The Pakistan supreme court has set up a judicial commission to investigate a secret memo scandal that threatens the federal government.
The scandal centres on a memo allegedly sent in May to Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff at the time, asking for help in stopping a supposed army coup following the Navy Seals raid in May that killed Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda chief.
The scandal first erupted in October when Mansoor Ijaz, a US businessman of Pakistani origin, wrote a column in the Financial Times newspaper claiming that Husain Haqqani, the US ambassador in Washington, drafted the memo and asked him to send it.
Asma Jahangir, a lawyer for Haqqani speaks to Al Jazeera live from Lahore.