LAHORE: Lahore High Court on Friday directed both the petitioner and the respondents in the Memo Scandal case to assist on whether or not the court could issue orders for giving lie detector tests to Hussain Haqqani, Pakistan’s former envoy to the United States.
Iftikhar Rajpoot had filed the petition for registration of a high treason case against the former Pakistani envoy. The petitioner had named Cabinet Secretary Nargis Sethi, Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq as respondents.
The petitioner had also accused Haqqani of wasting public money by helping pay for the defence of Dr Aafia Siddiqui in US courts. The court will resume hearing of the case on December 20.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 10th, 2011.
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Please call Mansoor Ijaz to end this cat & mouse game.
"Rajpoot accused that Haqqani has tarnished the image of both Pakistan and its armed forces." The atrocities and abject surrender in East Pakistan did not tarnish the image of Pakistan and its army. The Kargil adventure and selling nuclear tech to rogue states did not. Found in bed with OBL did not tarnish the image of the army, but an unsigned piece of paper did? Why polygraph tests are never used for the above and similar debacles? Why is both LHC and PCO SC dealing with the same thing simultaneously on an emergency bais? Is polygraph test used in Pakistani courts or elected civilian govt is specifically chosen for this? Why no such test was performed on the protectors of OBL by Justice Iqbal commission? Why all cases against PPP start in Punjab HC and never in other High courts?