It is very unfair of the government of Pakistan to expect an individual who has voluntarily adopted another country for any immigration status to represent Pakistan as its ambassador and have undivided loyalty to Pakistan. The problem is with those who hold constitutional offices and give such sensitive assignments to those who are liable not to deliver when the going goes bad. It is just like pushing an individual into a lion’s den and then expect him to survive. The fault lies with those who appointed Hussain Haqqani and not with him.
A man works all his life to have a family, build a home and other assets to facilitate his lifetime and then leave these assets for inheritance by his children. National patriotism to your motherland is also related to the fact that your parents, grandparents, siblings, wife, children and friends live in that country and also that all your assets earned through hard work are located there. When a man moves out of his country of birth where he has a good financial standing and voluntarily adopts residential status, immigration or nationality, he breaks the bond that links him with his native country. The only exceptions are those who have no livelihood and are forced by circumstances to live in foreign countries to feed their families living in Pakistan.
Even if an individual has not taken nationality of his newly adopted country, the fact that all his assets, or majority of them are located in another country, makes him susceptible to succumb to pressure of the place where his possessions exist and his family resides. This is basic human nature. It takes a lot of character for a man to resist this temptation. There are very few men, with character and commitment to a country to forgo his assets.
For those who have not read the oath that every citizen has to take when he becomes a US or any other national please just Google it and check it out. The US oath of nationality reads as follows:-“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform non-combatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.”
MALIK TARIQ ALI
Lahore
It is a crime in USA if somebody violates his oath, including the one for nationality. No public office holder, whether elected or part of paid establishment, should be allowed to aspire for, or hold a foreign immigration status. How many of our Ambassadors, career diplomats, generals, bureaucrats, politicians have acquired a foreign or their dependent children sought such a status, while they were holding such offices. Unfortunately there are quite a lot. The former President of Pakistan Pervaiz Musharraf was the chief of army, yet all his children were US nationals, alongwith his parents. Amongst his siblings he alone held a Pak nationality, which explains the large assets he holds outside Pakistan. This is a CONFLICT OF INTEREST.
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