Tag: Husain Haqqani

Asma refuses to continue as Haqqani’s counsel

Expressing reservations on the commission formed by the Supreme Court to probe memogate case, Asma Jahangir has refused to continue acting as counsel of...

SC to decide Haqqani’s fate on RIM’s report

Jurists say that with the memo case seized with the apex court, the fate of Husain Haqqani would now be decided by the data...

Parliamentary probe into memo begins

A parallel parliamentary probe into the memogate controversy also started with the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) on Friday, summoning former ambassador to...

State within a state

With escape routes blocked, how comes the end? The prime minister’s outbursts of December 22 have dashed any prospects that may still have lingered with...

Petition on Memogate not court issue: Asma

Asma Jahangir, counsel for former ambassador of Pakistan to US Hussain Haqqani, has declared that petition regarding Memogate was not a court issue, in...

Haqqani rebuts sensationalism about research funding

Former ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani has issued a rejoinder to identical stories in a numbers of newspapers that cite the US-based Smith...

ISI DG should have resigned after May 2 operation: Asma

Asma Jahangir, counsel for Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, on Monday said the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha...

Thrown into a tailspin

Why make a bad situation worse? Either he kept contradicting himself or his claims were being constantly refuted. Mansoor Ijaz must have been happy to...

Out in the open

The government and the military stand apart When the president left the country amid wild speculation regarding the state of his physical and mental health,...

Haqqani refutes efforts to ‘malign’ him

Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani has rejected the impression that he tried to leave the country along with President Zardari,...

Haqqani to learn fate of appeal

An appeal filed by former ambassador to United States Hussain Haqqani against the objections raised by the Supreme Court (SC) Registrar’s Office on his...

Haqqani asks SC to recall order, dismiss Nawaz’s petition

In response to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif’s petition seeking a probe into the memogate controversy, Pakistan’s former ambassador to the US...

Who is he?

Mansoor Ijaz, the person who is now all over the place. Ever since his controversial op-ed in the Financial Times he came to prominence,...

Haqqani’s name yet to be added to ECL

Despite the Supreme Court’s orders preventing Pakistan’s former ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani from leaving the country during the pendency of the memo...

Haqqani says Ijaz has become habitual accuser

Former ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani on Saturday said that Mansoor Ijaz had contracted a habit of leveling new allegations daily, and no...

‘Seeking foreign help objectionable, not treason’

Former US ambassador Husain Haqqani on Friday said he believed that if a Pakistani citizen asked another country to intervene in national affairs, it...

Civil-military relations

Who pulls the levers? Like Prime Minister Gilani, Hina Rabbani Khar has also confirmed that a high level committee would soon start investigating the Memogate...