Chairman Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front Yasin Malik said Monday all the allegations leveled by Mansoor Ejaz against him were a pack of lies.
He said this while talking to media men outside Islamabad High Court. Kashmiri leader said he had met Mansoor Ejaz but the allegations leveled against him were all false.
“I have come to court without any counsel. I be allowed by the court to appear before Memo Commission so that I could prove truth. My appearance will prove positive for the commission and I will give replies to all the allegations before commission”, he said.
A 15-year-old Pakistani student Moosa Feroz on Sunday won a gold medal in an Online World Mathematics Competition held in Australia. Over one point, about 5 million children from 100 counties around the globe took part in the competition which was held in the first week of March.
Extremist Hindu party Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray’s granddaughter Neha Gupta married a Gujarati Muslim in Mumbai on December 4, media reports said. Neha is the daughter of Bal Thackeray’s eldest son late Bindumadhav. Neha, 25, has married Muhammad Nabi, 27, son of an old friend of Bindumadhav and Raj Thackeray. The marriage has further cemented the family’s bond with the MNS leader. The entire family, excluding Bal Thackeray, attended the wedding at Hotel Taj Lands End. Neha’s mother Madhavi Thackeray welcomed guests like Manohar Joshi, Ram Kadam, Ashish Shelar, Gopal Shetty, Nitin Sardesai and wife Swati, Mangesh Sangle, Shirish Parkar, Shishir Shinde and others. Raj Thackeray, too, attended the reception, along with his wife and sons, reports said.
Police on Monday submitted to Sindh High Court a reported on murder of a lawyer leader and his son in Karachi. Salahuddin Haider, 70, and his 35-year-old son, Ali Raza, were gunned down by unidentified assailants in the remits of the Malir City police station on Saturday when they were on their way to the courts in an auto-rickshaw. Haider was a founding member of the Malir
The Cable News Network (CNN) has declared Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan the most popular politician in Pakistan. During an interview with the cricketer-turned politician, the CNN said Imran Khan was an expected prime minister of Pakistan. The TV gave significance to Khan’s view on US drone campaign inside Pakistan. The dangerous US machines have been wreaking havoc in the Tribal Areas while Khan has been a staunch opponent of the attacks and drew large support from the Pakistanis.
President Asif Ali Zardari has said that despite limited resources Pakistan is helping in restructuring of Afghanistan He was addressing the 5th quadrilateral summit of Pakistan‚ Iran‚ Afghanistan and Tajikistan in Dushanbe‚ Tajikistan. He said this is time to work collectively to address the regional issues. He said Pakistan is also providing scholarships to Afghan students.President Asif Ali Zardari said that the Afghan war has affected the entire region.President Asif Ali Zardari told his counterparts from Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan that his country was committed to completing the Iran-Pakistan (IP) and Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline projects.
The Supreme Court commission on Monday resumed hearing of the memo scandal case as former ambassador Hussain Haqqani did not appear before the investigation body.
Head of the three-member commission, Justice Qazi Faiz Esa, expressed his anger over Haqqani’s absence.
“Why Haqqani has not appeared before the commission? Whom does Haqqani fear? We will provide security to him,” Justice Qazi asked the former ambassador’s lawyer, Zahid Bukhari, while hearing the scam case at Islamabad High Court building.
“I wonder that he is willing to come to London from United States but not to Pakistan. If so, he is then unsafe anywhere on the globe,” Justice Qazi observed, saying that “he is a Pakistani citizen and bound to follow the law and Constitution”.
On which, Bukhari said “my client is afraid of the security agencies which are in contact with Mansoor Ijaz.”
Deputy Attorney General also appeared before the commission, to which Justice Qazi questioned about security arrangements for Haqqani. “We had ordered to ensure the security for Haqqani. Was the order implemented or not?” he asked.
The DAG told the commission that arrangements were finalized, adding that the government was not informed of alleged threats received by the former ambassador over his arrival in Pakistan.
Haqqani on Saturday declined to appear before the Memogate body, submitting an application for recording of statement through video conferencing.
