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The daily Dawn reported Nov 23 that Rehman,
Pakistan Peoples Party member of the National
Assembly, was appointed Pakistan's envoy to the
US.
Haqqani, a strategist and intellectual, submitted
his resignation Nov 22 to Prime Minister Yousuf
Raza Gilani over the alleged secret memo that
was sent to Washington.
Pakistani businessman Mansoor Ijaz last month
alleged that a senior Pakistani diplomat asked
for help in getting a message from Zardari to
then chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff,
Admiral Mike Mullen.
Ijaz alleged that Zardari feared a military takeover
following the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden
in his hideout in Pakistan town of Abbottabad
May 2. The Pakistani army has not eplained how
Osama lived under the nose of the military establishment
in the garrison town but instead protested the
US raid claiming violation of Pakistan's sovereignty.
The US had a declared policy to kill or capture
the 9/11 terrorist for masterminding the attacks
by hijacking civilian aircraft and killing thousands
by crashing them into buildings in 2001.
The Pakistan Army and the Inter-Services Intelligence
(ISI) were reportedly also upset with Haqqani
over issuance of visas to Americans without "prior
scrutiny" by the Pakistani security agencies.
Rehman, Pakistan's information and broadcasting
minister, resigned from her cabinet post in 2009
due to differences over the government's media
policy.
(IANS)
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