Mansoor Ijaz on Saturday moved an application in the Supreme Court, saying he could not come to Pakistain over security concerns and that the court direct the judicial commission probing the memo scandal to record his statement outside Pakistain.Ijaz's lawyer Akram Sheikh filed the application under Order XXXIII Rule 6 of the Supreme Court rules 1980, and Article 187 of the constitution for recording the applicant's testimony outside Pakistain.
The applicant contended that according to the Supreme Court order, the commission was also mandated to collect evidence within and outside Pakistain "according to prevailing laws on the subject".
The applicant also reiterated that he did not want that his name be put on Exit Control List (ECL) if he enters Pakistain.
"The applicant does not want to be the suspected root cause of any institutional conflict between the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS), the commission, the judiciary, the government and the armed forces on the issue of his security or otherwise," Mansoor Ijaz's application read.
The applicant said that Research In Motion had shown reluctance in providing data to the commission about conversations between him and former ambassador Husain Haqqani. The applicant said he had executed a waiver to the company, enabling it to release his records "but Husain Haqqani has categorically refused to execute any waiver/consent".
Mansoor Ijaz also said that he was unwilling to violate the chain of custody that requires him to deliver and explain in person the content of all the evidence available directly to the chief justice.