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Haqqani meets Grossman, leaves for Pakistan

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Pakistans Ambassador to US Husain Haqqani has left for Pakistan.

Hussain Haqqani was summoned to Islamabad by Prime Minister Yusaf Raza Gilani to explain his position regarding the controversial memo allegedly written to former US military chief Admiral Mike Mullen.Prior to his departure, Haqqani met US special representative to Pakistan and Afghanistan Marc Grossman.It is worth mentioning here that a Pakistani-born American business man, Mansoo Ijaz, in an opinion piece in UK s Financial Times on October 10, Ijaz wrote that a senior Pakistani diplomat telephoned him in May soon after bin Laden s death, urging him to deliver a message to the White House bypassing Pakistan s military and intelligence chiefs.The president feared a military takeover was imminent and needed an American fist on his army chief s desk to end any misguided notions of a coup -- and fast, he wrote.He said a memo was delivered to Mullen on May 10, offering that a new national security team would end relations between Pakistani intelligence and Afghan militants, namely the Taliban and its Haqqani faction.
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