Last year’s cricket World Cup semi-final match between Indian and Pakistan is the talk of town these days after a UK newspaper claimed that the highly-anticipated match between the two countries was fixed. The newspaper further stated that a Bollywood actress, Nupur Mehta, was involved in this match-fixing ring as well. Therefore, the wannabe model […]
Mar 17 2012 | Posted in
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(Reuters) – Three former executives of disgraced medical equipment and camera maker Olympus Corp were arrested on Thursday over their role in a $1.7 billion accounting fraud, one of Japan’s biggest corporate scandals. The three had been identified by an investigative panel, commissioned by the company, as the main culprits in the fraud, seeking to […]
Feb 16 2012 | Posted in
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Mansoor Ijaz worried over Parliamentary Committee Summons Islamabad: (Friday, January 20, 2012) Mansoor Ijaz, the key witness and a central character to the memo case, has expressed reservations over the summons issued by Parliamentary Committee investigating into the scandal, to him. Expressing concerns over the issue, Akram Shaikh, Ijaz’s lawyer has taken up the issue […]
Jan 20 2012 | Posted in
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Things keep getting worse for Hussain Haqqani. The former Ambassador has been summoned by the judicial commission set up for inquiry of the May 2 incident in which Osama Bin Laden was supposedly killed in a raid by USA special forces inside Pakistan. The raid near the Garrison city of Abottabad was a clear […]
MI: Hi buddy, I understand you/ your foreign office hacks are commissioning hatchet pieces against me. Unfortunate…. very unfortunate HH: I will enquire and stop them. There s no need for any of this. HH: You haven t helped by engaging so much w/ Pak media. HH: What happened to the silent soldier ? MI: I issued a […]
Nov 24 2011 | Posted in
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HH: And now they hate me more when folks back home who hate me tell them you and I might have been together on s thing (whether we were or not is irrelevant to them) HH: Grossman is good but he doesn t like anyone playing a larger than life role. Old school HH: That s why I […]
Nov 24 2011 | Posted in
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HH: And no one else might tell you this, you re becoming irritable and losing your sense of humor as you grow old HH: Let this one go. There is much to do. MUCH. And then, there s the beach where I ve been waiting to be invited, the slum boy visiting the millionaire MI: I m not a […]
Nov 24 2011 | Posted in
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05/12/2011 01:47 MI: I just received an email from my link to MM independently confirming what you told me by phone. He says MM was appreciative of our intervention and utilized the data to advise and consent 05/12/2011 02:47 HH: Thanx. On way to Isloo. Will touch base on return 05/12/2011 02:54 MI: Good luck. […]
Nov 24 2011 | Posted in
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05/09/2011 19:02 MI: By the way, the interesting thing is that they consider AZ s approval of the message worth more than anyone else in country right now. How do you like that? 05/09/2011 20:43 MI: I have additional information you need to hear. Ping when I can call you please 05/09/2011 21:10 MI: Would […]
Nov 24 2011 | Posted in
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Below are transcripts of Hussain Haqqani and Mansoor Ijaz’s BBM conversations as provided by the latter. 05/09/2011 12:31 HH: Are you in London? I am here just for 36 hours. Can we meet for after dinner coffee or s thing? 05/09/2011 12:32 MI: I m in Monaco but it s no problem for me to fly up. […]
Mr Haqqani thanks another admirer who wrote an email to an American journalist who had questioned the memo`s authenticity. “Thank you. You raised some good points,” he wrote. “Already contradicted. IT never contacted me or any one I know. Raises Qs abt their credibility,” he wrote about the BBM messages Mr Ijaz had released. […]
Nov 22 2011 | Posted in
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The memo-gate scandal is becoming increasingly fiery and so are the two figures at the centre of storm, Mansoor Ijaz and Hussain Haqqani. Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States and his accuser in chief have been all over the internet giving their version of the story to whomever would listen. His accuser, Mansoor Ijaz, […]
Nov 22 2011 | Posted in
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