With the Memo Commission report accusing former ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani of being its author, the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed Haqqani to appear before the court on the next date of hearing and respond to the findings recorded by the commission.
As the nine-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry resumed hearing of the petition regarding the memo allegedly written to US Admiral Mike Mullen by Husain Haqqani, the court shared the findings of the Memo Commission.
The court in its order stated that in view of the commission’s findings, prima facie it seemed that Haqqani had to answer about the findings recorded by the commission. The court also issued notices to all respondents for appearing on the next date of hearing and directed the authorities to make the Memo Commission’s report public. The findings of the report submitted by the Memo Commission stated that it had been incontrovertibly established that the memorandum was authentic and Haqqani was its originator and architect. The report also authenticated that Haqqani sought American help; he wanted to create a niche for himself; making himself forever indispensable to the Americans.
He lost sight of the fact that he was a Pakistani citizen and Pakistan’s ambassador to the US, and therefore his loyalty could only be to Pakistan, the report said. The report added that Haqqani offered his services as part of a proposed “national security team” to a foreign government voicing “great fears” that “Pakistan’s nuclear assets were now legitimate targets” and seeking to bring “Pakistan’s nuclear assets under a more verifiable, transparent regime”. The report added that the memo said the ISI maintained “relations with the Taliban” and Haqqani offering to “eliminate Section S of the ISI and to help ‘pigeonhole the forces lined up against your interests” were acts of disloyalty to Pakistan that contravened the constitution. The report said the purpose of the memorandum was to show that the civilian government was friends with the US, but needed to be strengthened to prevail upon the army and intelligence agencies and to be able to do so, American help was required to set up a civilian national security team, headed by Haqqani. The report said the memo commission was constituted in pursuance of a judicial order passed by the court; its final conclusion and findings had also been read over by the attorney general, therefore, formally it was directed to make the report public.
The report added that there could be no two views that terrorism must be contested, terrorists fought, nuclear proliferation opposed, civilians (and not the military) determine foreign policy and the ship of state guided by civilian hands at the helm. However, what was not acceptable was that Pakistan’s ambassador beseeched a foreign government with impunity to meddle in and run our affairs.
“We may observe that Haqqani has chosen not to live in Pakistan, has been working in USA, where he appeared to have made his life, held no property or asset in Pakistan, held no money (save a paltry amount) in a Pakistani bank, but despite having no obvious ties to Pakistan was appointed to the extremely sensitive position of Pakistan’s ambassador to the US, and in addition to being paid a salary and accompanying emoluments was handed a largesse of over an amount of two million dollars a year”.
Meanwhile, Husain Haqqani called the report “political and one-sided” and said his lawyers would address the legal flaws of the process relating to the creation and proceedings of the commission before the Supreme Court.
“The commission’s report has been released to distract attention from other more embarrassing developments,” he said, alluding to the allegations relating to the chief justice’s son Arsalan Chaudhry. Haqqani said he had nothing to do with the memo and the commission might have come to a different conclusion if it had heard him out, which it did not. “The entire proceeding reflected the political machination of ideological elements including the judiciary and had little to do with fact finding,” he added.
“The Commission has based its findings on the claims of one man, a foreigner, and dubious records presented by him, which were reinforced by an equally dubious exercise termed as forensics. Just as a reliable post-mortem examination of a dead body cannot be carried out at the home of a doctor of someone’s choice, it was absurd to call showing the accuser’s electronic devices to an expert of his choice at the Pakistan High Commission in London a forensic examination.”
He said the memo issue had been based on newspaper clippings and the SC had created the commission amid an orchestrated media campaign against him.
Haqqani said the SC “cannot act as a trial court and must not abuse its authority as the court of final appeal to divert attention from the embarrassment of its politicised leadership”.
Haqqani said while he continued to respect the judiciary, he refused to let his patriotism judged by those who had endorsed martial law regimes and had even given the right to military dictators to amend the constitution.
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Birds have no country.you can expect anything from a power hungry person.propaganda can show a patriot,a traitor and a traitor,a patriot.
I love the 'Birds have no country' quote.
I'll be repeating it in all my political debates from now on. Thank you!
There are too many issues that this country is facing,PPP is not serious about anything, their tenure is coming to an end and they have done nothing except taking loan from IMF and making us to pay that loan. No light, no gas none of these issues are addressed and look at them enjoying and living a Life that they one just dream about.
Even Mansoor Ejaz said before the Commission that Memo was written by him, and not by Haqani, how did SC judges reach the conclusion that it was written by Haqani? It reminds me an earlier verdict of court on Martial Law of Gen. Musharaf, in which present CJ Iftikhar Ch granted the dictator Musharaf to amend the constitution of Pakista, even though, Gen. Musharaf had not asked for this.
