Tag: Mansoor Ijaz

Memo Commission secy off to London for Ijaz’s statement

The memo commission secretary Raja Jawad Hassan Abbas left for London on Sunday to collect evidence material from the lead witness Mansoor Ijaz and...

The villainous cover-ups

The decline is steep and remedies extinct The word governance in Pakistan has become synonymous with everything degenerate. While the hapless people are pounded with...

No ‘smoking gun’ in Mansoor Ijaz testimony

The testimony of Mansoor Ijaz, US national and lead witness in the memogate affair, submitted by Ijaz’s counsel Akram Sheikh to the Memo Commission,...

The memo scourge

A reality one moment, gone the next The memo issue has been debated extensively and exhaustively. The reason it should be debated further is because,...

Mansoor Ijaz – coming to a screen near you on 22nd

The memo commission decided on Friday to record the statement of the main witness, Mansoor Ijaz, via live video conference from Pakistan’s High Commission...

Mullen refuses to appear before memo commission

Former US military chief Admiral Mike Mullen has written a letter to the Supreme Court refusing to appear before the commission investigating the memo...

M&M: the misguided missiles!

Pakistan is better off without Mansoor & Musharraf This is not a tale of two cities, of two ideas, or even of two friends. Instead...

Much ado about nothing?

Haqqani leaves Will the furies have no mercy on the champions of doom and gloom in the country? Will the national addiction to drama -...

SC moved to put Mansoor Ijaz on ECL

Supreme Court (SC) has been moved to put American-Pakistani businessman Mansoor Ijaz on exit control list (ECL). According to a private television channel, the petitioner,...

Media is not the culprit here

Let's stick with the facts, Mr Prime Minister Troubled relations have given way to calmer times between Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gaillani and the army...

Petitions moved for closure of Mansoor Ijaz’s evidence, recording of statement...

Two separate applications were submitted with the apex court on Saturday – one seeking the closure of Mansoor Ijaz’s evidence for his failure to...

Mansoor files application in SC to record statement abroad

The main character in memogate scam , Mansoor Ijaz has submitted an application in the Supreme Court that his statement might be recorded outside...

Shahbaz reiterates security protection for Mansoor Ijaz

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has once again offered to provide full security to Mansoor Ijaz if he comes to Pakistan for his statement...

Method in the madness?

The mess that is civil-military relations The prime minister of late has developed a penchant for first making statements critical of the military establishment and...

Merely sound and fury

The times we are enduring If ever a doubt lingered with regard to us having regressed beyond redemption, it should go away with the ongoing...

Malik threatens to move court against Shahbaz

Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday termed Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif's statement on providing security to Mansoor Ijaz as 'contempt of court'. Talking to...

Backtracking

Civilian, assert thyself. Or not. Gilani has gone back on his stand that the military leadership had violated the constitution and rules of business by...