Tag: Scandal

FO part of ‘cover up team’ in memo scandal: commission

The memo commission on Thursday held the Foreign Office (FO) part of the “cover up team” in the memo scandal, as FO Director General...

Malik decides to sue Shahbaz

Interior Minister Rehman Malik did not take any amount from Intelligence Bureau (IB), Interior ministry spokesman said on Thursday. The statement of the spokesman came...

All in national interest

But, of course The Mehrangate scandal reveals what crimes can be committed in the name of “supreme national interest.” A president and a COAS had...

Ijaz hatching conspiracy on someone else’s direction: Asma

US national Mansoor Ijaz is hatching a conspiracy against the federal government on someone else’s direction, renowned human rights activist Asma Jahangir said on...

Blow for Merkel as scandal-hit president resigns

Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday she would seek a cross-party candidate after the resignation of Germany's scandal-hit president dealt her a blow as she...

Salman Bashir appears before Islamabad High Court

According to a private TV channel, Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir appeared at the Islamabad High Court (IHC) where a meeting of the judicial commission...

Last nail

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...

Mansoor the menace

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...

Civil-military tensions

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...

Who will be president?

Obama’s still got the ‘keys’ to victory Amidst all the fuss about President Obama's sagging poll numbers, the struggling US economy, and "who's up and...

Opposition ups heat on Merkel over president scandal

Germany’s main opposition party piled pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday over a scandal dogging her handpicked candidate for president, calling for new...

Memo scandal: Mansoor Ijaz submits BlackBerry PIN

Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz on Friday submitted his Blackberry personal identification number (PIN) to the commission probing the memogate scam and also urged ex-ambassador...

Former Israel PM indicted for graft in property scandal

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert was on Thursday indicted alongside a number of other people for allegedly taking bribes in a massive property...

Tape scandal to be made public in return to 90s politics

In what seemed to be a step to revive the politics of the 90s and muddle political issues at the judicial front, the government...

Khosa declines to head memogate probe

Former director general of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Tariq Khosa has refused to head the commission formed by the Supreme Court to probe...

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...

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...