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Husain Haqqani, the Pakistani ambassador to Washington, assures Josh Rogin that he has yet to be fired. So who else isn’t resigning?

Pakistani President Endorses Swat Deal With Taliban

On Thursday, Pakistani Ambassador Husain Haqqani admonished critics that his government had not endorsed any peace deal with the Taliban in the Swat Valley:

Pakistan has not done a peace deal with the Taliban in Swat Valley. Period. Pakistan has negotiated an arrangement, locally, with the Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammedi of Swat.

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Roggio Fisks Haqqani

Want to read an extremely thorough response to Pakistani Ambassador Husain Haqqani’s remarks on the ceasefires in Pakistan’s Swat Valley? Over at the Weekly Standard’s blog, Bill Roggio goes off. To take one point that has deep implications for the Obama administration’s nascent efforts at bolstering Pakistani More…

Pakistani Ambassador: The Swat Valley Will Be ‘Cleared’ of ‘Extremists’

Something that didn’t really fit into my piece this morning about Pakistani Ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani’s presentation yesterday with his Afghan counterpart, Said Jawad: Haqqani disputed that there’s any presidential support for the peace deal negotiated with the Pakistani Taliban in the Swat Valley, which essentially More…