Islamabad- Hearing the scandalous memogate issue, the Pakistan Supreme Court has accepted petition by former ambassador Husain Haqqani petition, requesting the court to review its December 30 order and issue a stay order against the judicial commission probing the case “until the petition is disposed of” the Dawn reported.
According to the reports, a nine-member Supreme Court bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, will take up the review petition the next week. The memogate scandal has created uproar in the country, making rift between civilian government and the powerful army.
Prominent lawyer and former president of Supreme Court Bar Association Asma Jehangir, the counsel for Haqqani, filed the application along with a separate application that proceedings of a three-judge judicial commission constituted on the Supreme Court order be stayed.
The review petition says that the Supreme Court has no authority to order any high court judge to form a commission and carry out investigation because a high court is an independent institution.
The petition said, “Pending disposal of the civil review petition, proceedings of the commission formed under the Supreme Court order may graciously be stayed.”
It said further, “The applicant will suffer irreparable harm if the commission reaches a conclusion while the petition is pending.”
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