Tag: Haqqani

US, Kabul point fingers at Haqqanis for deadly attack

The brazen attack by the Taliban in the Afghan capital on Sunday has once again brought the Haqqani network into sharp focus, with the...

SC to hear Haqqani’s plea for video link on 19th

The Supreme Court on Friday set April 19 to hear a petition filed by Pakistan’s former ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani seeking equal...

Haqqani writes to Blackberry company for record

Former ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani has written a letter to the Blackberry company ‘Research in Motion’ in which he has asked it...

Asma requests SC to set hearing date for Haqqani application on...

Husain Haqqani’s lawyer Asma Jahangir has told the Supreme Court that as she is returning to Pakistan on April 16, the hearing of Haqqani’s...

Haqqani seeks adjournment on ‘medical grounds’

Seeking ‘similar facilities as extended to Mansoor Ijaz’ to record his statement before the memo commission via video link from London, former ambassador to...

East and west

Movement on both fronts Some developments in foreign affairs. First, the meeting between the US and Pakistani heads of government, followed by the first ever...

Haqqani may seek political asylum in US

Anticipating an adverse decision from the apex court or the memo commission, former ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani is all set to seek...

SC moved to dismiss Haqqani’s plea for statement via video link

The Supreme Court was requested on Monday to dismiss Husain Haqqani’s Civil Miscellaneous Application (CMA), in which he had sought permission to record his...

Haqqani declines to appear before memo commission

Former ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani on Saturday declined to appear before the “memogate” commission mandated by the Supreme Court to probe the...

Haqqani unlikely to appear before memo commission

As the memo commission is gradually heading towards the conclusion of its proceedings after Mansoor Ijaz got done with his cross-examination and Husain Haqqani...

Memo commission directs Haqqani to appear on 26th

The Memo Commission on Tuesday observed that US national Mansoor Ijaz has concluded his evidence and former Pakistani ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani...

Zardari, Haqqani wanted to subjugate Army, ISI: Ijaz

Sticking to his previous statements and stance on the memo controversy, Mansoor Ijaz Saturday said that President Zardari and Husain Haqqani wanted to subjugate...

Memo commission, Haqqani’s counsel lock horns on cross-examination procedure

A high drama prevailed in the Islamabad High Court on Friday as Zahid Bukhari, the counsel for Husain Haqqani, continued putting ‘irrelevant’ questions to...

Haqqani’s lawyer leaves for London

Former Pakistani ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani’s lawyer Syed Zahid Hussain Bokhari on Tuesday left for London to cross examine US national Mansoor...

All ‘escape routes’ for Haqqani blocked

The memo commission on Friday did everything possible to block all ‘escape routes’ so far available to Husain Haqqani in the memo scandal by...

Haqqani free to fly

The Supreme Court granted on Monday another two months to the judicial commission to complete its findings in the infamous memo controversy and allowed...

ICJ concerned over Husain Haqqani’s security

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has expressed grave concern for the infringement of rights of Husain Haqqani, former Pakistani ambassador to the United...