By: Sohail
Parwaz
Few months back I was reading an article somewhere, in which the
writer paid a ‘rich tribute’ to Mr. Husain Haqqani by quoting George Orwell’s
famous fable ‘Animal Farm’ about the animals rise-up against their human
masters and subsequently taking over the farm while crying liberation. The
writer beautifully penned down the tyranny that emerged under the pigs, hence,
in Animal Farm Squealer the pig, became the
mouthpiece for leader and fellow swine. All those who have the chance to read
this famous tale should know that Squealer has “twinkling eyes” and “nimble
movements”. He’s “a brilliant talker”, and while arguing some difficult point,
he would skip side to side. The others side of Squealer is that he could
turn black into white since Squealer’s spin is vital. One can dare not compare
the esteemed Mr. Husain Haqqani and his spouse Farahnaz Ispahani with Squealer
because the latter remained loyal to the pigs throughout. But the former
ambassador’s ‘ethics’ are his greatest potency: a selective memory loss that’s
spun him 180 degrees; from a student at KU, to a wise man on world affairs at
Boston University today.
Sixty years old Husain
Haqqani worked as a journalist from 1980 to 1988 and then as political
adviser for Nawaz Sharif and spokesperson for Benazir Bhutto. He
frequently adjusted the sails of his vessel and enjoyed the ambassadorship for
few years when he was sent to Sri Lanka in 1992. However, he failed to polish
General Pervez Musharraf’s ‘apples’ hence soon went in exile. Till 2008 he
taught international relations at Boston University and in 2008 he was
appointed as Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, nevertheless, his
tenure ended after the Memogate incident, when the claim was made that he
had been insufficiently protective of Pakistan’s interests. A judicial
commission was set up by the Supreme Court of Pakistan to probe the allegations
against him. According to commission’s report which was issued in June 2012,
Haqqani was declared guilty of authoring a memo which called for direct US
intervention into Pakistan.
Haqqani, who started his
student political career from Islami Jameeat e Talba (IJT) couldn’t continue
with them due to his Casanova Nature. He was known as a highest order flirt,
whose first marriage story was very attention-grabbing. He was suggested a
proposal in the family but when he went there, he lost his heart to a young
schoolgirl while ignoring the actual proposal. He married to Ms. ‘H’ and has a
boy and a girl from her. Later, he divorced her to marry to PPP’s Naheed Khan’s
sister and soon divorced her too, only to marry the famous dancer Nighat
Chaudhry. The third marriage of ‘Mr. Opportunist’ also remained unsuccessful
and that’s how Mrs. Farahnaz Ispahani, ex Member of Parliament (PPP) and the
granddaughter of Mirza Abul Hassan Ispahani, Pakistan’s first ambassador to
Washington, became wife of Husain Haqqani.
Haqqani was in fact trapped by Farahnaz Ispahani to use his talent
for her ancestral ‘hate role’ and keep up
monopoly of their cronies appointed throughout world and locally, otherwise
Haqqani is a middle class person well known for his fundamental beliefs, and
change in his ideology was surprising for lot of persons who knows him since
early education, however Haqqani himself is an opportunist who is also using
Ispahani as stair to get benefits of established mafia. Both ruined the career
of Naheed khan and Safdar Abbasi, who were named in murder of BB, and so much
so that they were not even invited in oath taking ceremony of Zardari, major
crime of Naheed Khan was that she is sister of one of the ex-wives of Haqqani
(in fact that marriage was part of opportunism of Haqqani to take advantage of
Naheed Khan’s relations with BB). The opportunist Farahnaz Ispahani was
appointed as Zardari’s spokesperson at the President House where her activities
became talk of the town. Both are opportunists and their goal is power and,
ideology is faithfulness to their masters without any principal. Farahnaz who
claimed to be champion of women rights, first steal rights of previous wife of
Husain Haqqani, later replaced her nastily.
Pakistan’s former envoy to
the United States and a wolf in sheep’s casing, Husain Haqqani, is no stranger
to conspiracies. But even he did not anticipate finding himself effectively
imprisoned amid a scandal involving a shady memo, a businessman with unclear
motives and allegations of treason. He was caught up over a memo that accused
the army of plotting a coup after the US raid in Abbottabad that killed Osama
bin Laden. Ever since then, fearing for his life, he took asylum in the
luxurious hilltop Prime Minister House in Islamabad.
The scandal broke when a businessman Mansoor Ijaz, revealed in a
column in the Financial Times that a senior Pakistani diplomat had asked for
help in delivering a memo to the US Defence Department for help in reining in
the military. The gentleman was known for switching affiliations and loyalties.
During the later years of General Musharraf’s rule, when latter visited once
America, same person tried to contact him and asked for one on one meeting
which the smart general bluntly refused as he knew about the Johnny well and
was updated about his selfish mentality as well. The guy felt humiliated and
started a venomous propaganda campaign against the General in the US press. The
out spoken president didn’t forget and forgive him and during one of his visits
to the States, during a press conference, openly nitpicked the smart boy. The
muck didn’t stop there and soon there was a gossip about his collaboration with
a notorious anti Pakistan American think tank ‘Carnegie’s Endowment’. It was
generally said that in the said paper’s script the most lethal parts related to
Pakistan were scripted by our ex
(intellectual) ambassador. Mansoor Ijaz later identified the diplomat as Husain
Haqqani. Husain Haqqani was contended while thinking that the draft memo had no
signatures, not realizing that the forensic science would dig out the relation
between the BBM texts, call times and the memo. Room 430, Park Lane
Intercontinental London, eventually turned out to be Waterloo for him. No
evidence had emerged that the military was plotting a coup and the Pentagon at
the time dismissed the memo as not credible, however, Husain Haqqani and his
spouse Farahnaz Ispahani attained fame and became blue-eyed due to their hate
for Pakistan and its esteemed institutions.
The turn in the story took
place when both husband and wife recently toured India where they were accorded
a very special treatment. What all they did there and the venom both of them
uttered in India is to follow.
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