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 […]
Jan 2 2012 | Posted in
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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 […]
Dec 31 2011 | Posted in
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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 […]
Dec 31 2011 | Posted in
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PCNS summons Hussain Haqqani, Gen. Pasha The Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS), tasked by the government to probe the infamous memogate issue, Friday summoned former ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani, top spymaster Lt General Ahmed Shuja Pasha to explain their respective positions on the issue. The 15-member parliamentary body also decided ‘in […]
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 […]
Dec 30 2011 | Posted in
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Supreme Court constitutes three-member commission to probe into Memogate scandal The Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Friday declared the contentious memo scandal maintainable and constituted a three-member commission to probe into it. Chief Justice Balochistan High Court Qazi Faiz Esa will head the commission while Chief Justice Sindh High Court Musheer Alam, Chief Justice Islamabad […]
The decay in the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz As the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in the headship of Mian Nawaz Sharif started red herrings, defections have commenced in the party at the level of senior leadership. Demoting and ill-treatment of both veteran leaders and party workers is said to have the main reason behind the desertions. […]
Dec 30 2011 | Posted in
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Is General Kayani’s statement enough to dispose threats? A dwarf statement from Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, is not enough to decrease the mounting tensions in the country’s polity, as military has so power influence in politics. However, the army chief’s statement that military is not planning to come into the power […]
Maulana Fazlur Rehman pleads for lawful change Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F)’s Ameer, Maulana Fazlur Rehman has asked the opposition parties not to rely on judiciary or military for getting rid of the incumbent government rather adopt constitutional measures to bring a change. “Without any doubt, the government has several weaknesses but using judiciary and military as […]
Dec 24 2011 | Posted in
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Memogate Case; Chief Justice dispels fears of a military coup Islamabad, Friday, December 23, 2011: Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary today remarked on Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani’s yesterday’s speech and said that in presence of a vigilant and watchful judiciary in Pakistan, fears for a military coup were baseless. He said that […]
Dec 23 2011 | Posted in
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Listen… I am Prime Minister of Pakistan It seems that the country once again headed towards a stressful crisis. Pakistan’s most horrible covert was out in the open; the army and ISI (Inter Services Intelligence) have been out of control by the civilian government. Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani lost his temper while speaking […]
Dec 23 2011 | Posted in
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Imran advises PML-N to quit assemblies to get rid of Asif Ali Zardari Imran Khan, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman, advised the PML-N (Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz) to resign the legislatures to get rid of President Asif Zardari. Speaking at a press conference at the party’s Central Secretariat, in Islamabad, the cricket-turned politician alleged that the […]