Sunday, March 11, 2012

BlackBerry -RIM firm refuses to offer data over Pakistan memo scandal

Pakistan Scandal Ambassador Husain Haqqani
Islamabad: The BlackBerry manufacturing company Research in Motion (RIM) has once again refused the Pakistan government's request to provide communication details that took between the memo case characters, Mansoor Ijaz [US businessman] and former Pakistan Ambassador Husain Haqqani, Geo News reported Tuesday [21 February].The reply has been received by the government of Pakistan while the commission has also been informed.The judicial commission tasked with probing the memo scandal had directed the attorney general to once again write to RIM for releasing BlackBerry data.

BlackBerry(RIM)-Pakistan scandal
The commission also directed the Foreign Ministry to present details regarding any existing agreement between Pakistan and Canada regarding exchange of dossier. According to a private TV channel, the company said in its response to a sealed letter from the attorney general of Pakistan that its privacy laws strictly prohibited disclosure of a customer’s data to any other party without his consent.The memo investigation commission had asked the government to send a formal request to the RIM through the Canadian High Commission in Islamabad for obtaining the data.