Akram Sheikh addresses a news conference outside the Supreme Court in Islamabad.—AP

ISLAMABAD: Mansoor Ijaz has once again refused to come to Pakistan and record his statement before a judicial commission and a parliamentary committee investigating the memo scandal, DawnNews reported.

Akram Sheikh, the counsel for the American businessman, said that Ijaz in his e-mail again refused to come to Pakistan.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik had assured the commission of providing high-level security to Ijaz after he was summoned here today by the commission to explain his position regarding his "controversial" statements on the scandal published in newspapers.

The commission had asked Sheikh to consult Ijaz after the fresh assurance given by Malik.

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