Islamabad, Nov 23: In a surprise choice, Sherry Rehman, a senior politician who earned the wrath of militants for her opposition to Pakistan’s harsh blasphemy law, was today named to the key post of the country’s Ambassador to the United States.
50-year-old Rehman will succeed Husain Haqqani who was forced out of office yesterday following his suspected involvement in a memo handed over to the US, seeking support for President Asif Ali Zardari to avert a military coup after the American raid in which Osama bin Laden was killed on May 2.
The controversy over the memo dubbed by the media as “memogate” cost Haqqani his job, in a victory for the powerful military.
Rehman, a former federal information minister and a well-known journalist, was a senior politician belonging to the ruling PPP. She was close to former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and also regarded as close to Zardari although she resigned in 2009 following differences with him over dealing with the media.
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