Islamabad:
Pakistan ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani, has submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. In a post on micro-blogging site Twitter, Mr Haqqani wrote, "I have requested PM Gilani to accept my resignation as Pakistan Ambassador to US.
"I have much to contribute to building a new Pakistan free of bigotry & intolerance. Will focus energies on that," he further tweeted.
Mr Haqqani is embroiled in controversy over a secret memo, allegedly written by Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari asking for US intervention in his country to prevent a military takeover following the death of Osama bin Laden in an American military raid in May this year.
Mr Haqqani has denied his involvement in the memo. The issue was first brought to light in an editorial in the Financial Times by Pakistan-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz. Mr Ijaz has claimed he drafted the memo on Haqqani's instructions and delivered it through former US National Security Advisor Jim Jones to the then American military chief Admiral Mike Mullen in May. (Read: Never met Ijaz, says Mullen)
Speaking exclusively to NDTV, Mr Ijaz said that Mr Haqqani reached out to him saying he is a "plausibly deniable channel" for them. "Credibility is in the eye of the beholder. I was like a typist," Mr Ijaz said. (Full text of Mansoor Ijaz's interview to NDTV)
Insisting that he had played no role in drafting the memo, Haqqani said: "His (Ijaz's) entire harangue is aimed at pitting the civil and military administrations against each other and sowing the seeds of discord." (Read)
Haqqani told a Pakistan daily today that he had worked hard to cultivate better Pakistan-US relations and was prepared to undergo any investigation and face any charges in connection with the memo.
Haqqani said he was prepared to sue Ijaz in a court of law.
He said he had not been keen to serve in the past and neither did he want to do so today.
"I have much to contribute to building a new Pakistan free of bigotry & intolerance. Will focus energies on that," he further tweeted.
Mr Haqqani is embroiled in controversy over a secret memo, allegedly written by Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari asking for US intervention in his country to prevent a military takeover following the death of Osama bin Laden in an American military raid in May this year.
Mr Haqqani has denied his involvement in the memo. The issue was first brought to light in an editorial in the Financial Times by Pakistan-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz. Mr Ijaz has claimed he drafted the memo on Haqqani's instructions and delivered it through former US National Security Advisor Jim Jones to the then American military chief Admiral Mike Mullen in May. (Read: Never met Ijaz, says Mullen)
Speaking exclusively to NDTV, Mr Ijaz said that Mr Haqqani reached out to him saying he is a "plausibly deniable channel" for them. "Credibility is in the eye of the beholder. I was like a typist," Mr Ijaz said. (Full text of Mansoor Ijaz's interview to NDTV)
Insisting that he had played no role in drafting the memo, Haqqani said: "His (Ijaz's) entire harangue is aimed at pitting the civil and military administrations against each other and sowing the seeds of discord." (Read)
Haqqani told a Pakistan daily today that he had worked hard to cultivate better Pakistan-US relations and was prepared to undergo any investigation and face any charges in connection with the memo.
Haqqani said he was prepared to sue Ijaz in a court of law.
He said he had not been keen to serve in the past and neither did he want to do so today.
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