Commission proceedings taking place at the Islamabad High Court were presided over by Justice Qazi Faiz Isa.
During the proceedings, Memo Commission Secretary Raja Jawad Hasan Abbas confirmed that he was present for the eight-hour long forensic test, adding that no one had interfered during that time.
After completing the proceedings, the commission said that a briefing will be taken in camera by the foreign ministry regarding the “secret funds”.
Boycotting the meeting, former ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani’s lawyer Zahid Bukhari said that he would present his objections on the proceedings and the detailed report in the Supreme Court.
Earlier, lawyers for Husain Haqqani stated that they would not appear before the Memo Commission when it met on Friday.
Instead, they said Haqqani would wait for the commission’s report before raising objections over the commissions’ proceedings before the Supreme Court.
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After four long months, the memo commission tasked with investigating Mansoor Ijaz’s claim against Husain Haqqani and his political bosses has brought to an end its formal hearings. What’s left now is for the commission to compile its report and recommendations and submit them to the Supreme Court, a process that may be completed by early June. At that point, it can only be hoped that the Mansoor Ijaz memo will once and for all be confined to the dustbin of history. For in all the months of hearings held by the memo commission, nothing that can be considered serious grounds for further legal proceedings has been presented before the commission. That three high court chief justices have spent months sifting through the allegations and counter-allegations over memogate is bad enough; to waste more time of the superior judiciary on the matter would compound the original error.
@ Mirza: Well said! totally agree with you!
@mirza most eloquently put
It is a mistake to thinks that judges are any better than politicians A political game is being played openly in the guises of justice which is damaging the very basic fabric of judicia system
@jibran: I agree with you 100% @S Bhatti: Who are you to decide who hurts Pakistan and who helps? The majority of people have repeatedly elected PPP and the current govt only because they trust them to rule Pakistan. It is the urban elite who do not have stomach ever to accept people's verdict on one pretext or the other. PPP and Zardari were elected unanimously despite the old Swiss cases. Four years later it became the biggest issue! The nation repeatedly rejected and voted against the mullah/military/judiciary alliance and their multiple acts of high treason. How many more elections would it take for the rightwing alliance to accept the election results? People talk about corruption and crime. There cannot be a worse crime against the country as high treason. Yet not a single judge or general is not tried for even a minor crime let alone hanged for high treason. These are Ali Baba and gang not the paid govt servants who are not supposed to take part in politics and follow the constitution and not repeatedly violate it. Regards, Mirza
@S Bhatti: That's where we differ my friend. majority of pakistanis believe (minus some bhattis, awans, and araeens of northern Punjab) believe that zardari is single handedly confronting the nexus of judiciary and establishment plus Pakistan memo league who are hell bent art destroying the country and it's social fiber.
I think you people who are criticising the hounerable judges you should think twice before doing this because you are not criticising them but are supporting the people whe are determine to harm the Pakistan Like Haqqani, Zardari, and Rehman Malik. Do you think these people are sincere to Pakistan ??? Not at all. Just think about Pakistan situation 10 years ago and situation in these days. It has gone worse in every aspect. The only thing which has improve is their wealth and bank balance. They don't care about pakistan or about the people of Pakistan. My fear is that if they carry on like this they destroy the country. So be Pakistani. Think Pakistani.
The PCO judges have to find something more political with "some" meat. This was a whole lot of nothing based upon one shady character.
Instead of delivering justice to the people, their primary job, these PCO judges have turned the superior court into a circus. They are holding lame kachehries, sham investigations, indulging in petty issues, political Bickery, settling personal vendettas. The courts are now a laughing stock. And all this at the cost of poor people.
PCO judges wasting their time & ours in futile efforts against civilians......
Tuts good news,at last the go ernoment will have to pack their bags n m waiting for thy day
Whatever the conclusion of the Commission, Mr. Hussain Haqqani diminished himself in stature and every other way by abusing the concession afforded by the Court in allowing him to leave Pakistan. He further tarnished the already bad image of the Government. If this is the level of person appointed as the government representative to U.S, just imagine the rot.
never have so many judges done so much for so a little thing no matter what the report says it has lost all credibility