LAHORE - Former Supreme Court Bar president and senior lawyer Muhammad Akram Sheikh has expressed surprise at the three-hour meeting between COAS General Kayani and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday night, which, according to reports, was also attended by the Attorney General for Pakistan. In a press statement issued here on Saturday, he said through a communiqu released at the end of the meeting, the government sought to give an 'odd impression that the entire session was consumed by discussion regarding memogate and that there was no difference between the Army and the government on the subject. According to Mr Sheikh, just a day earlier, General Kayani had placed himself on record before the Supreme Court that as the existence of memo and the fact of it having been received by a US government official stood established, all that remained for the apex court was to find the people behind it, which, in General Kayanis view, was vital for the 'sovereignty of Pakistan and 'morale of the Army jawans. Having done so, the former SCBA chief said, General Kayani should avoid giving any impression that he was discussing the memo issue with the government, an issue that is now sub-judice and in which both the he and the government are not only respondents but have taken diametrically opposite positions. Mr Sheikh said in the above background, any direct communication between the Army and the government, both being respondents in the memogate petitions, may turn out to be highly embarrassing for the institution of the Army. He also termed mischievous and totally unjustified demands for General Pashas resignation and equating him with Husain Haqqani. He said unlike the case of former ambassador Husain Haqqani who is being reviled by everyone because of his role in the memo issue, neither Mansoor Ijaz nor any other person has even verbally levelled any allegation against General Pasha 'based on direct knowledge. According to Mr Sheikh, while the institution of the Army must always be subject to law, it was duty of everyone to ensure that the institution was not humiliated the way that it seems to have been subjected to by the people who conceived and wrote the memo for a foreign government, whoever these people may turn out to be.