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mahmud ali durrani tariq mir sherry rehman tariq altaf 3 daughters 1 son karachi , pakistan islam journalist 24th of pakistan to sri lanka pakistan ambassador to the united states high commissioner 1 july 1956 13 april 2008 11 may 1992 farahnaz ispahani hussainhaqqani.jpg husain haqqani
 22 november 2011 28 june 1993 husain haqqani حسین حقّانی university of karachi
husain haqqani

husain haqqani -lrb- urdu : حسین حقّانی ; born 1 july 1956 -rrb- , alternately spelled hussain haqqani , is a pakistani political author and the former pakistan ambassador to the united states .
he was appointed as the pakistan ambassador in april 2008 , after being exiled in 1999 following criticisms against the government of then-president pervez musharraf .
he resigned on 22 november 2011 following allegations of his involvement in the memogate controversy .
prior to serving as ambassador to the united states , haqqani held several positions including as an adviser to three former pakistani prime ministers and as envoy to sri lanka .
in additions , haqqani has also been a journalist , scholar and educator .
he is currently a senior fellow and director for south and central asia at the hudson institute in washington , d.c. and co-editor of hudson 's signature journal `` current trends in islamist ideology '' .
haqqani is also the director of the center of international relations and a professor of the practice of international relations at boston university .
