Un mémo anonyme demandant l'Aide des États-Unis? Et les militaires n'étaient pas dans le "secret"? Échanges "virils" entre le le gouvernement du Président Asif Ali Zardari et l'armée pakistanaise.
"Pakistan’s powerful army was on a collision course Friday with the beleaguered civilian government led by President Asif Ali Zardari, after they presented conflicting evidence to a Supreme Court inquiry into a scandal dubbed “Memogate.”
The army is said to be furious about an unsigned memo that surfaced last month, supposedly soliciting Washington’s help to rein in the military and prevent a possible coup in the aftermath of the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May. The memo was allegedly drafted by a Pakistani American businessman on the instructions of Pakistan’s ambassador to Washington, possibly with Zardari’s backing.
The government denies having anything to do with the memo, but the ambassador, Husain Haqqani, has already been dismissed over the affair and could face a treason charge. As the storm clouds darkened, Zardari left the country for Dubai for urgent medical tests last week and has yet to return. Officials said he is resting on doctor’s orders after a brief illness.
Any hopes that the two sides could have patched things up during Zardari’s absence were dashed after Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, the army chief, made an uncompromising and emotionally charged deposition to a Supreme Court inquiry into the affair.
“The Memo episode has an impact on national security,” he wrote. He added that it “unsuccessfully attempts to lower the morale of the Pakistan Army whose young officers and soldiers are laying down their lives for the security and defense of territorial integrity.”"
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/pakistans-memo-scandal-pits-military-against-zardari-government/2011/12/16/gIQAgDdFyO_story.html?hpid=z2
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