"I have requested PM Gilani to accept my resignation as Pakistan Ambasssador to US," Husain Haqqani just wrote on his Twitter page.

Gerald Herbert/AP Husain Haqqani.

And he followed that with this statement: "I have much to contribute to building a new Pakistan free of bigotry & intolerance. Will focus energies on that."
Pakistan's DAWN news group says Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani "has reportedly accepted Haqqani's resignation."
Word that Haqqani has submitted his resignation follows the ambassador's return to Pakistan "to answer questions about his alleged role in a secret memo scandal."
As The Associated Press adds:
 

"The controversy centers on a memo that was sent in May to Adm. Mike Mullen, the top U.S. military official at the time, asking for his help in reining in Pakistan's powerful military after the covert American raid that killed Osama bin Laden in a Pakistani garrison town.
"Mansoor Ijaz, a U.S. citizen of Pakistani origin, has claimed that ... Haqqani orchestrated the memo, which has been published in the media and does not include an author's name. ... Haqqani has denied the allegations."

Called "memogate" in Pakistan, the controversy has caused scandal there because of the implication that someone in authority was appealing to the U.S. for such help.
Haqqani has been a guest several times on NPR broadcasts. In July, he told All Things Considered host Robert Siegel that:

"Pakistan and the United States have a complex, multidimensional relationship. Both countries need each other. Occasionally there are differences between the best of allies. We've seen that through history: France and the United States had problems, Britain and the United States did not always agree on the conduct of the Second World War.
"So I think what we see is basically a difficult, complex relationship playing out in an age of media glare. But what comes in the media glare is not always what happens in private between us as allies."

veena malik nude leak photo

A row has erupted over an image of Pakistani actress Veena Malik sporting the initials ISI on her arm, with FHM India insisting it is not fake.

It has caused a sensation in Pakistan for both the nudity and the initials of Pakistan's controversial Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency.
Pakistani media have quoted a spokesman for Ms Malik as saying she never took part in such a photoshoot.
But FHM India's editor told the BBC that nothing had been doctored.
"We have video footage of the shoot as well as emails from Veena about how she's looking forward to the cover," Kabeer Sharma told the BBC's Nosheen Abbas in Islamabad.
"The idea to have ISI written on her arm was mine, and it was Veena's idea to have it in block letters," he added.
He said that the image was intended to be playful, saying that: "In India we joke about this... if anything goes wrong... we say the ISI must be behind this."
The ISI has been in the headlines in recent months after senior US officials accused it of supporting militants based in Pakistan's tribal areas who target Western troops in Afghanistan.
In September the most senior US military officer Adm Mike Mullen said that the Haqqani militant network "acts as a veritable arm of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency".
Pakistan has vehemently denied such allegations.
Pakistan outrage Correspondents say that the image, which is the cover of the December issue of the Indian edition of the global men's magazine, has caused a storm in Pakistan with many people expressing outrage over the nudity and the boldness of the photo.
Many Pakistanis on the micro-blogging site Twitter are also expressing bemusement at the image.
The Express Tribune newspaper in Pakistan said a representative of Ms Malik had denied she posed for the shoot.
"Veena knows her limits. I know we have done quite bold stuff/shoots, those which are available on our website, but she knows her parameters," Sohail Rashid is quoted as saying.
FHM's editor said he had never heard of the representative and added that Ms Malik had not got in touch to ask him to modify or remove the image.
The actress has been at the centre of controversy before.
She caused outrage among conservative circles in Pakistan for appearing on the Indian reality show Bigg Boss in 2010. She hit the headlines again in March this year by challenging the views of a Pakistani cleric on television.

Greater fools have represented Pakistan at international forums. Ms. Khar will probably do worse. The post held by one of the most powerful men in the world Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto has been degraded to such an extent that Hina Rabbi Khar today holds the position of Foreign Minister. The PPPP has great stalwarts, Sherry Rehman, and Maleeha Lodhi who would have made great Foreign Ministers. Hina Rabbani Khar has no credentials, no personality and no depth of experience.

Ms Khar, was handicapped in attending ministerial meetings because she was not a full fledged minister–even though she had been looking after the foreign ministry as a junior minister. Her elevation rumored for some time, has now become a reality.

Her filling the slot is a useless exercise at a time when Pakistan needs dynamic, progressive and experienced folks in the Foreign Ministry. The external challenges are great and Islamabad needs a seasoned politician to run the things. The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Hina Rabbani Khar has confirmed that she was being elevated as a federal minister for foreign affairs.