The Supreme Court while reserving its judgment on the Memogate case on Friday admitted the existence of a memorandum and that the petitions filed by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif and others are admissible.
The court has released a short order and will release a detailed order later.
Earlier, while heading a nine-member bench, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said that the court has not attributed anything to former Ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani, adding that the court is not against anyone.
The CJ said that the court has the authority to intervene if the state has violated rights in the Memogate case. He said that the Parliamentary Committee on National Security cannot stop the court from investigating the Memogate scandal.
The CJ observed that anyone who files a petition in the court does not necessarily do that for political interests and that person might be an informant.
He made this statement in a reply to Haqqani’s Counsel Asma Jehangir’s earlier statement that the Memogate scandal was a ‘political issue’ and that anyone could try to mislead the court. She had questioned the maintainability of the petitions filed in the court.
Nawaz Sharif’s lawyer Rasheed A Rizvi has compiled all the evidences. Rizvi told the court that the procedures of law will be implemented in a better way in the Supreme Court rather than the parliamentary committee. He added that on one hand the government has termed the memorandum as a piece of paper, and on the other hand they have called for an inquiry.
SC admits existence of memo, says petitions admissible
