Attorney General for Pakistan office on Friday clarified that AG Maulvi Anwar-ul-Haq appeared before a nine-member bench in the case of memo controversy in which Pakistan former ambassador Hussain Haqqani allegedly wrote memo to Mike Mullen, on the court notice and thus not represented the federation.
A press release issued here said that in some talk shows on various TV channels on Thursday evening and the newspapers of December 2, 2011 an impression was created that the federation was being represented in the constitutional petitions, filed by Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and others that were taken up by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on December 1, 2011.
The AG office stated that the cases were listed for preliminary hearing on Thursday. The notice was issued to the attorney general for Pakistan in terms of Order XXVII of Civil Procedure Code, 1908. The attorney general appeared on the notice and not to represent the federation. The proceedings of the court also bespeak for the said factual position.-PR