Islamabad: Controversial Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, a key figure in the memo scandal, on Friday claimed that President Asif Ali Zardari had advance information of the US military raid that killed al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad last year. Ijaz further claimed that Zardari had telephoned army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on the day of the US raid and asked him not to use F-16 combat jets to...
05:26 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities have finalised arrangements to record via a video link from London the testimony of American businessman Mansoor Ijaz regarding a mysterious memo that had sought US help to stave off a possible coup last year. Zahid Bukhari, the lawyer of Pakistan's former envoy to the US, Husain Haqqani, and two of his associates were issued British visas on Tuesday to go to London to cross-examine Ijaz. Haqqani...
08:30 AM, Feb 22, 2012
Islamabad: Mansoor Ijaz, the star witness in Pakistan's memo scandal, will be allowed to record his testimony via a video-link from London, the judicial panel probing the episode ordered on Friday after his repeated failures to appear before it threatened to derail the investigation. The judicial commission set a February 22 date for Ijaz's testimony that will be recorded from the Pakistani High Commission in the UK. The development came...
07:32 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Islamabad: American businessman Mansoor Ijaz on Thursday failed to avail a final opportunity to depose before a Pakistani judicial commission investigating the memo scandal, with his lawyer saying that he was prepared to record his statement at the Pakistani mission in London. The Supreme Court-appointed commission observed that Ijaz had made a U-turn on the issue of coming to Pakistan to depose despite all sorts of assurances given by the...
02:24 PM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Pakistan Supreme Court has ordered controversial US businessman Mansoor Ijaz to give his deposition in the Memogate scandal by Thursday. Ijaz has so far evaded two hearings with his counsel Akram Sheikh asking for a venue abroad, citing security concerns. Ijaz claims that he delivered a memo to the US administration at the behest of Pakistan's former envoy to the US Hussain Haqqani but Islamabad has denied...
08:46 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's former envoy to the US Husain Haqqani on Tuesday left for the US after the Supreme Court eased travel restrictions that were imposed on him after he was implicated in the memo scandal. Haqqani travelled from the Prime Minister's House, where he was living for the past few weeks, to the international airport in Rawalpindi along with a large security detail early this morning. He did not talk...
12:14 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday further eased tension in the country's worst crisis in civilian-military ties since a 1999 coup by lifting a travel ban on a former envoy to Washington, who angered the generals after the emergence of a murky memo. Husain Haqqani was barred from leaving the country in December by the Supreme Court, which is investigating the memo that sought US help in reining in Pakistan's...
01:58 AM, Jan 31, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan government is unlikely to grant another extension to ISI chief Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, whose current term in office ends in March, sources said on Monday. It is believed that the government's decision has largely been influenced by Pasha's role in the standoff between the military and the civilian government over the alleged memo that had sought US help to stave off a feared coup in Pakistan...
06:21 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday lifted a travel ban on the country's former ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani, as it gave the judicial commission two more months to complete its probe in the memo scandal that rocked ties between the civilian government and the military. The top court also said that the panel would decide on controversial Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz's request to record his statement outside the...
04:38 PM, Jan 30, 2012
Yousuf Raza Gilani reiterated that former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will be arrested if he enters the country. ...
07:48 AM, Jan 28, 2012
Islamabad: The Pakistani Parliamentary panel investigating a mysterious memo that triggered a standoff between the civilian government and the military on Thursday issued summons to American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, the central figure in the scandal, to appear before it on February 10. Against the backdrop of Ijaz's repeated claims that he would not come to Pakistan to provide evidence regarding the alleged memo due to perceived threats to his life,...
05:12 PM, Jan 26, 2012
Washington: The United States has expressed satisfaction that various wings of the establishment in Pakistan are talking to each other to resolve the ongoing stalemate. "We are pleased to see that the groups are talking to each other and trying to work through these issues," Victoria Nuland, State Department spokesperson told reporters. Nuland reiterated that the US supports a civilian government in Pakistan. "We support the civilian government. We want...
08:09 AM, Jan 25, 2012
Islamabad: The Pakistani judicial commission probing the memo scandal on Tuesday questioned the failure of star witness Mansoor Ijaz to appear before it and summoned Interior Minister Rehman Malik to respond to allegations regarding security to be provided to the controversial businessman. During a meeting at the Islamabad High Court complex, the Supreme Court-appointed panel's Chairman, Balochistan High Court Chief Justice Qazi Faez Eesa, enquired why Pakistani-American businessman Ijaz was...
01:12 PM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: Mansoor Ijaz, the businessman and the alleged courier in the memogate row, has alleged that he is being threatened by the Pakistan government representatives. Ijaz's counsel, Akram Sheikh in a written statement to the Judicial Commission, said that the businessman's arrival could have led to a clash between the Government and the Army. Ijaz, an American of Pakistani origin who triggered a confrontation between Pakistan's civilian government and...
12:02 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Islamabad: Former Pakistan's ambassador to US Husain Haqqani on Monday said that the right of Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz to depose before a judicial panel probing the memo scandal should be withdrawn if he failed to appear before the panel on Tuesday. In an application filed with the three-judge commission appointed by the Supreme Court, Haqqani said Ijaz should lose his right to testify on the memo issue if he...
07:50 PM, Jan 23, 2012
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