Ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani of Pakistan
Trends in Islamist Thought' published from Washington DC.
At the time of his appointment as ambassador on April 3, 2008, Haqqani was viewed as a respected figure on the world stage, coming to the post well versed in the ways of diplomacy and Washington.
Prior to his appointment, Haqqani had been critical of the Musharraf regime and past US.
As ambassador, Haqqani has charted a course of increasing predictability in US.
Haqqani has been a campaign worker, senior adviser, ambassador, spokesperson and scholar.
From 2004-08, Haqqani has been an associate professor for international relations at Boston University.
Haqqani was born in Karachi and was raised in a conservative religious family in Malir, a relatively poor suburb of Karachi.
Haqqani has three daughters and one son.
Ambassador Haqqani is currently on a leave of absence from Boston University.
Haqqani was born in Karachi on July 1, 1956 and was raised in Malir, a relatively poor Karachi suburb.
Since 1988 Haqqani has contributed op-ed columns and articles to such publications as The Wall Street Journal; The New York Times; The Boston Globe; the London-based Financial Times; The International Herald Tribune; The South China Morning Post; The Indian Express; Foreign Policy; The Hindu; Toronto Globe and Mail; The Ottawa Citizen; Arab News; Gulf News and Le Monde.
When America and the West abandon their own values, Haqqani has argued, it helps to rally Islamic extremists trying to sell the idea of a clash of civilizations.
Owen Bennett-Jones of the BBC, author of Pakistan: The Eye Of The Storm, said that Haqqani had produced a “provocative and controversial history,” and commented that the book should be required reading for students of Pakistani history.
In addition to ABC, Haqqani has regularly appeared as a commentator on BBC, C-Span, CNN, NBC, Fox News and many others.
He told the Lost Angeles Times that some people in Pakistan do ask “snidely” whether Haqqani is “Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, or the US.
As Haqqani came to Washington, his wife was serving both as a member of Pakistan’s parliament and a spokeswoman for President Asif Ali Zardari’s Pakistan People’s Party.
Husain Haqqani is the current Pakistani ambassador to the United States.
Haqqani is an expert in Islam, South Asia, and Pakistan.
at Boston University and former Director of the Center for International Relations.
Haqqani is now Pakistan's ambassador to the United States.
While I appreciate the fact that Hussein Haqqani is being candid about the growth of the Muslim Brotherhood, and its politicization of Islam's organizational structures, what is indeed amusing about this article, he seems to think this started only in 1925.
Haqqani has written a dispassionate analysis on South Asian Jihadi groups and acknowledges that Pakistan has sponsored these groups.
Husain Haqqani is presently on leave serving as Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States.
HusainHaqqani is the director of the Center for International Relations and an associate professor at Boston University, as well as a fellow at Hudson Institute.
Haqqani is author of Pakistan Between Mosque and Military and co-editor, with Hillel Fradkin and Eric Brown, of Hudson Institute's report Current Trends in Islamist Ideology.
Husain Haqqani is the Director of the Center for International Relations and Associate Professor of International Relations, at Boston University.
Haqqani has also been a guest speaker at Zionist outfits, such as the Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs (JINSA), and at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's policy conference in March of 2007.
Haqqani is co-founder with Stephen Schwartz (a good friend of Daniel Pipes), of the Institute of Islamic Progress and Peace (IIPP), an organization set up a couple of years ago "to fight Islamic extremism.
Speaking in a meeting organized by the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland Haqqani said that Muslims throughouit the world are suffering from "judaphobia" and that the Saudis are drilling this into them.
the core issue, according to Haqqani is Muslim backwardness.
Husain Haqqani is also pals with that other neo-con Tarek Fatah.
In fact, I was surprised to discover that Haqqani has written the Afterword in Tarek Fatah's new book, Chasing Mirage, in which Fatah questions the legality of the Khulafa-e-Rashidun and (astaghfirullah) suggested that Hazrat Abu-Bakr's state was not an Islamic state, but the first Arab state.
Husain Haqqani knows exactly how to operate in the American context.
Husain Haqqani has been at Boston University that appetizing thing, a Professor of International Relations.
So to say Husain Haqqani is working hard to PERSUADE the Americans is to speak some what euphemistically.
Director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University, Husain Haqqani is associate researcher at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
7 : Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, Hussain Haqqani has ruled out a cooling of ties between Islamabad and Washington in the wake of the recent attacks by international forces in Pakistan’s tribal regions, saying bilateral ties are resilient and would withstand the difficulties coming in the way.
Addressing the Carnegie Endowment for Peace here, Haqqani said that Pakistan expects the United States to persuade its NATO allies and Afghanistan to look upon it as a partner.
Washington, Sept 6 : Pakistan Ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani has said that Angoor Adda like actions by US forces in Pakistani territory would not be of any help to the war against terror, instead it would spark wrath and fury among the people.
Washington, Aug 23 : Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani has said that his country expected more cooperation from the other war-on-terror stakeholders on its western border (read Afghanistan) in the post-Musharraf phase.
Husain Haqqani has a flawed reputation in Pakistan, not only for his notoriously self-advancing political flip-flops, but also for his grubby repute as the originating godfather of corrupt - lifafa - journalism.
