KOHAT – Three Pakistanis have lodged FIRs against Pakistan’s formerambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani for his anti-Pakistan and anti-armyremarks in his speeches, articles and books in Kohat.
Complainants – Shamsul Haq, Mohammad Asghar, and Momin – registered thecases at two police stations of Cantonment and Bilitang in Kohat, againstthe ex-envoy, Haqqani, who had served as Pakistan’s ambassador to the USfrom Apr 2008 to Nov 2011 before being ousted in the purview of memogatescandal.
One of the complainants, Asghar in the FIR said that Haqqani was amastermind of Memogate scandal and served the interest of the US during histenure as ambassador as he issued visas to agents of CIA and India.
He also accused the former ambassador of defaming Pakistan and bringirreparable damages to the country through his books and called him atraitor.
The police have registered the cases against Haqqani under section 120B(hatching a criminal conspiracy) and 121A (waging a war against Pakistan).
After the case, Haqqani will have to surrender to the Pakistani police orhe will be declared an absconder in the case of hate speeches.
In March 2017, the former ambassador in his published in The WashingtonPost admitted that he helped the US to station a large number of CIAoperatives in Pakistan with the authorization of the then civiliangovernment.
‘Among the security establishment’s grievances against me was the chargethat I had facilitated the presence of large numbers of CIA operatives whohelped track down bin Laden without the knowledge of Pakistan’s army — eventhough I had acted under the authorization of Pakistan’s elected civilianleaders’ he wrote in his article.
‘The relationships I forged with members of Obama’s campaign team led tocloser cooperation between Pakistan and the United States in fightingterrorism over the 31/2 years I served as ambassador’ said Haqqani.
Former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani, who was prime minister ofPakistan at that time, rejected the allegations and expressed that theAbbottabad commission report should be made public which would expose therole of Hussain Haqqani.