Earlier, the apex court had affixed hearings for October 22. However, due to the unavailability of the bench the date was pushed forward to November 5.
On Tuesday, however, the SC issued notices to all parties for a November 12 hearing instead of the previously announced date.
A nine-member larger bench led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry will hear the controversial memo case in light of the memo commission’s findings.
Former Pakistan ambassador to US Hussain Haqqani was implicated in the scandal where he allegedly had a memo delivered to Admiral Mike Mullen through Mansoor Ijaz. The memo had offered greater government cooperation in return for US backing against the powerful military in the immediate aftermath of the May 2 raid.
A commission was formed with three high court judges at the helm to further probe the matter and ascertain the facts. The commission in its report did not find President Asif Ali Zardari to be involved.
The commission however was challenged and Asma Jehangir, counsel for former ambassador Haqqani, had filed a review application. Haqqani, through another counsel had also raised serious objections to the working and line adopted in the report.
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Interesting turn of event as part of asghar petition the SC has asked the government to take action against the former army generals and initiate the investigations against the other conspirators and on the other hand it has reinstated the Memo case which is perceived to be a case to trap the current government....interesting....is it coincident or a move to ?......?
If HH is found guilty of sending an unsigned and undated memo indirectly to the US general would the CJ and SC refer the punishment to the govt, just like they did against the generals and rightwing party leaders a couple of days ago? Even though the crimes of generals and their rightwing touts were certainly treason and involved hundreds of millions of public funds but there was no punishment even after 16 long years of the case. One shady man based charges against HH do not border stealing the elections and robbing the people of democracy. Let us see how fair and honest these judges are.
"The commission in its report did not find President Asif Ali Zardari to be involved".
ET is an internationally reputed newspaper but I am astonished at its reporting. It states whom the commission did not find involved but does not mention who was found involved. The commission has found Haqqani involved in memo-gate. Why the reporter has not mentioned this fact?
The matter has been lingering on for over a year ... Why Hussain Haqqni is not being brought to Pakistan? Who had given his surety? Justice Dealyed is Justice Denied!