SC to resume memogate case hearing today

A nine-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will hear constitutional petition regarding alleged memo today.Earlier, the SC had ordered President, PM, COAS, ISI chief, Mansoor Ijaz, Hussain Haqqani and petitioner PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif to submit its reply regarding the petition.In the affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court, COAS Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has said that the news regarding the memo-gate are correct and evidence is available of the contacts made in the context of the conspiracy. The COAS also wrote that the memo issue has dented national security and lowered the morale of the armed forces.While, the government in its reply to the Supreme Court (SC) in memo case has confessed that it has no control over Army and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and prayed that it should not be made answerable in regard to statements of Husain Haqqani and Mansor Ijaz.The government through Defence Ministry has sent this written confession to the Supreme Court in which it is first time admitted that the political rulers have no control over Pakistan Army and ISI operations and that is why the government is not in a position to submit any explanation of reply on their behalf.