Supreme Court regards Memogate Petitions admissible; forms a three member commission to probe the case

Supreme Court regards Memogate Petitions admissible; forms a four member commission to probe the case

Islamabad: (Friday, December 30, 2011) after lawyers from the two sides, the Supreme Court has announced that the petitions file in the memo case are maintainable. The court has ordered the formation of a four member probe commission.

As per the details, three chief justices of High Court and a sessions judge will be part of the investigative commission, the SC order said, adding that it must complete the task within four weeks.

A nine-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and comprising Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan, Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja, Justice Tariq Pervez, Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan, Justice
Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry and Justice Muhammad Athar Saeed is hearing the case.

During today’s proceedings, PML-N lawyer Rasheed A Rizvi gave his arguments and said the petition is not against any single person on which the Chief Justice remarked that the court is neither against any person nor giving verdict against him. He further said
the court can intervene if the state seizes fundamental rights.

Rizvi said the court did not include Rehman Malik’s statement related to memo case where he confirmed about the communication between Mansoor Ijaz and Husain Haqqani. The statement was not rebutted by any party, said the PML-N lawyer.

Justice Jawwad Khawaja remarked that there is no harm if the investigation is carried out in the memo case. It will unveil the truth in any case, he said.

Senator Ishaq Dar, member of Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS), presented his arguments in favour of acceptance of the petitions before the nine-member bench.

Initially, when the Supreme Court took up the case on request of Mr. Nawaz Sharif, the chief of PML-N, some of the ruling politicians had blamed that there were fears that the court may appear to be biased against them. However, after a through scrutiny, the
way in which the apex court has taken up with the case and has provided both the party a fair chance to express their stance, there is no room for any such blames any more.

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