ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday constituted a nine-member larger bench led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to hear the controversial memo case, DawnNews reported.

The next hearing on the case would take place on Oct 22.

The court also issued notices to all those party in the case, including Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif and Attorney General Irfan Qadir.

A nine-judge bench, headed by Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan, had earlier been hearing the case on the controversy after the Memo Commission held that Haqqani was the architect of the memo sent to former US military chief Admiral Mike Mullen seeking US intervention to avert a possible overthrow of the government by the military.

During the last July 12 hearing of the case, the Supreme Court had given the counsel three days’ time to file Haqqani’s request for exemption from court appearances, which was filed on July 17.