Eurasia Review: Hussain Haqqani: A Diplomat of Pakistan?

April 5: Eurasia Review report by Atta Rasool Malik states that Hussain Haqqani, Pakistan’s former diplomat to the US from April 2008 to November 2011, has appeared to be more a loyalist to the US and less a stalwart to Pakistan in recent years. In Pakistan diplomatic corps he is better known as ‘Washington’s ambassador to Pakistan.’ He particularly played a major part in the Memogate scandal, asking US assistance against the Pakistan military in May 2012 and was exposed by Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency (ISI). However, the recent evidence of Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz has brought the former diplomat to the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Now the Chief Justice of Pakistan is pressing the executive to extradite the man from abroad so as to finalize and decide the long-awaited infamous security issue of Pakistan.
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