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Sherry Rehman appointed Pakistan envoy to US
Wednesday November 23, 2011 02:54:37 PM,
IANS
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Islamabad: Former
minister Sherry Rehman, known for her outspoken views, was
Wednesday appointed Pakistan's ambassador to the US after Husain
Haqqani quit over a secret memo that claimed President Asif Ali
Zardari feared a military coup.
Dawn reported that Rehman, Pakistan People's Party's member of the
National Assembly, was appointed Pakistan's envoy to the US.
Haqqani Tuesday submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Yousuf
Raza Gilani over the secret memo that was sent to Washington.
Pakistani businessman Mansoor Ijaz had alleged last month that a
senior Pakistani diplomat asked for help in getting a message from
Zardari to then chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral
Mike Mullen.
Ijaz alleged that Zardari feared a military takeover following the
US raid that killed Osama bin Laden in his hideout in Pakistan
town of Abbottabad May 2.
Prior to the memo issue, the Pakistan Army and the Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI) were upset with Haqqani over issuance of visas
to Americans without "prior scrutiny" by the Pakistani security
agencies.
Rehman, Pakistan's information and broadcasting minister, had
resigned from her post in 2009 due to differences over the
government's media policy.
Thereafter, Rehman had led the efforts to reform the blasphemy law
after Aasia Bibi, a Christian mother of four, was sentenced to
death for allegedly insulting Prophet Muhammad.
She was supported by Punjab governor Salman Taseer and minorities
minister Shahbaz Bhatti -- both of whom were shot dead this year.
A British newspaper had reported that with two of three Pakistani
politicians who opposed the blasphemy law assassinated, friends of
Sherry Rehman now fear for her life.
She has been advised by government ministers to leave Pakistan,
the report said.
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