Tag: memogate
Who is he?
Mansoor Ijaz, the person who is now all over the place. Ever since his controversial op-ed in the Financial Times he came to prominence,...
The memo case
Criticism from legal quarters
While some of the observations made by the judges during the hearing of the Memo case had caused unusual concern in...
Crisis after crisis
We have had an endless series of crises – not so long ago it was Memogate; now it is the callous Nato attack on...
Taking it to the SC
The ball is now in the Court
The tendency among the political class to seek the removal of their rivals from the political scene through...
Beleaguered
A series of most unfortunate events
The Supreme Court finally taking cognizance of Memogate and constituting an inquiry commission headed by a former FIA head...
Corrupt and corrupter?
The master stroke rests with the judiciary
Let’s have two things straight. The lack of delivery of the PPP-led government, the mammoth dossier of corruption...
President, PM meet after SC memogate hearing
President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani held a meeting after the Supreme Court ordered government to file reply in memogate...
SC to take up memogate case on December 1
The Supreme Court will take up on December 1 the constitutional petition of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif and others seeking a...
Dos and don’ts
Our envoy in Washington
“Our country! …may she always be right; but right or wrong, our country!” is how an American naval officer Stephen Decatur...
Gilani authorises parliamentary body to probe ‘memogate’
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has formally authorised the Parliamentary Committee on National Security to probe into the “memogate” issue and submit its report...
Civil-military relations
Who pulls the levers?
Like Prime Minister Gilani, Hina Rabbani Khar has also confirmed that a high level committee would soon start investigating the Memogate...
The climax and the casualty
Something had to give
On the surface, Memogate came as much a surprise to the government of Pakistan as that of the US. However, the...
On Memogate
The memo controversy has been rocking the feeble Pakistani state for some time now. Who did what, how it was done, what was the...
Haqqani’s resignation
The memo scandal is a very big and serious issue but it looks like that the government is not taking it seriously. Hussain Haqqani...
‘Memogate is Pakistan’s internal matter’
The issue of writing a secret memo to the American government is Pakistan’s internal matter and the Pakistan government will resolve it, and we...
Limited options
Out of the docket, into the fire
A 17-member Supreme Court bench has rejected the review petition against its verdict on NRO delivered on December...