Haqqani is clearly a controversial figure in Pakistan and all controversial figures have flawed reputations.
Haqqani was the founder of corrupt journalism in Pakistan, that is probably a reference to rumors floated against him by the ISI and Mr.
It is nice to see that Mr Husain Haqqani has found a fan club during his short stint in the US - a feat he was incapable of during the long years that he spent climbing the opportunity ladder in Pakistan politics.
I can go on endlessly about the damage Mr Haqqani has done to liberal and democratic values in Pakistan.
Haqqani has written a good book on Pakistan and I have read his writings going back to 1996 (in The Friday Times) and all of them make eminent sense.
If Mr Haqqani is in his late forties or early fifties, as he seems, his days in student politics were probably 25 years ago.
Haqqani was the fixer for caretaker Jatoi, was then loaned out to Nawaz Sharif, while Benazir Bhutto eyed him greedily with outspoken recognition of his brilliance.
But who knows? Mosque versus India: The substance we have in the book after the lucky personal sloughing of Husain Haqqani is not bad at all.
Even though a backward look might persuade you to think that he was putting it on when doing PR for dishonourable causes, you cannot deny the quality of the peeling off Haqqani has achieved.
Haqqani says the umbilical joining all courtiers of the US was hatred of India, perhaps including Musharraf, who should then stand with first president of Pakistan Iskander Mirza and second president Ayub Khan in his fear and loathing of religion.
Husain Haqqani has written a good book and has given final proof in it of his capacity that no ruler was interested in utilising.
And I praised the book in my blog while at the same time briefly reminding my readers that Haqqani has a flawed reputation in Pakistan, not only for his notoriously self-advancing political flip-flops, but also for his grubby repute as the originating godfather of corrupt - lifafa journalism.
Undoubtedly Husain Haqqani is an extremely talented and intelligent man, I just wished he had used his skills to uphold democracy rather than to try and destroy free press and actively assist the forces of subterfuge and coercion.
If only Mr Haqqani came clean about his past and offerred some sort of contrition, democrats would happily forgive and forget his past.
And if Mr Haqqani is the unreconstructed opportunist that Onlooker suggests he is, he should have gladly accepted.
Haqqani is familiar with the name of each and every one of them.
And so I will reiterate once again: my criticism of Husain Haqqani is not personal in nature and I have never met the man nor has he ever harmed me in any way.
If you recall it all began when you took umbrage at blog saying Husain Haqqani has a flawed reputation in Pakistan, not only for his notoriously self-advancing political flip-flops, but also for his grubby repute as the originating godfather of corrupt - lifafa - journalism.
Then a brief Google search revealed that Professor/Ambassador Husain Haqqani is currently working at the Department of International Relations at Boston University.
Husain Haqqani Husain Haqqani was a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.
scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Husain Haqqani has taken over as Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States in Washington, DC.
A trusted advisor of former Pakistani Prime Minsiter, Ms Benazir Bhutto, Ambassador Haqqani is known as a Professor at Boston University and former Director of the Center for International Relations.
Haqqani has contributed to numerous international publications, including The Wall Street Journal , The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Foreign Policy, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic and The Financial Times.
Pakistani Ambassador Husain Haqqani is wondering why foreign governments can bail out banks in their own countries but ignore the economic meltdown in his South.
of International Relations at Boston University.
Husain Haqqani has a wide range of experience as a journalist, diplomat, and advisor to three Pakistani Prime Ministers.
Prior to marrying Farahnaz Ispahani, Hussain Haqqani was married to Naheed Khan’s sister.
A detailed CV of Husaain Haqqani is at the end to corroborate the comment.
Right from this student politics with the Jamaats student wing, the dreaded Islami Jamiat-e-Tulaba, at Karachi University there is much that Mr Haqqani is answerable for.
Mr Haqqani was instrumental in bringing down an elected government - through the good offices of the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) - byturning the Punjab against the Centre.
It is a known fact that for the first two years of General Musharrafs dictatorship, Mr Haqqani was happily running a lucrative consultancy with major government departments as his clients.
If Abdul is so sure of his sources he must work for ISI.
Hussain Haqqani is a CIA agent and he will do anything to get a senior position in any part of the world and for that, if he has to sell his own mother, he will do that also.
well, i think that haqqani is the modern days jew of Malta.
Husain Haqqani discusses his country's views on the fight against international terrorism.
Husain Haqqani is the Pakistan Ambassador to the United States.
Husain Haqqani was previously a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.
Ambassador Haqqani expressed appreciation for the support and encouragement extended by the United States as Pakistan makes a difficult transition to democracy.
Ambassador Haqqani said that during his tenure as Ambassador of Pakistan, he will work tirelessly to building a new, more mature, long-term partnership between Pakistan and the United States and will promote the bonds of friendship and cooperation between the two peoples.
Haqqani has the distinction for being a columnist not only for The Nation newspaper from Lahore but he is also a regular writer for the Indian Express.
Haqqani is now also a familiar figure on American TV, as he has recently appeared to comment on Pakistan, Afghanistan and extremism on CNN, NBC and ABC news.
Haqqani said that Pakistan today collects rent due to its strategic location and that Pakistan is doing this (rent collection) for the third time.