Expressing displeasure over the non-appearance of Hussain Haqqani, the Supreme Court asked Asma Jahangir to file a request for obtaining security for her client. The court directed the counsel for Haqqani to guide the Interior Secretary K M Siddiq Akbar as to what kind of security was required by her client, former envoy to […]
Expressing displeasure over the absence of former ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani, the Supreme Court of Pakistan said that he should have kept his promise as he was not granted exemption from appearing before the bench. A nine-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary resumed hearing […]
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has made it clear that the Memo Commission didn’t declare former ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani a traitor. A nine-member bench of the apex court with Justice Shakirullah Jan resumed the hearing of the case, asking his counsel to file plea seeking exemption from attending hearings. The commission […]
Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States, Hussain Haqqani, resolutely defended civilian rule and efforts to improve relationships with America. In his article in The Washington Post, the former ambassador rejected claims that he authored the infamous memogate, saying it was illogical to accuse him of being a traitor. A couple of days ago, the […]
Jun 15 2012 | Posted in
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Former ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani, denied all allegations levelled against him by Mansoor Ijaz in the memo case despite confessing the telephonic conversation between the two. He submitted his detailed 25-page reply to the Judicial Commission, saying, “All the Blackberry messages and emails produced by Ijaz to prove his allegations are false and […]
US business tycoon, Mansoor Ijaz, the man who architected the memogate controversy, made a much-awaited testimony before the judicial commission constituted by the Supreme Court to probe the matter. His testimony will continue on Thursday at Pakistan’s High Commission in London. On the other, the Memo Commission is reviewing the applications filed by Husain Haqqani’s […]
Feb 23 2012 | Posted in
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As the central character of memogate saga, Manoor Ijaz, despite repeated security assurances clearly refused to come to Pakistan, the government Thursday strongly opposed the proposal of the judicial commission to visit abroad to record his statement. Attorney General Maulvi Anwar ul Haq said the judicial commission should not travel abroad to record the statement […]
Feb 10 2012 | Posted in
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Mansoor Ijaz rejects affidavit of General James Jones Mansoor Ijaz, the US-based business tycoon who created the controversy of memogate scandal, has rejected the affidavit of General James Jones, the former US National Security Advisor. Ijaz vehemently rebuffed the statement of James Jones saying that he did not have any contact with the latter prior […]
Dec 17 2011 | Posted in
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Senate to debate controversial memogate on December 2 The Senate is all set to discuss the issue of controversial memogate as Chairman Senate Farooq H. Naek Tuesday summoned the Upper House’s session, on December 2, on the requisition submitted by the joint opposition to discuss the matter. The 75th session of the Senate will continue […]
Nov 22 2011 | Posted in
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