Husain Haqqani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Pakistani diplomat
Date of Birth: 01-Jul-1956
Place of Birth: Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Profession: diplomat
Nationality: Pakistan
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
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About Husain Haqqani
- Husain Haqqani (?????? ??????; born 1 July 1956, alternately spelled Hussain Haqqani) is a Pakistani journalist, academic, political activist and former ambassador of Pakistan to Sri Lanka and the United States. Haqqani has written two books on Pakistan: Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military, and Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding.
- His analysis has appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy.
- He has also been a speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
- Haqqani is currently a Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C.
- and co-editor of Hudson's signature journal Current Trends in Islamist Ideology.Haqqani worked as a journalist from 1980 to 1988, and then as political adviser for Nawaz Sharif and later as a spokesperson for Benazir Bhutto.
- From 1992 to 1993 he was ambassador to Sri Lanka.
- In 1999, he was exiled following criticisms against the government of then-President Pervez Musharraf.
- From 2004 to 2008 he taught international relations at Boston University.
- He was appointed as Pakistan's ambassador in April 2008, but his tenure ended after the Memogate incident, when the claim was made that he had been insufficiently protective of Pakistan's interests.
- A judicial commission was set up by the Supreme Court of Pakistan to probe the allegations against him.
- According to commission's report which was issued in June 2012, Haqqani was declared guilty of authoring a memo which called for direct US intervention into Pakistan, though Pakistan's Supreme Court noted that the commission was only expressing an opinion.
- In February 2019, Pakistan's Chief Justice suggested the entire Memogate affair was a waste of time, saying that "Pakistan was not so fragile a country that it could be rattled by the writing of a memo."
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