Tag: Haqqani

Nawaz asks SC to place Haqqani on ECL

A day after seeking the Supreme Court’s help in probing the memo scandal, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Thursday filed another application in...

Operation against Haqqani

The latest ‘Memogate’ controversy has surely made ambassador Hussain Haqqani quite popular as prior to this episode not many Pakistani were aware of his...

US lauds Haqqani

The United States on Wednesday praised the service of Pakistani ambassador Hussain Haqqani, ousted after being accused of urging the Americans to stop the...

Is the ‘memo’ controversy over?

Hussain Haqqani’s removal over his alleged involvement in the conspiratorial ‘memo’, which the author of Financial Times op-ed piece, Mansoor Ijaz, claims to have...

LHC moved for Haqqani’s lie detection test

An application was filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday seeking court orders to the government to conduct a poly-graphic lie detection...

IHC disposes of petition against Haqqani

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday disposed of ta petition seeking action against Hussain Haqqani, former Pakistani ambassador to the US, and Mansoor...

‘Haqqani cannot be held solely responsible’

Former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Wednesday that the entire blame of memo scandal could not be imposed on Hussain Haqqani and...

What’s in store?

Something big is always happening in Pakistan that invites the attention of the whole world. This gives enough fodder to the electronic and print...

Haqqani’s resignation is ‘internal issue’: US

The White House said Tuesday that the resignation of Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, was an "internal issue" for Pakistan but...

Haqqani’s resignation a victory for army

Pakistan’s envoy to Washington Husain Haqqani lost the battle with the country’s powerful military leadership to keep his job on Tuesday over allegations he...

‘Husain Haqqani’s resignation tip of the iceberg’

Defence analysts and politicians believe that the sacking of Husain Haqqani would not diffuse the tension between the civilian and military leadership, as the...

The rise and fall of Husain Haqqani

Born on July 1, 1956, Husain Haqqani was appointed Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani in April 2008. He...

Haqqani’s nemesis welcomes resignation

Reacting to Husain Haqqani’s decision to resign as Pakistan’s ambassador to Washington, Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, the central character in the ‘memogate’ scandal, said...

‘Mullen confident memo not sent by Zardari’

The Pentagon has said that retired chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen was confident that the memo delivered by Mansoor Ijaz was...

Govt mulling candidates to replace Haqqani

With Husain Haqqani finally resigning as Pakistan’s ambassador to Washington on Tuesday, the government has started to consider who will replace him, and along...

Haqqani walks the tightrope

Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani will formally appear before President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani today, with Chief...

Haqqani to brief political, military leadership today

Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani is expected to brief the country’s top political and security leadership on Tuesday. Haqqani, who is at the...