Memogate scandal: Tariq Khosa refuses to head the commission

With the fears of clash between the judiciary and executive in full swings, former Director General of the Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) Tariq Khosa on Saturday, December 3, refused to run the one-man inquiry commission on memo scandal.

This comes after the Supreme Court had set up the commission on Thursday, and asked Tariq to head, as the chief of his faction of Pakistan Muslim League, Nawaz Sharif, had forcibly argued in the court to constitute an independent commission to investigate
the whole matter.

But soon after the decision, an angry press conference – hurriedly called by the Pakistan People’s Party, which leads the federal government too, raised serious questions about the neutrality of Khosa, and the logic of commission especially after when the
government had already setup a commission of its own in probing the memo scandal.

The People’s Party’s Information Secretary, Qamar Zaman Qaira, Information Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan, PPP chief whip in the National Assembly and Religious Affairs Minister Khurshid Shah, and adviser to the prime minister, Farooq Awan, a younger brother
of Senator Babar Awan, were also present at the press conference

Tariq Khosa remained controversial figure largely because he is the brother of one of the Supreme Court judges, Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, and Punjab Chief Secretary Nasir Khosa. All the same, Justice Asif Saeed Khosa is the son-in-law of Justice (reitired)
Nasim Hasan Shah, who had handed down judgement of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s execution in 1977.

It was in this regard that Babar Awan had said that the judicial history of the country was a witnessed that the PPP never got any justice; and the rulers of Punjab had always got a relief from the courts.

“The judicial history of the country is witness to the fact that PPP was never given justice, but at the same it has also become a known reality now that rulers of the Punjab have always got relief from the courts,” said Mr Awan.

With the decision of Khosa not to head the one-man commission, the court is likely to appoint a new head when the next hearing takes place in about two weeks.

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