Tag: memogate

Memogate: Ijaz differs with Jones’ affidavit

Mansoor Ijaz, the US businessman at the centre of the memogate scandal, has clarified that he had first contact with former US National Security...

The military-civilian chasm

Who will fall through? What was common knowledge is now official. Going by the replies filed by the Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, ISI...

PML-N to take NATO attack, memogate scam to NA

The PML-N would table the important national issues like NATO attack, memogate scandal and situation in the country after contradictory statements of ministers regarding...

President’s reply in memogate case as per law, says Babar

President’s spokesman Farhatullah Babar on Wednesday said President Asif Ali Zardari would file his reply with the Supreme Court as per law and the...

The memo of treachery

Hidden behind intentions of the persons who sent the infamous memo of the Memogate, there is another one too: the Memo of Treachery, and...

Let people decide

President Zardari’s illness has again sparked a series of rumour-mongering which has proved to be a further blow to the existing instability of Pakistan....

I was not privy to the US’ OBL operation

Ever since the Memo scandal our media mongers whose previous almost daily predictions over the past four years about the demise of the democratic...

Hard to swallow

The Memogate seems to have become a proverbial ‘bone stuck in the throat’ of the government. If it wants to play it down, the...

‘We’ will face and defeat cases in courts: PM

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Sunday said that his government would face and defeat all the cases in courts that were apparently...

Rumours run amok

A flurry of palpitations… There is never a dull moment in Pakistani politics. Just when the ubiquitous media pundits and discussants hopping from one electronic...

The plot thickens

A system corrupted beyond cure? A vile premonition has followed the incumbent government each day of its four years in the halls of power. And...

SC to resume ‘memogate’ hearing on 19th

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJ) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry with consent of other judges has fixed December 19 as the date for resumption of hearing...

He ain’t going nowhere!

Love him or hate him Even if you are an unabashed critic of the man, you have to grant him one thing, even if grudgingly:...

The Memogate

Pakistan is seriously facing a leadership crisis. Our so-called leaders have forgotten all ethics and morality in running state affairs. They can do anything...

Sharifs’ political survival

During the hearing of Nawaz Sharif’s petition on Memogate in Supreme Court, he said that he had no confidence in the parliament. Therefore, he...

Rumour, again, has it

Our dysfunctional republic “Anything can happen in life,” quips Michel Houellebecq, “especially nothing.” The rumours that are making the rounds after the president left the country...

Rumour mill overdrive

US birdies all around The readers will recall that last week I mentioned an analyst Spengler’s article in connection with American plans for the region...