He was an American citizen for Gods sake. Is there still a question of who his loyalty lies with ? Earlier this year a private forensic brit firm concluded through Mansoor Ijazs' BB that Haqqani had been in contact with Ijaz , contradicting Haqqanis claim that "he has never met Ijaz ,and never knew him ".
An independent inquiry now reveals that it really was Haqqani who wrote the Memo.What difference does it make now ? Do you think Haqqani will ever return ? Or the US will extradite an American citizen ?
If this was india or any other sovereign country ,Haqqani would have been placed on the ECL and would now be at the end of a rope ,dying a dogs death like Mir Jafar and Mir Sadiq .
Agreed.
My dear. He was on the ECL but Angel Mr. IFTIKHAR CHAUDHARY allowed him to travel to abroad. What it means that CJ had a soft corner for him. And it leads us to think that CJ is also a traitor.
let us see whether Haqani will ever appear before Supreme court?
Who are we kidding, he will die a dog's death in America than come back.
This report confirms what a foregone conclusion to start with. Haqqani was never worked for Pakistan interest. Real culprit behind this whole issue is sitting in president house.
I wholeheartedly agree.
Haqqani was always known to be a black sheep. Pity the nation who are represented by such traitors
But CJ is the blackest of all the sheep who s not only corrupt but he gave Musharaf right to amend the constitution, even though Mush had not asked for it. It is just same as now in Haqani case, SC decided that Haqani wrote the letter, even though Haqani's accuser, MansoorEjaz said that Haqani did not write the letter himself, but I(MansoorEjaz)
The commission in memo gate was assigned the task to look into the facts for the Apex court to determine if there is a need for a proper trial. Unfortunately the commission didn't give the opportunity to Haqqani to record his statement in London or via video link.
The commission in its judgement has been judgmental by declaring Haqqani as disloyal to Pakistan and working against the interest of the country he was representing. Looks like emotions have overcome the rational thinking and is not going to convey a very good impression.
The commission gave him so many opportunityies but this person never returned to Pakistan. He even violated the undertaking he gave to SC that he will be available to appear on three days notice. Not showing up confirms that this man has been a
involved in dubious activities. He msut be pinished.
I actually agree with PMLN. Zardari & Gilani should be brought forward & held accountable for their actions.
This is a case of treason.
Late but great courageous result from Supreme Court! Many agents identified and convicted by courts now, Haqqani, Malik, baber fallen out with the boss! whos next the big boss? The mafia and group of agents ruling Pakistan. Sharifs are also not very shareef as they look!
Memo Commission was sleeping. The Report has been hurriedly prepared to divert attention from Familygate. Shows the real mindset of our so-called honourable judges.
Haqqani is a piece of shittt !!! The main issue here is he flew abroad and would never come back as he knows his fate in this unfortunate country!!! This is not the first time an offender was allowed to exit the country infact its the bane of this country that everyone is allowed to do whatever they want and once they're done with their crap they fly abroad never to return !!!! Its us peaple and we need to change within to see a change but as long as we've got pricks like Haqqani , Zardari, Gillanis and the list never stops we would never be able to live a normal life in this country !!!! I hope they all die a miserable death !!!
Haqqani refused to pay Dr Arsalan….:-)
Hussain haqqani should be hanged and nothing less and if required should called by force and prosecuted.
There was never a doubt that Haqqani worked for US govt. even as an ambassador for Pakistan. Only fools believed that he was innocent. Hang the b a s t a r d.
When Haqqani is hanged, it should be paid entertainment and ppp jiayalas should be forced to buy the tickets with the money that they made by corruption. zardari could sell a few tickets in black 🙂
Now you have excited! Forget cricket, this will be real entertainment.
We can start taking bids for live coverage on tv 🙂
Here come the medical certificates….
LOL, you made me laugh. Very true.
why was suxh a man kept ,enemy of country kept in president and prime minister house must have been questioned by commission.it tells the real story who proyect our enemies
whats the point of all this now he has been taken out of Pakistan by US and Chief is getting punshied for missing and memo case by US .. using his new agent Maiik Riaz
why I said so? . because gunjah Malik Riaz Thaakadar ( his real name he used to construct houses for others) is now billionaire and he cannot put all his money in a gamble like that unless someone offered him lots of money in return and only US can offered that .. not Zardari who was flying on Malik's plane and pretending to be a sick person during the start of memo case .
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why commission cleared mr zardari.why did he keep him in president house -prime minister house
Treason. We all knew he was guilty
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"Guilty as charged?" — Nah …
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"Failed as Stated?" — Bet your life …
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Haqqani is an Honorable man …
SC justices are low life …
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Pakistan deserves Ambassadors like Ijaz and the kind …
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