LONDON: Pakistan’s former ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani in an interview to a British newspaper said he feared for his life if he left the official residence of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.
Haqqani said he had been branded a ‘traitor’ and Washington lackey’ by powerful quarters and expressed concern that he would be murdered like former governor of Punjab Salman Taseer.
Haqqani was forced to resign after US businessman Mansoor Ijaz claimed the former ambassador has asked him to pass on a memo to the US government seeking to oust Pakistan’s military leadership.
Haqqani said he had been branded a ‘traitor’ and Washington lackey’ by powerful quarters and expressed concern that he would be murdered like former governor of Punjab Salman Taseer.
Haqqani was forced to resign after US businessman Mansoor Ijaz claimed the former ambassador has asked him to pass on a memo to the US government seeking to oust Pakistan’s military leadership.