Islamabad: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday said a Pakistani parliamentarian was in touch with Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, who made public an alleged secret memo sent to the US military, and they were involved in a conspiracy against President Asif Ali Zardari.

"There is an honourable member in this honourable House whose name I do not want to take he is in touch with Mansoor (Ijaz) from United States," Gilani said while speaking in the Senate or upper house of parliament this evening.
"I don`t want to take his name. I have proofs. I know the person who is in touch and that is the conspiracy against the President," he said, without giving details. Ijaz created a storm in Pakistan`s political and diplomatic circles last month by releasing a secret memorandum that he claimed he had drafted and sent to former US military chief Admiral Mike Mullen on the instructions of former Ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani.
The alleged memo sought US help to help prevent a military coup in Pakistan after the American military raid that killed Osama bin Laden in the garrison town of Abbottabad on May 2. The memo further said the Pakistan government would carry out a wide-ranging revamp of the security establishment to flush out officials with links to militants.
Haqqani, who was forced to resign from his post, has denied he was involved in drafting or delivering the memo. Gilani has asked the Parliamentary Committee on National Security to probe the "Memogate" scandal while the Supreme Court has ordered a separate inquiry. President Asif Ali Zardari, who has been at the centre of the storm due to speculation that he was involved in the matter, abruptly left Pakistan on December 6 to seek treatment for a heart condition in Dubai.
In a related development, Ijaz told a TV news channel that information provided to him by unidentified intelligence sources had suggested that the Pakistan Army might have been plotting a coup after the raid against bin Laden.
Ijaz claimed the intelligence sources had told him Inter-Services Intelligence agency chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha "had been travelling throughout the Arab world and other countries after the Osama bin Laden raid" and that "in many places he had explained there was a lot of stress in the system because people could not understand who the blame should be pinned on for the fact that bin Laden was on" Pakistani soil.
He claimed that this "stress" suggested the possibility of a coup by the Army.
Ijaz also told The Independent newspaper of Britain that a US intelligence source had told him that "their information was that Pasha had travelled to a few of the Arab countries to talk about what would be necessary to do in the event they had to remove Zardari from power and so forth".
PTI