Mansoor Ijaz In Pakistan

• Chief judge in Pervez Musharraf treason trial quits bench

  In a severe blow to the high-profile treason case against Pervez Musharraf, the chief judge conducting the trial today recused himself from the hearing after repeatedly being accused of bias against the former Pakistani military dictator.

• No coup attempt in Pak after Osama raid: Ex ISI chief Shuja Pasha

  Pakistan's powerful military did not plan a coup after the US raid in Abottabad that killed al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in May last year, former ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha has said.

• 'Bad Boys' was code for army, ISI chiefs: Mansoor Ijaz testimony

  Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz claims Pakistan's former envoy Husain Haqqani had acted on the directions of senior government leaders and had devised "bad boys" as code words for army and ISI chiefs. Ijaz made the remarks on Thursday, the second day of his deposition via videoconferencing from London before a Pakistani judicial commiss...

• Pakistan commission records Mansoor Ijaz testimony from London

  A commission probing the memo scandal here on Wednesday began recording the testimony of Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, the key figure in the controversy, through video-conference from London. Commission secretary Raja Jawad Abbas and counsel of Husain Haqqani, former Pakistani envoy to the US, and Mansor Ijaz, among others, attended ...

• Pak Supreme Court allows Haqqani to travel abroad

  Pakistan's former envoy to the US Husain Haqqani was on Monday permitted to travel abroad by the Supreme Court, which is probing a memo sent to Washington saying President Asif Ali Zardari had feared a military takeover in the wake of Osama bin Laden's killing last year.

• Pakistan court widens role, stirring fears

  Once they were heroes, cloaked justices at the vanguard of a powerful revolt against military rule in Pakistan, buoyed by pugnacious lawyers and an adoring public. But now Pakistan's Supreme Court is waging a campaign of judicial activism that has pitted it against an elected civilian government, in a legal fight that many Pakistanis fear could dam...

• 'Memogate man' Mansoor Ijaz refuses to travel to Pakistan

  Fearing arrest, Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, the central figure in the memo scandal, today said he would not visit Islamabad to depose before a judicial panel probing the matter and wants his testimony to be recorded either in London or Zurich.

• Full transcript: Mansoor Ijaz speaks to NDTV on Pak Memogate controversy

  As the Memogate scandal continues to create ripples in the Pakistani establishment, all eyes now are centred on US-based Pakistani businessman Mansoor Ijaz - better known as the 'Memogate man'. He has finally secured a Pakistan visa to travel to the country to depose before a judicial commission that is probing the political scandal. NDTV's Barkha ...

• Mansoor Ijaz issued visa to Pakistan

  Controversial Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, who is at the centre of the memogate scandal, was on Thursday issued one-year multiple entry visa for Pakistan.

• BlackBerry refuses to hand Memogate data to Pakistan: Report

  BlackBerry maker, Research in Motion (RIM), has said that it will not release data regarding a memo that said that President Asif Ali Zardari had feared a military coup last year, it was reported here.

• Memogate: Mansoor Ijaz delays return to Pak, seeks time till 25th

  Businessman Mansoor Ijaz, who plays a starring role in Pakistan's political scandal Memogate, has delayed his trip home. Mr Ijaz's lawyers say he is being threatened. He has applied for a visa in Switzerland. He will not be in Pakistan before January 25, where he is expected to testify in the Supreme Court.

• Pak gearing up for crucial Monday; Zardari, Gilani's fate to be decided tomorrow

  The next 24 hours are going to be crucial in deciding what happens next in the volatile face-off between Pakistan's elected government and the military.

• Pakistan's Memogate: Never met Ijaz, says Mullen

  Amid a controversy over a secret memo sent to the then US military chief to prevent a possible military coup in Pakistan, the spokesperson of Admiral Mike Mullen said that the former top general never met the Pak-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz and does not know him.

• 'Memogate': Obama's ex-advisor James Jones says he delivered secret memo to Mullen

  Former US National Security Advisor James Jones has said that he was the intermediary who delivered to former military chief Admiral Mike Mullen a secret memorandum that businessman Mansoor Ijaz purportedly drafted on behalf of the Pakistan government. Jones confirmed to the Pakistani media that he received the memo from the Pakistani-American busi...