Husain Haqqani

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Husain Haqqani

Pakistani ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani offered to resign amid accusation of participating in a plot to cut down the military power in his country. The scandal broke when media reports came to the attention of the public, asserting that in May the president Asif Ali Zardari asked the Americans to help him hold on to power, as there were reports of a military coup following the discovery and execution of Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil.
The scandal was sparked last month, when a Pakistani businessman asserted that a Pakistani diplomat used him to make a plea on behalf of the president by the American authorities by delivering a secret memo into the hands of the American Admiral Michael Mullen, by then American top official in Afghanistan, and the man who accused bluntly the Pakistani intelligence of having cooperated with the Haqqani network in attacking the American embassy in September.
The businessman says that Zardari offered Americans a “new security team,” which would take the place of the military leadership in power, and demanded the Americans to help.
According to media reports in Pakistan, Haqqani played a key role in this arrangement, a claim he rejects as “smear campaign.” He added that no memo was drafted or handed to him and reminded that he has never been under suspicion of having committed something wrong, except for the innuendo in this case.
The scandal is expected to shake even more the frail balance existing now in Pakistan between the military power, represented by Army Chief Ashfaq Kayani, considered by many the most powerful man in the land, and the civilian authorities.
President Zardari has summoned Haqqani to Islamabad and is to make a decision on whether to approve his resignation or not. The presidential spokesperson said that the president had no implication in any back-channeled plan to undermine the military.
The scandal in Pakistan comes at a time when the relations between Pakistan and the United States are tense, as the war on Afghanistan is coming to an end, and the American troops are pulling out of the embattled country.
The first sign of mistrust appeared when the WikiLeaks on Afghanistan were published, as they contained data about the ties of some of the Pakistani officials with the insurgents operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The president Zardari toured the capitals of Europe and America to convince his partners that Pakistan was involved in the war on terror with the same commitment as always.
Then the case of bin Laden came, and the relations between the two countries became to freeze. The United States went as far as to cut off the funds for the Pakistani army, which triggered the response of the army, which softened security measures along the border with Afghanistan.
By the end of September Admiral Mullen dropped a real bomb on the already frozen ties between Pakistan and the US as he accused overtly the Pakistani Foreign Intelligence Service of having cooperated with the Haqqani network.
The tension raised to a point where the Pakistani people were expecting a very swift reaction of the United States. In an interview for a Pakistani television channel, the Afghan president Hamid Karzai was asked what would Afghanistan do if America went to war with Pakistan, prompting him to say that Afghanistan would stand with Pakistan.
The Afghani president was quick to explain what he meant by that, but the mere fact that the national television in Pakistan was approaching the theme this way illustrates the tension.
The tension escalated even further as US State Secretary Hillary Clinton demanded Pakistan to get more involved so that the insurgent movements be eliminated before the last American trooper leaves Afghanistan.
Clinton went as far as to make direct threats in case the Pakistani military decided to back down. Pakistan did participate in attacks against insurgents camped on Pakistani soil.

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