The video for Italian house DJ Junior Jack’s 2004 single ‘Stupidisco’, features scantily clad female wrestlers fighting it out on stage.
Ijaz told The Associated Press (AP) on Wednesday that the music video was not a hoax, adding that he thought the video's emergence was part of an effort by Husain Haqqani to discredit him ahead of his testimony but conceded he had no evidence of this.
He appears in the video at the 2:47 mark and comments on the ongoing match. At one point he is heard saying, "Look at that, we've got some real tumbling going on here."
"I did this as a favor for my wife's best friend, whose planned actor for the part did not show up for the shoot that day," Ijaz said in a telephone interview with AP from an undisclosed location. He said the video shoot took place in Brussels and that there was no other person available with an American accent.
I was never present for any part of the video where those naked girls were shown. My wife was present at all times.
The video started making rounds on Twitter late Tuesday, with questions being raised regarding whether it was actually Ijaz who appeared in the video.
Outspoken Mansoor Ijaz has caused a stir in Pakistan after writing a column in a London based newspaper alleging that a Pakistani government official -- alleged to be the PPP's Husain Haqqani -- had asked him to deliver a controversial document to Admiral Mike Mullen, requesting him to deliver a warning to the Pakistani military against a takeover.
A key witness of the Memogate scandal, Ijaz is likely to appear before the judicial commission tasked with probing the controversy on January 24.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly mentioned American newspaper instead of London based. The error has been rectified.
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Nice Pakistani. We are proud of you Mr.Ijaz
It is utter ignorance that the media has made the whole Pakistani nation addicted to these political scandals. Please try living in the CAPITAL Islamabad ..in these winter months we have no GAS to warm our kids. Load shedding is for two to three hours a day & We are louder & Clearer toward changing the future of Pakistan. God bless all if we can manage correct larger infrastructure & Communication & Transportation to run safe. NO One wish to fly on PIA. Pakistan railway is diminishing , Politician can digest a whole Steel mill & Many banks but no one can do any thing as ALL ARE INVOLVED EQUALLY.& ALL ARE RESPONSIBLE.
@ali: He is the one who has been involved in the politics of Pakistan since Baby’s time and also caused her Govt. Kindly accept my apology on account of my ignorance about our country's politics but i am eager to know and shall feel exceedingly grateful if you will kindly tell me something about the baby, you have mentioned in your comment and what role he or she (can be both) played in the politics of our country
This person is talanted to do everything. He has moral character to testify before supreme court of Pak. It seems, character is not all that important. He is businessman also. This MV was also a business.
I was never present for any part of the video where those naked girls were shown. My wife was present at all times.....................this was wat mansoor ijaz said...but if u closely observer @01:58 min in video...mansoor ijaz is clearly shown in left of commentators panel while the girls were in their undergarments in the ring...it means he gave a false statement n now ive doubts abt him regarding memo scandal too...
.....Politics is just getting better & better.... ; ) way to go.!! Mansoor Ijaz!
mansoor is saying that hussain haqqani is behind this issue.. may be he is right and may b not.. it looks that both mansoor and hussain are not credible persons...
@Mahmood: Sorry to burst YOUR bubble but he's admitted to acting in this video. The version you looked up without him in it is the video for a remix of the song that leaves him out of the frame but still includes his voice. So please don't act so smug next time.
@ Mahmood Ijaz already admitted this!
The uncensored version of the video has a better ending - let's just say, nobody loses the match and everyone wins.
This act of Mansoor Ijaz looks to have more punishment under the Pakistani Constitution than article 6.
Nobody, no matter how hard they tried or how smart they are, could have seen this one coming. It's like one of those things people wouldn't really believe if they heard it and would require proof (like this) to remotely take it seriously.
Sorry to burst everyones bubble but anyone with basic video editing skills will tell you that this is a fake. Feel free to look up the original version.
@Mirza:
Character doesn’t matter for characterless ISI. Anything that gets the dirty job done.
Probably that was his this shady business how he hooked Pasha on the first place!
What if another movie of his comes out? And that one being porn? With the kind of character he is, nothing is unexpected.
Does character matter or not? What else does this guy have that has yet to come out?
Your move Veena.
@Anwar, Its not necessary to use orignal voice in music Videos. and here Mansoor Ejaz is not singing he is doing a role of commentator.
This Video Should be Presented at the MEMO Comission Now here is the Real Sadiq and Ameen Person For Our Judges. LOL
so this is secret weapon of ISI
And i got proof for it , that i tweeted it almost 22 hours ago first , can give the screen shots for that , i hope you will fix this , Thanks
I don't get what the big deal is all about. Remember that he is an American and in western culture doing a small acting role such as this is pretty normal.
Something about him just screams "attention seeker" doesn't it?
I wonder who searched up this video!... its not a new upload!.... ppl should start getting life!!
i don't know the reality of video but if so then it is his personal life.
its time to shine for Pakistan in each and every field of business! in music too :)
but just like by law Asif Zardari has presidential immunity...So by law it doesn't matter if Mr. Ijaz is involved in such activity..American generals accepted that they received a memo. Infact it raise the question why Hussain Haqqani was exchanging personal BBM messages with Ijaz???
He is a multi talanted person.
The assertion that Mansoor Ijaz wrote in an American paper is incorrect. He wrote in Financial Times op-ed which is edited in London.
Seems fake to me! It is not his voice.
Ameerika Teaches him well to get SPOILED :D
LOOOL This guy is multi-talented!!! A businessman, a peace broker, an alleged spy, a whistleblower and even a commentator in an Italian Dj's music video :p
This is just bizarre. Hard to believe a ''prominent businessman'' like him moonlights as an extra for music videos. Something is very wrong here.
How much this video is related to the MEMO?ET!
This made the headlines???
Mansoor Ijaz for president of Pakistan.
I love this guy.
I just had to laugh. An internet banality delivered in the perfect journalistic fashion by ET:
Well, the guy wanted to appear in a music video and have some fun while he was it .. what a character!
The 'real tumbling' has yet to happen :D
Lets make this music video as popular as "Memo Gate" scandal. :D
Icing on the cake ...