Islamabad: The Supreme Court of Pakistan will resume the hearing of memogate case today after almost 2.5 months. The case would be heard by a nine-judge larger bench of the apex court.
It is to be mentioned here that the last hearing of the case was held on November 13, 2012, where the apex court sought details from Hussain Haqqani’s solicitor Asma Jahangir to file the threats, which were stopping her client from returning homeland.
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.
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