ISLAMABAD: Former Director-General of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Tariq Khosa on Saturday refused to head a one-man commission set up by the Supreme Court to probe into the memo scandal.
As per details, the Supreme Court has ordered the Registrar of the Court to address a letter on behalf of the Court to Tariq Khosa to obtain his consent whether he agrees to perform this National duty; and on receipt of his consent, the matter should be handed over to him.
According to sources, Khosa has refused to head the commission and has informed the Registrar.
It is pertinent to mention here that the Court had also announced in its verdict, in case Tariq Khosa declines to act as the Commission, he may inform the Registrar who shall place the matter in Chambers for passing of appropriate order for taking up the matter either in the Court or holding proceedings in the Chambers.
Khosa, who has also served as inspector general of Balochistan police, is a brother of Justice Asif Saeed Khosa and Punjab Chief Secretary Nasir Khosa.
It is worth mentioning here that earlier a government team headed by former Federal Law Minister Babar Awan had questioned Khosa’s nomination at a press conference by saying that he was a brother of the Punjab chief secretary and a judge of the Supreme Court.
Expressing distrust over SC-nominated Khosa, Babar asserted that Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) didn’t expect any justice from a person like Tariq Khosa. “Everyone knows Khosa whose one brother is a sitting supreme court judge and a relative to Justice Nasim Hassan Shah, former Chief Justice of Pakistan who had endorsed the hanging of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.”
Meantime, Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khosa also took to field yesterday, when he said they will only act upon the recommendations of the ‘supreme body’ – the Parliamentary Committee on National Security.
Latif Khosa said that his party would launch a “movement to save the federation” – Wafaq Bachao Tehreek – in protest against the apex court for ‘overlooking’ the government’s decision that a parliamentary committee would investigate the memogate issue.
But those who worked with Khosa called him an ‘upright’ man and a ‘clean’ government officer.
The scandal erupted when US citizen of Pakistani origin, Mansoor Ijaz, accused Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, of masterminding an alleged memo sent to a senior US military official asking for help to rein in the Pakistani military after the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad in May.
However, Haqqani repeatedly denied the allegation and resigned from his position as an ambassador in the wake of the controversy.
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