Tag: Memo

Zardari was unaware of memo: Mansoor Ijaz

Mansoor Ijaz, the US-based Pakistani businessman, has rejected reports that Zardari was aware of the controversial memo. According to the media reports, Mansoor Ijaz stepped...

What’s in a leak?

There’s been a deliberate effort to release noxious gases from some very wily bowels Apart from unsavoury bodily functions, the term generally refers to the...

On Memogate

A little piece of paper can cause a lot of problems. Memogate has stirred a veritable storm in the country and the hawks are...

Patriot games

Above reproach By now, the specifics, or lack thereof, of the Mansoor Ijaz memo saga have been plastered all over the press and the airwaves....

Memo: ‘Q’ MPs for end to alliance with PPP

As tension mounts in the power corridors over the Memogate scandal, the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) parliamentarians have started advising the party’s central command...

Bashir likely to replace Haqqani

As a result of Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani’s likely removal from his office, a major reshuffle will take place in the...

CM deems Zardari behind memogate

Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif has said the memo sent to Mike Mullen is a conspiracy against the sovereignty, security and defence of...

It reeks of…

More to Memogate Unfortunately, life isn’t a law school classroom. Why do I lament that fact? Law school classrooms are often home to the raising...

Who should come out clean?

Mr Arif Nizami, in his recent article, "The medium and the message" has touched the most sensitive issue confronting the nation’s sovereignty. It is...

The memo issue

The political nuclear bomb has already exploded. The Hussain Haqqani-Mike Mullen story as told by Mansoor Ijaz is full of a script that can...

PM responsible if Haqqani involved: Mukhtar

Amid raging political storm in the country over secret memogate, Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar on Sunday said the prime minister would be responsible...

Pasha met Ijaz to verify ‘memo’ claims in London

ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha met Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz in London to verify his claims that he helped deliver to US...

Blowing memo issue out of proportion to do no service: Shujaat

PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said President Asif Ali Zardari was not a child and had not written any letter to former US...

Husain Haqqani has arrived

Pakistan's Ambassador to US Husain Haqqani has arrived in Pakistan. He will be meeting President Asif Ali Zardari and will give explanation over the...

Haqqani leaves for Pakistan over secret memo

Hussain Haqqani, Pakistan’s ambassador to the US, left for Islamabad on Saturday after an explanation was sought from him over a secret memo to...

Probe memo scandal in 10 days, Nawaz tells govt

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif on Saturday demanded the government form an inquiry commission to probe into the Washington memo scandal and...