In contact with agencies of 24 countries, claims Mansoor Ijaz

Refuses to name those countries when questioned.

Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, the key respondent in the Memogate scandal claimed that he is in contact with agencies of 24 different countries, Express News reported on Thursday . 

When asked to name the countries of whose agencies Ijaz had contacts with, he refused to answer, terming it an irrelevant question.

During cross-examination by Husain Haqqani’s counsel Zahid Bokhari, Ijaz said that even though he had written an article alleging Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan of stealing nuclear secrets, he was not inherently against Pakistan's nuclear program.

Justice Qazi Faez Isa, head of the judicial commission investigating the matter, said that the telephone records submitted to the commission confirmed contacts between Ijaz and Haqqani.

Mansoor Ijaz's family receiving death threats

It was reported earlier that Ijaz had received messages from unknown numbers with death threats for his daughter.

US police took his cell phone in order to trace the numbers from which the threats were sent, and launched an investigation into the matter.

Haqqani's legal team in a press release though dismissed the threats as 'stories'.