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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's ambassador to Washington, Hussain Haqqani, said on Thursday that he had offered to resign over reports that he sought US help against the country's powerful military. Haqqani, a close aide of President Asif Ali Zardari, has played a key role in helping Pakistan's civilian government navigate turbulent relations with Washington that nosedived over the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May. "I have offered to resign in conjunction with an offer to face an inquiry," Haqqani said, denying the reports, in an email sent to AFP. He said the purpose of this move "is to bring to an end the current controversy and allow the democratic government, for which I have worked very hard, to move on. The decision on whether I continue to serve or not rests with President Zardari". Local media reports implicate Haqqani in a memo allegedly sent from Zardari to Admiral Mike Mullen, then America's top military officer, seeking to curtail Pakis...

WASHINGTON:  Pakistan took a lot of criticism in Saturday’s Republican US presidential debate, with a leading candidate saying it was nearly a failed state and another suggesting the United States cut its foreign aid  to zero. But it is unclear whether any of their ideas is likely to be imposed on a country that has nuclear weapons and whose cooperation is seen as vital to stabilising Afghanistan as the United States prepares to pull out from there by the end of 2014. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney said Pakistan has multiple centers of power including the relatively weak civilian leadership, the military and the powerful intelligence agency known as the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate. “The right way to deal with Pakistan is to recognise that Pakistan is not a country, like other countries, with a strong political center that you can go to and say, ‘Gee, can we come here, will you take care of this problem?’” Romney said. “This is instead a nation which is ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf chief Imran Khan said on Friday he would never ally himself with either Nawaz Sharif or President Asif Ali Zardari because they would never meet his condition of declaring their assets. He was addressing a news conference at the residence of former chief of Intelligence Bureau Masood Sharif who announced that he was leaving the PPP and joining the PTI. Mr Khan urged all “sane and clean” political leaders to join his party to bring about what he called a “tsunami of change”. When asked why did he not demand that generals and judges should also declare their assets, he said: “First it is for the politicians, the president, the prime minister, cabinet members and top government functionaries to set an example by declaring their real and concealed assets; after that we can force all segments of society, including generals and judges, to declare their assets.” When asked how would he ensure fair and free elections which could enable him to come to power,...