Islamabad: The Supreme Court of Pakistan will hear the memogate case on December 01 tomorrow (Thursday).
The case will be heard by a nine-member larger bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
PML-N president Nawaz Sharif had filed a petition in the Supreme Court in regards to memogate.
Meanwhile, Mian Nawaz filed applications to for early hearing of the case and including Hussain Haqqani name in Exit Control List (ECL). It is worth mentioning here that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has filed a constitutional petition with regard to ‘memo controversy’ in the Supreme Court on 22 November.
PML-N leaders including Nawaz Sharif, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Ishaq Dar, Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Abbasi, lt general (retd) Abdul Qadir Baloch and other PML-N leaders from various provinces have filed the constitutional petition under Article 184-3 of constitution through senior advocate of apex court Fakharuddin G Ibrahim.
Meanwhile court has clubbed another petition on memo issue filed by advocate Tariq Asad, with the case.
PML-N has made president, Federation, Chief of the Army Staff, Hussain Haqqani, Mansoor Ijaz, DG ISI Ahmed Shuja Pasha and foreign secretary party in the case.
PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif, in his petition, referred to Mansoor Ijaz’s article in the UK paper and stated that President Zardari and Hussain Haqqani denied the claims initially; therefore, the court should play its role in the matter to safeguard national interest.
PML-N has demanded a probe the memo issue, adding that a transparent inquiry and action against the responsible should be ordered. The petitioner has appealed the apex court to play its productive role in the important national issue. it has been said that earlier president Zardari and Haqqani had rejected that article of US national Mansoor Ijaz.
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