Mustafa Qadri » accountability http://mustafaqadri.net/wp Freelance Journalist Tue, 24 May 2011 09:32:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Gilani trying to weaken Zardari? http://mustafaqadri.net/wp/blog/gilani-trying-to-weaken-zardari/ http://mustafaqadri.net/wp/blog/gilani-trying-to-weaken-zardari/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:28:13 +0000 mustafa http://mustafaqadri.net/wp/?p=447 Pakistan’s prime minister said in an interview he would seek to tip the balance of power back toward parliament and away from embattled President Asif Ali Zardari, a move that could help restore democratic checks and balances in the turbulent nation and possibly help bring the opposition into the ruling coalition.

]]> http://mustafaqadri.net/wp/blog/gilani-trying-to-weaken-zardari/feed/ 0 UK Govt ordered to release Iraq minutes http://mustafaqadri.net/wp/blog/uk-govt-ordered-to-release-iraq-minutes/ http://mustafaqadri.net/wp/blog/uk-govt-ordered-to-release-iraq-minutes/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:31:42 +0000 mustafa http://mustafaqadri.net/wp/?p=357 But in its ruling, the Tribunal said: “We have decided that the public interest in maintaining the confidentiality of the formal minutes of two Cabinet meetings at which ministers decided to commit forces to military action in Iraq did not… outweigh the public interest in disclosure.”

The Tribunal said its decision to rule in such an “exceptional case” had been “difficult” and carried by a majority rather than unanimously.

Campaigners have been keen to learn exactly what was discussed at the two meetings, amid claims that legal advice given by Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General, was not shared with the entire Cabinet.

He is thought to have changed his mind over the legality of the proposed war during the course of the month.

(Thanks Yasmine)

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