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Pakistan’s “Memogate”: Was there ever going to be a coup?

For all the fevered discussion about Memogate, one of the most arresting claims to emerge seems to have evaded even the faintest scrutiny. In the very evidence Mansoor Ijaz marshaled before the Pakistani public, he says there was a second, rival plot, set in train during the very same days in early May. It, too, involves a senior Pakistani official reaching out to foreign allies in a similarly abortive bid to take on a powerful institution back home.

By Omar Waraich | The Foreign Desk - International dispatches from Independent correspondents - | Tuesday, 13 December 2011 at 7:35 pm