Gilani and Kayani meet to avoid a clash of institutions

Gilani and Kayani meet to avoid a clash of institutions

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani met behind closed doors at the PM House on Friday over replies filed to the Supreme Court in the memogate scandal.

The meeting, which lasted over three hours, was explained as taking serious note of the rumours going around of a clash between institutions. It added that the replies filed by General Kayani and Director General Inter Services Intelligence, Lt. General
Shuja Pasha, should not be considered as a clash between the government and the army.

The official statement further read that the two leaders discussed challenges faced by the country and national unity.

Thursday saw replies from the heads of the army and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), however, were safely tucked away after they were submitted to Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq.

The military’s position appears to have been formed by ISI Director General Shuja Pasha, who seems convinced of foul-play following a shadowymeeting in London with US businessman Mansoor Ijaz and that the memo at the center of the issue, was indeed real.

The federal government did submit a reply: That the SC should dismiss the petition because sufficient investigations by the executive itself are already under way.

Also submitted through the Attorney General (AG), the government’s reply questioned the very necessity of the SC hearings, arguing that the parliamentary committee on national security is already probing Memogate.

The government also restated its unwavering position that neither the president nor the prime minister nor any other government official has anything to do with the alleged memo.

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Posted by Ammar Ahmad on Dec 17 2011. Filed under Latest News, Pakistan. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry