Supreme Court to hear memogate case today
ISLAMABAD: A nine-judge larger bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan will resume hearing memogate case today .The memogate scandal had been roiling the country and put PPP-led government on a...
January 28, 2013
The memogate scandal had been roiling the country and put PPP-led government on a collision course with the military establishment in 2011 after a Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz claimed that Hussain Haqqani, then Islamabad’s ambassador to Washington, conveyed a memo to then US Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Admiral Mike Mullen on behalf of President Asif Ali Zardari, seeking help against Pakistan’s military leadership in the wake of US raid on Abbottabad that led to killing of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
The Supreme Court set up a commission headed by then Balochistan High Court Chief Justice Qazi Faez Esa to probe the issue. The commission had found Hussain Haqqani guilty. The SC had ordered the former ambassador to appear before it but he didn’t show up.
