'Memogate': Husain Haqqani reaches Islamabad

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'Memogate': Husain Haqqani reaches Islamabad

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Pakistan ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani reached Islamabad.

20 November,2011 02:58 am

Hussain Haqqani was summoned to Islamabad by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to explain his position regarding the controversial memo allegedly written to former US military chief Admiral Mike Mullen.It is worth mentioning here that a Pakistan-born American business man, Mansoo Ijaz, in an opinion piece in UK’s ‘Financial Times’ on October 10, 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 seeking Washington’s help to stop a potential coup by the Pakistan Army against civilian government in the wake of May 2 US raid that killed Osama bin Laden.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.