansoor Ijaz in October, a senior Pakistani diplomat that the extradition request and the memorandum to the U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon). He resigned from the post of Ambassador Haqqani after his return to Pakistan.

Ijaz said later that the diplomat is Haqqani, who denies any connection with the note. There was no evidence that the army was plotting a coup and called the U.S. Defense Department memo at the time that they have lost credibility.

But in the months following the scandal that threatened to turn into a full-blown conflict between the civilian leadership and military unrest which Pakistan can not afford. It was due to make a Ejaz testified before the inquiry in January, but did not come to Pakistan because of what he said were security concerns.

Said Salman Akram Raja, a constitutional expert said Ijaz refused to give evidence in person and demand to raise the level of insurance has angered the court and reduced the credibility

Mansoor Ijaz