Tag: memogate

The Supreme Court (SC), while taking up the petition to review the court's verdict of the Memogate scandal, fixed January 17 for the hearing...

National security and democracy National security is integral to any state system. Internal and external dimensions of national security are assigned an important place in...

Waiting for the (in)glorious comeback It has been more than three years since Musharraf left the country, but it’s on the announcement of his return...

The high level Judicial Commission set up by the Supreme Court (SC) to probe the Memogate scandal ordered the Attorney General to issue visa...

Interior Minister Rahman Malik on Sunday termed memogate as ‘fasaad-gate’ and said that memogate issue had spoiled the feelings of Pakistani nation. Talking to...

The Supreme Court’s short judgment has surprised all. The petitioners could neither prove any violation of fundamental rights as their petition claimed, nor could...

Not ideal given the turmoil The defiant note struck at the PPP’s core committee meeting is likely to jack up confrontation between the executive and...

Many a slip between the lip and the cup The PPP core committee jointly chaired by the president and the prime minister has ostensibly struck...

A three-member judicial commission probing the memogate controversy has issued notices to all the petitioners and respondents, including President Asif Ali Zardari, for January...

For the attention of our revered judges, with utmost respect It seems the infamous memo had indeed threatened to tear down the very security of...

The Judicial Commission, formed to review the controversial Memogate, has re-summoned all parties to appear before the commission for recording their respective statements. The commission...

On the competence of the electorate If an elected person or group of persons proves disappointing one can only blame oneself, as with marriage to...

The devaluation of rupee has reached 90.00 per dollar. It weakened 4.82 percent in 2011, mainly because of import payments and a bleak outlook...

The man at the centre of Memogate scam, Hussain Haqqani, tried to involve Benazir Bhutto in a similar conspiracy during the first tenure of...

The Commission constituted to probe into the Memogate case was challenged in Supreme Court here on Monday. The petitioner Shahid Orakzai took the plea...

Reservations abound Looking at the immediate reactions to the Supreme Court verdict on the maintainability of the memo case, one is led to conclude that...

"The fault is not in our stars" Times present are acute uncertainty. Pakistan is certainly in trouble, but the world is in even more trouble....