Parliamentary panel can�t summon Mansoor Ijaz: Akram Shaikh

ISLAMABAD: Memogate scandal’s protagonist, Mansoor Ijaz’s counsel Akram Shaikh Saturday said that parliamentary committee was not authorized to summon his client, Geo News reported.

This was how he pled, while giving the committee a reason for his client’s opting against producing himself before the parliamentary panel.

Talking to Geo News, he said that the committee’s powers were no different from a civil court, which could not send a subpoena to a foreigner binding him to appear before the court as a witness when he was not willing to summit to the order.

Having said that, he also told Geo News that, according to Supreme Court order, the commission --formed to probe the ‘memogate’ scandal-- and the parliamentary body could exchange any piece of record if they wanted to.