Click to play videoNew Delhi: Pakistan's envoy to the US Husain Haqqani quit on Tuesday over the memogate controversy. A state-run network said Haqqani acted on Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's orders, but other sections of the media claim that the Army wanted him out. The question is whether Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari escape scrutiny.
When Pakistan's generals want somebody out, marching orders don't take long in coming. And so, it was with Husain Haqqani, who, 48 hours after returning to Islamabad he tweeted his decision to quit.
"I have requested (Prime Minister) Gilani to accept my resignation as Pakistan Ambassador to US. I have much to contribute to building a new Pakistan free of bigotry (and) intolerance. Will focus energies on that," he tweeted.
State-run PTV said Gilani requested Haqqani to leave in the interest of a transparent investigation into the memogate scandal. The scandal was revealed by a businessman of Pakistani origin Mansoor Ijaz, who claimed he had drafted a letter dictated by Haqqani which sought US intervention in the event of an army coup.
The statement from the Pakistan Prime Minister's office said, "As a result of the controversy generated by the alleged memo which had been drafted, formulated and further admitted to have been received by authority in USA, it has become necessary in national interest to formally arrive at the actual and true facts."
But as sections of the local media reported, the only true facts were that the army wanted Haqqani out. He was too close to Washington and too close to President Zardari.
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