As the memo controversy is getting more perplexed with every passing moment and the prime minister’s emotional outbursts of Thursday have virtually pitched the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) government against the army, Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar has sought an explanation from Defence Secretary Lt General (r) Naeem Khalid Lodhi over the Defence Ministry’s reply submitted to the Supreme Court in the memo case.
A reliable source told Pakistan Today that Mukhtar was angry over the reply sent by the secretary in which the ministry told the apex court that it had no control over army and intelligence operations. “Ahmed Mukhtar has asked the defence secretary to explain that with whose permission and approval he submitted such a reply to the apex court,” the source said, adding that the top government functionaries were of the view that the reply submitted by the defence secretary was not in line with the government’s policy vis-à-vis handling the memo case in the superior judiciary.
The defence secretary had stated in his reply that the ministry had no control over operations of the army and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and prayed that it should not be made answerable with regards to statements of Husain Haqqani and Mansoor Ijaz. The ministry had stated further that it was not in a position to submit any explanation of the reply on the army and ISI’s behalf.
Defence Secretary should be removed.
Thank God Ahmed Mukhtar was not give the prime job. I always had doubts about his relations with deep state.
Government should have appointed someone with defence know-how as the defence minister so that the secretary and minister have a better working relationship. Mr. Ahmed Mukhtar is an educated person in his own field and his expertise should have been used somewhere else suitable to his background from day one of this government.
Ahmed Mukhtar may the know the shoe technology backwards but he has nothing to do with defence matters.
Whats wrong if secretary telling truth ?:)))) Mukhtar you better try to get new contract of making Hush Puppies for US market..
shoemaker go make shoes and dont try selling pakistan again with or without your boss
According to the rules, the inquiry committee can summon any one of any status and it would be his obligation to appear before the committee. Taking approvals and approvals always drags a case in delays and lengthy procedures. The facts and truth do not need any approval. However, the boss may go angry for injuring his powers and Tehka. If taken seriously, Naeem Khalid did nothing which goes against the truth. His version is quite harmless and also supportive to the government.
Both the persons of students of the same teachers and the same school i.e. Abbottabad Public school to which I am too. NAEEM QURESHI, LAHORE
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