Tag: memogate

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

The fifth meeting of a three-member Judicial Commission constituted by Supreme Court to probe memogate will be held on Thursday in Islamabad High Court. Commission...

Too much? The most challenging task in democracy is to balance rights and rightful role on the one hand and obligations and societal good on...

Sleep tight, we are too On no less than three separate occasions in January alone, the US drones violated the Pakistani airspace and managed to...

Civilian oversight needed The ubiquitous Pakistani intelligence apparatus, particularly the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, is under fire, both from within the country and from our erstwhile...

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

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

Everybody jostles In an interview to a foreign news channel in Davos on January 26, PM Gilani rejected the notion that “democracy was under threat...

Former ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani’s departure from Pakistan after the Memogate scandal seems like the proverbial last nail in the coffin...

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,...

Former Pakistan Ambassador to US Husain Haqqani says he will continue to cooperate with the Supreme Court (SC) appointed judicial commission to probe the...

The memo controversy seems to remain an inextricable riddle for the nation as the de-escalation phase begins. It was expected. Prime Minister Yousaf Raza...

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...

The Supreme Court would hear the memo case on January 30 in which it is expected to decide on whether it would grant more...

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...

The truth, the whole truth and anything but the truth We all want to see Mansoor Ejaz ride into the American sunset. But not yet. Reason: Wittingly...

Conciliation, not confrontation After several rounds of near head-on collisions with military institutions, the PPP-led government seems to have finally settled down for its pre-Memogate...