Washington, Feb. 6 (TNS): Former ambassador of Pakistan to the United States Hussain Haqqani has termed Memogate case, being reopened, as a ‘political gimmick’ on part of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
“I will not come to Pakistan on the insistence of babay rehmatay [wise, old man],” the former ambassador was quoted as saying.
In a statement issued recently, Haqqani remarked that after Iftikhar Chaudhry, four top SC judges had come and gone, and none of them had taken up the memogate reference.
“These babay rehmatay have no authority [compared to Pakistan] in the rest of the world,” Haqqani stated.
Questioning the authority of a three-member SC bench which will reportedly reopen the memogate case, Haqqani noted that a nine-member top court bench had been formed when the case was brought to trial in 2009.
“Why is a three member bench hearing the case now?” he asked.
“It has been six years since a petition to review legal anomalies in the memogate reference has been pending in the SC, will the top court ever hold a hearing in that case?” he added further.
The former ambassador also stressed that in the 2009 court decision on the matter, judges had referenced 2003 laws in their ruling, which had been suspended at the time.
