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Amidst security concerns, Pakistani-origin US business tycoon, Mansoor Ijaz, refused to come to Pakistan. His counsel, Akram Shiekh claimed that he (Mansoor) will not appear before the judicial commission to record his statement in the controversial memogate scandal. Mansoor Ijaz, the key player of the memogate scandal, has expressed his reservations with the security arrangements […]
Farahnaz Ispahani, the media adviser to President Asif Ali Zardari and wife of former ambassador to United States, Hussain Haqqani, claimed that she ran away from Pakistan to save her life, saying she feared of being kidnapped by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). A report published in Sunday Times cited Farahnaz Ispahani as saying that she […]
Mansoor Ijaz accuses government of orchestrating cover-up to keep him away from judicial Commission Pakistani American businessman Mansoor Ijaz has accused the government of preventing him from testifying over the Memogate scandal is Islamabad next week. According to Mansoor, the Interior Minister Rehman Malik is currently planning a “massive cover-up” to keep him from appearing […]
Repeating his claims of receiving threats from Pakistani officials, Pakistani-origin US business tycoon, Mansoor Ijaz, has said he had not afraid of anyone and nothing can stop me from visiting Pakistan. While speaking to an Indian TV channel, Ijaz reinterred that nothing can stop him from coming to Pakistan, adding he will bring his BlackBerry […]
Amid a tense standoff between Pakistan’s civilian-military leadership, Attorney General Maulvi Anwar ul Haq told the Supreme Court on Friday that the government had no intentions of sacking Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General Ahmed Shuja Pasha for their unconstitutional and illegal replies in the memogate case. […]
The Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) summoned Pakistani-origin US business tycoon, Mansoor Ijaz, on January 26 to appear before the body in the controversial memogate scandal. Mansoor Ijaz was the main character who buzzed the entire episode of memogate scam. The panel directed Mansoor Ijaz, Husain Haqqani and DG, ISI Lt Gen. Ahmed Shuja […]
Time to devise new terms of engagement with United States To revise ties with the United States, the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) proposed a set of recommendations to parliament. As many as 35 recommendations have been finalized after numerous sittings by the parliamentary body. The body was asked to prepare a set of […]
Haqqani asserts to be guiltless but refuses cooperation The former ambassador of Pakistan to US, Hussain Haqqani asserts to be innocent but is not cooperating with the judiciary on Memogate scandal. After being repeatedly told by the three-member commission that delay in cooperation would cause an unfavourable implication, Haqqani has turned down judiciary’s request to […]
Just a few months ago, Husain Haqqani, the former Pakistani ambassador to the United States, brimmed with charm and confidence as he hosted lavish dinner parties for diplomats, generals, journalists and White House aides in Washington. Now Mr. Haqqani is confined to the regal hilltop residence of Pakistan’s prime minister, tangled in a legal battle […]
Supreme Court’s verdict on the inglorious memogate case In the abrupt reactions to the Supreme Court’s short order on the maintainability of the infamous memogate issue, it looks that the verdict could be come out to be one of the contentious in the country’s history. The decision by the apex court comes at a time […]
Supreme Court and memogate scandal The recent verdict of the Supreme Court, which declared the inglorious memogate case maintainable and formed a three-member commission to investigate the matter, raised many eyebrows. A nine-member bench of the apex court with Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in the chair said that the court will probe the controversial […]
People start speaking about Supreme Court’s biasness in memogate case As the time is going on, people started losing hopes about free and fair judiciary to which they struggled in the lawyers’ movement. Media, which played vital role in restoration of judiciary, started revealing other side of the picture. A recent report on a private […]
