The Washington Diplomat

Pakistan
Ambassador-Designate Husain Haqqani

Husain Haqqani has been appointed Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States.

A prominent journalist, Ambassador Haqqani has contributed op-eds and articles to dozens of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Boston Globe, Financial Times in London, International Herald Tribune, South China Morning Post, Toronto Globe and Mail, Gulf News and Le Monde. In the early 1980s, he covered the war in Afghanistan for Voice of America radio, served as the Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondent for Far Eastern Economic Review, and worked in Hong Kong as the East Asian correspondent for the London-based Arabia – the Islamic World Review. He has also been a syndicated columnist for the Indian Express and Daily Star in Bangladesh, among other publications, and has appeared regularly on television news shows for BBC, CNN, NBC, PBS, CBS and ABC, commenting on Pakistan, Afghanistan, South Asian affairs, and Islamic politics and radicalism.

In his governmental and political career, Ambassador Haqqani served as chairman of the House Building Finance Corp. (1995-96), spokesman to Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and federal secretary for information and broadcasting (1993-95), Pakistani ambassador to Sri Lanka (1992-93), special assistant and principal spokesman for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (1990-92), and special assistant to Prime Minister Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi in 1990. He has also worked in the parliamentary election campaign for the Peoples Democratic Front party led by Benazir Bhutto (1993) and the campaign for the IJI alliance led by Nawaz Sharif (1988).

In addition, since 2004, Ambassador Haqqani has been an associate professor for international relations at Boston University, co-chair of the Project on Islam and Democracy at the Hudson Institute in Washington, and editor of the journal Current Trends in Islamists Ideology. Among his numerous writing credits are “Pakistan Between Mosque and Military” for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2005), “Islam’s Medieval Outposts” for Foreign Policy (2003), and “The Role of Islam in Pakistan’s Future” for Washington Quarterly (2004-05).

Ambassador Haqqani holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Karachi.

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