In contradiction to the government’s stance that only the executive has the constitutional authority to appoint a commission to investigate the memogate issue, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader and former Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president Aitzaz Ahsen said on Friday the practice and precedents of constituting enquiry commissions, like the commission formed by the apex court on Friday, by the Supreme Court without issuing notices to the federation was on file. Ahsen told reporters at the SC premises that the government was inordinately delaying every matter. “Had the government started investigation of the memogate issue, the Supreme Court would not have intervened in the matter,” he said.