Tag: Mansoor Ijaz

Politics on memo issue

There is more to it than meets the eye Interesting developments that raise uneasy questions took place before the memo case was filed in the...

CJ assures transparent memo case hearing

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry on Wednesday said the investigations into Memogate scandal will be more transparent under the judiciary. The Supreme...

Different strokes

On the president’s dash to Dubai Dear Doctor Dubai: You are a very busy man, Doc, as anyone who commands the sole confidence of the...

Don’t blame the PM

It’s not what he said, it’s why he did… Critics blame Prime Minister Gilani for opening a new front unnecessarily and subject him to scathing...

Take-no-dictation moment?

Now, eyeball to eyeball Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani – usually soft spoken and compromise-seeking – thunderously declaring “there can be no state within a...

Personal to the political

Can the army defend this country from itself? A December 21, 2011 Inter-Services Press Release No PR301/2011-ISPR reads: “An article was published in the daily,...

The game changer

Just as the Peoples Party had completed a stunning transformation from its long-running anti-establishment persona to the one seen as a defender of the...

Mansoor Ijaz claims 3 Pakistani officials drafted memo

The key character of memogate scandal, Mansoor Ijaz, has made fresh revelations in his reply submitted in Supreme Court. He also said that US Gen....

Ijaz differs with Jones’ affidavit on ‘memogate’

Mansoor Ijaz has said James Jones is a friend but he differs with some of points in his affidavit. Ijaz in a statement on Saturday...

Enough of standoffs

Time to back down While the common man in Pakistan is harassed by ever increasing economic woes, lawlessness and uncertainty about the country’s security after...

One standard for all?

What is good for the goose... They might have gone too far, the ANP’s Bushra Gohar and the PML(N)’s Chaudhry Nisar, in demanding the resignation...

The military-civilian chasm

Who will fall through? What was common knowledge is now official. Going by the replies filed by the Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, ISI...

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,...

One-man demolition squad

Thus spake Mansoor, again… Mansoor Ijaz’s claim regarding the alleged memo was taken extremely seriously by the establishment, opposition parties and the Supreme Court. The...

SC receives Ijaz’s reply in memo scandal

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday received Mansoor Ijaz’s reply in the secret memo scandal case. Ijaz accused former Pakistan ambassador to US Hussain...

Rumours run amok

A flurry of palpitations… There is never a dull moment in Pakistani politics. Just when the ubiquitous media pundits and discussants hopping from one electronic...

The plot thickens

A system corrupted beyond cure? A vile premonition has followed the incumbent government each day of its four years in the halls of power. And...