Islamabad:
BlackBerry maker, Research in Motion (RIM), has said that it will not release data regarding a memo that said that President Asif Ali Zardari had feared a military coup last year, it was reported here.
Geo News reported that the BlackBerry maker has refused to release data related to the memo that led to the stepping down of the country's envoy to the US, Husain Haqqani and a festering row between the military and the political leadership.
The phone manufacturer, based in Canada, has said that their privacy laws prohibit disclosure of a customer's data to any other party without the consent of the parties concerned. Hence, Pakistan cannot have the information.
Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz had reportedly forwarded the memo to then US military chief General Mike Mullen in May last year, shortly after an American raid killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad.
The three-member commission probing the memo had called for records of BlackBerry communications between Mr Ijaz and Mr Haqqani amid allegations that the former Pakistani envoy to the US had played a role, a charge he has consistently denied.
RIM said that their response was to a sealed letter from the attorney general of Pakistan, the media report said.
The commission headed by Chief Justice of the Balochistan High Court Qazi Faiz Isa today resumed hearing of the case.
Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq said that the Pakistan High Commission in Britain had been instructed to issue a Pakistan visa to Mansoor Ijaz as soon as his application was received.