Islamabad: Controversial Pakistani-American Mansoor Ijaz on Friday said he had been assured by the US of its support during his upcoming visit to Pakistan to testify before a judicial panel probing the memo scandal.
"I had a conference call with the US State Department a couple of days ago. The US government will provide the support that they always do for US citizens," Ijaz told Geo News channel in an interview in London.
Ijaz, who was issued a visa by the Pakistani mission in London on Thursday, declined to say when he would travel to Islamabad and repeated his claim that he was receiving threats from Pakistani officials everyday.
He did not offer any proof to back up his claims.
"They made their official position very clear and I made my reasons for going very clear. They understand it's a high-profile case and they understand I am a reasonably high-profile American citizen," he said.
"If, God forbid, anything goes wrong they (US administration) will certainly be there to help my family make sure that things got sorted out. I am absolutely confident that the American government will do the right thing if something went wrong," he said, without explaining what could go wrong.
Ijaz failed to make a scheduled appearance before a Supreme Court-appointed commission that is probing the memo scandal on Monday.
The panel then summoned him to appear before it on January 24. The controversial businessman created a storm in Pakistan's political circles last year when he made public an alleged memo that sought US help to prevent a feared coup in Pakistan.
He claimed then Pakistani envoy to the US, Husain Haqqani, has asked him to draft and deliver the memo to the former US military chief.
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