Tag: Hussain Haqqani
The game changer
Just as the Peoples Party had completed a stunning transformation from its long-running anti-establishment persona to the one seen as a defender of the...
Haqqani submits statement to Abbottabad commission
Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani on Monday submitted his written reply to the Abbottabad commission.
After the statement’s submission, the commission...
SC receives Ijaz’s reply in memo scandal
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday received Mansoor Ijaz’s reply in the secret memo scandal case.
Ijaz accused former Pakistan ambassador to US Hussain...
Dos and don’ts
Our envoy in Washington
“Our country! …may she always be right; but right or wrong, our country!” is how an American naval officer Stephen Decatur...
Tough sledding ahead
Of tenuous ties and troubled times
Although Pakistan’s envoy to Washington, Hussain Haqqani’s has been shown the door, the controversy generated by the Memogate refuses...
The tell-tale signs
As the end nears, there are symptoms of cracking up
With the passage of time, the trail of the notorious memo is being traced to...
To the SC now
The memo saga isn’t over yet
Despite Hussain Haqqani’s resignation and replacement by a new ambassador, the issue of Mansoor Ijaz’s memo continues to reverberate....
Truth must out
Memogate exposes a royal mess within
The unsigned confidential memo delivered to top American military leader Admiral Mike Mullen allegedly at the behest of President...
From whom to whom?
Of disputed authors and even more disputed missives
The case of Hussain Haqqani is curious. He must be the world’s first diplomat who has been...
In Hussain Haqqani’s defence
It is very unfair of the government of Pakistan to expect an individual who has voluntarily adopted another country for any immigration status to...
LHC moved for placement of Haqqani name in ECL
Lahore High Court (LHC) has been moved in connection with the placement of the name of Ambassador to US Hussain Haqqani in the exit...
Isfahani announces legal action in memo case
Defending her husband, MNA Farahnaz Isfahani, wife of Ambassador Husain Haqqani who is facing a controversy over a secret memo sent to US administration,...
I was just the typist, says Mansoor Ijaz
Mansoor Ijaz once again accused Hussain Haqqani of lying despite all facts of the Memogate scandal being exposed. Speaking to an Indian TV...
150 MPs received threats on SMS
About 150 lawmakers have received anonymous threatening messages, asking them to resign from their seats, otherwise they would be killed, Interior Affairs Minister Rehman...
In the dock
The Mansoor Ijaz memo has become the proverbial albatross around a faltering and weakened government’s neck that is trying desperately to escape its monumental...
Off with his head?
It is clear they want his scalp. The military wasn’t ever quite comfortable with Hussain Haqqani. And this whole memo business appears to be...
Haqqani “summoned” to Islamabad for briefing
Pakistani ambassador in Washington, Husain Haqqani, has been summoned to Islamabad to brief the top leadership about Pakistan-US relations.
Well-placed sources, quoted by a private...