Tag: memogate

The shenanigans of Mansoor Ijaz are now really getting out of hand. Now he wants to come to Pakistan. Now he doesn’t. In the...

Director General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt-Gen Shuja Pasha on Tuesday submitted his statement on the memogate scandal to the Parliamentary Committee on National Security...

Chief Justice Balochistan High Court (BHC) Justice Qazi Faiz Eesa expressed displeasure over the statements given by the government’s top executive regarding the security...

Zahid Hussain Bukhari, the counsel for former ambassador to US Hussain Haqqani, said that Mansoor Ijaz, despite promising twice, has ridiculed the commission by...

US based Pakistani businessman Mansoor Ijaz has again hinged his decision of visiting Pakistan with the condition that military would provide him security. Talking to...

Mansoor Ijaz's counsel Muhammad Akram Sheikh said that the Pakistan-American businessman has refused to come to Pakistan and has asked the commission to record...

Mansoor Ijaz, the main character behind memogate scandal, has expressed concerns at being summoned by a parliamentary committee, but said he is not going...

Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said on Thursday that Mansoor Ijaz had not applied for his Pakistani visa, according to media reports. The FO spokesman...

A local Islamabad court dismissed an application seeking the registration of a case against Mansoor Ijaz in a police station. According to a private television...

Research in Motion (RIM), the Canada-based Blackberry phone service provider, has reportedly refused to release the records of phone calls and text messages between...

Counsel for US businessman Mansoor Ijaz, Advocate Akram Shaikh, on Monday told the commission set up to probe on the memo controversy that Ijaz...

It’s wearing a judicial wig and an army uniform Overdose of speculation lead to ‘Great Expectations’ the last maddening week. With uncertainty and speculation rife,...

Ignoring the external context for our internal turmoil In the last few days, a number of scenarios are being discussed in the media that could...

The counsel of American-Pakistani businessman Mansoor Ijaz on Friday asked Attorney General of Pakistan Maulvi Anwarul Haq to push forward the date of the...

The military top brass, which met on Thursday amid a widening rift between the army and the civilian government, decided that it would not...

The government’s tribulations It is three fronts that the government faces today. First, the military, whose sabre-rattling, never too subtle at the best of times,...

Statesmanship not brinkmanship As Pakistan's power titans, the government, the army and the judiciary, seemingly come to blows, it is now free for all. Political...