LAHORE - Former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt advised Shahid Afridi to concentrate on improving his batting and bowling skills to keep his place in the national side, rather than criticize the ex-administrator.Last week, Afridi said that during Butt's tenure Pakistan was hit by ...

ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice of Islamabad High Court Muhammad Anwar Khan Kasi Thursday appointed Ijaz Ahmed as Acting Registrar of the court.Ijaz Ahmed, currently posted as Additional Registrar (Judicial) IHC, had also served at the same position in 2011. Moreover, the Chief Justice IHC also appointed ...

ISLAMABAD – Ijazur Rehman of Islamabad became the crowned singles champion after beating Fazil Mania in the final of the 7th National Tenpin Bowling Championship here at Megazone Bowling club F/9 Park on Wednesday.Players from across the country contested in the event and show their talent ...

LAHORE  - Reacting to media reports stating that the 2011 World Cup semi final between India and Pakistan in Mohali could have been fixed, PCB chief Zaka Ashraf has asked as to why the then PCB chief Ijaz Butt did not launch investigation into the matter during his tenure.“I’ve ...

ISLAMABAD – On the recommendation of executive body of Federal Government College Teachers Association (FGCTA), Ijaz Ahmad Associate Professor in Physics of Islamabad Model College for Boys, F-10/4 has been appointed as Chief Election Commissioner of FGCTA.The office of the Chief election ...

Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, whose claims stirred the Memogate controversy, said Tuesday that the Supreme Court’s unveiling of the judicial Commission’s report had brought forth the “truth he had been speaking from the day the case started.” Talking to media ...

ISLAMABAD - JAVAID-UR-RAHMAN - The inquiry commission on the Abbottabad operation Friday held interactive session with Brig (r) Ijaz Shah, whereas the expected statement of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is still awaited.Referring to Gilani’s delayed statement, a senior member of the panel ...

Kashmiri leader Muhammad Yasin Malik appeared before the judicial commission probing the Memogate scandal on Monday as the commission resumed its proceedings.Malik, Chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), came to Islamabad to clear allegations made against him by Mansoor Ijaz. ...

Former Ambassador to Pakistan in United States, Hussain Haqqani on Wednesday submitted his written reply to the Supreme Court commission in the memo scandal case.In his statement, filed by his associate counsel Sajid Tanoli, the former ambassador denied most of the allegations leveled against him ...

ISLAMABAD - Former federal minister and PPP central leader Raja Pervez Ashraf has said that contradictions in Mansoor Ijaz’s statements had totally exposed the farce and elements, who agitated the ‘so-called’ memo case in a desperate bid to upset the political applecart before the ...

ISLAMABAD – The President House and the Pakistan Army spokesmen on Saturday denied any contact between President Asif Ali Zardari and Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on the night between May 1 and 2, 2011, when US aircraft violated Pakistani airspace, killing Osama bin Laden ...

ISLAMABAD - As the judicial commission, probing into the memogate resumed hearing on Thursday to kick-off cross-examination, the main character of the episode, Mansoor Ijaz, carried on dropping bomb shells and accused influential Pakistani and American officials of harassing him in connection with ...

ISLAMABAD – Mansoor Ijaz has said that he had prepared the first draft of the controversial memo himself, but he finalised and forwarded it to Americans with the consent of Husain Haqqani, who told him President Zardari has approved the step.As the judicial commission probing the scandal ...

ISLAMABAD - The central character of Memo scandal, Mansoor Ijaz, Wednesday recorded his explosive statement via video link from London before the judicial commission probing the matter, while the commission held the hearing in Islamabad. The commission head, Balochistan High Court Chief Justice ...

NEW YORK - The credibility of Mansoor Ijaz, the principal instigator of the memo scandal, suffered again with the surfacing of court documents that show a European Bank accusing him of running a one-man business operation and obtaining loans that he was later unable to pay back on time.Documents ...

ISLAMABAD – The memogate commission on Monday finalised preparations to depose Mansoor Ijaz, the main character of the controversy, via video link.The commission is set to resume hearing on February 22 with Ijaz joining them via video link from London to present documentary ...

ISLAMABAD - Calling Mansoor Ijaz, a Pakistani origin American, a liar and fraudulent person, a group of veteran Pakistani expatriates have demanded of the government on Sunday to ensure provision of all the rights, which a human being deserves, to former ambassador Hussain Haqqani."Mansoor Ijaz's ...

ISLAMABAD - Masoor Ijaz, the main figure of memorandum scam, has filed an application at the Supreme Court praying that his statement be recorded and forensic evidence be received from him outside Pakistan.Akram Sheikh, who filed the petition Saturday on behalf of Ijaz, stated that the judicial ...

Waqt News - After the refusal of Ijaz Mansoor to visit Pakistan, the memo commission can send a team to London or Zurich to record his statement and can even take testimony on video conference, constitutional experts said.Talking to Waqt News, Justice (retd) Saeeduz Zaman Siddique said it seems ...

ISLAMABAD - Attorney General Pakistan Anwarul Haq said on Monday that all arrangements had been made for the security of Mansoor Ijaz, “but in my opinion he does not want to come.” He said that an officer of the police had been deputed for the task but added that security to Ijaz would ...

LAHORE - Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khan Khosa has said that undue importance has been given to mamogate main character Mansoor Ijaz who has openly spoken against the confederation of Pakistan and its institutions. Talking to the reporters after a match of first Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto ...

LAHORE – Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday said that it seems as if it was some viceroy, not Mansoor Ijaz, coming to Pakistan, making it clear that government would not spend billions on his security.“Mansoor cannot be provided security and protocol of head of a ...

LONDON - Mansoor Ijaz has obtained visa from Pakistan High Commission in London, reported a private TV channel on Thursday.Mansoor Ijaz, the central character in memogate scandal, personally visited the office of Pakistan High Commission in London where he was issued the visa along with summons ...

NEW YORK - A former chief of Indian intelligence agency has claimed that Mansoor Ijaz has links with ISI and was working for it.“My guess is he may have been working for many agencies. But he was certainly working for the ISI. There is no doubt about it,” former R&AW chief A. ...

NEW YORK - Mansoor Ijaz, a Pakistani-American businessman who is the main figure in the “Memogate” scandal, told his American go-between General (retired) James Jones that there were three people who “prepared” the now-infamous memo, not just former Pakistani Ambassador to ...

The commission on Memogate wants Mansoor Ijaz’s presence before it while a few others are interested in his not being there. All sorts of delaying tactics and impediments are being created for him not to travel to Pakistan such as issuance of visa, not guaranteeing his safety and security ...

ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Monday said that PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif knows better who Mansoor Ijaz is.“If Nawaz wanted to take him to Raiwind as a guest, all security will be provided to him,” Malik taunted while talking to media persons at NADRA Headquarters after ...

Ijaz Butt had a damaging tenure for Pakistani cricket as PCB chief. However, his tenure came to end this year, and Zaka Ashraf took his place – who has so far displayed a settled and professional approach. Zaka Ashraf has since then, outlined a set of key strategic objectives, showed ...

NEW DELHI - Mansoor Ijaz, the billionaire businessman now at the heart of a scandal that is threatening to bring down Pakistans democratic government, had earlier approached Indias intelligence services with an offer to broker peace between New Delhi and jihadists linked to the Inter-Services ...

ISLAMABAD - Chief of Hizbul Mujahideen (HuM) Syed Salahuddin revealed that Mansoor Ijaz, who was behind the alleged memo, tried to convince him to continue ceasefire in Held Kashmir. He told BBC Urdu that Ijaz, backed by the US, met him twice in 2000 in Islamabad and Muzaffarabad immediately after ...