Tag: Memo

‘Followers’ of memo can’t be trusted for Haqqani’s security: lawyer

Zahid Bukhari, the counsel for Husain Haqqani on Thursday said his client could not trust the security to be provided by the “followers of...

FO part of ‘cover up team’ in memo scandal: commission

The memo commission on Thursday held the Foreign Office (FO) part of the “cover up team” in the memo scandal, as FO Director General...

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 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...

I have secret proofs regarding memo scandal: Yasin Malik

Leader of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Yasin Malik has claimed that he knows some secrets regarding the memo scandal and his appearance before the...

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...

The Memo commission

Everyone needs to come clean Matters of state are never as simple and straightforward as one would like them to be. One statement may seem...

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...

‘Mansoor playing politics on Memo issue’

A spokesman for Hussain Haqqani’s legal team has said that Mansoor Ijaz is once again playing politics through media statements on the issue of...

Ijaz accuses Haqqani of attempting to ‘wipe out evidence’

Mansoor Ijaz, the star witness in the memo scandal, on Friday alleged that former ambassador Husain Haqqani twice attempted to delete the conversations from...

The ‘boss’ wanted to pre-empt ‘bad boys’: Ijaz

The memo scandal’s lead witness Mansoor Ijaz continued recording his testimony on Thursday, with startling claims about how Hussain Haqqani, the former Pakistani ambassador...

The memo is from the president, claims Ijaz

This is coming from the president who wants to put together a new national security team, similar to the security organisation in the...

Ijaz likely to record his statement before memo commission today

Both the fate of the government and the credibility of the star witness in the memo scandal, Mansoor Ijaz, depend on what is being...

Haqqani’s counsel unable to get UK visa

Zahid Hussain Bokhari, counsel for former ambassador to US Hussain Haqqani, on Monday said that he has not been able to acquire visa...

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...