Husain Haqqani
On Leave
Husain Haqqani is presently on leave serving as Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States.
Husain Haqqani is the director of the Center for International Relations and an associate professor at Boston University, as well as a fellow at Hudson Institute. He was formerly a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Haqqani acquired traditional Islamic learning as well as a modern education in International Relations. His journalism career started with work as East Asian correspondent for Arabia-The Islamic World Review during the turbulent years following the Iranian revolution. During this period he wrote extensively on Muslims in China and East Asia and Islamic political movements. Later, as Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, he covered the war in Afghanistan and acquired deep understanding of militant Islamist Jihadi groups.
Haqqani also has a distinguished career in government. He served as an advisor to Pakistani Prime ministers Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, Nawaz Sharif, and Benazir Bhutto. From 1992 to 1993 he was Pakistan's ambassador to Sri Lanka.
He has contributed to numerous international publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Foreign Policy, The New Republic and The Financial Times. He regularly comments on Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Islamic politics and extremism on BBC, C-Span, CNN, NBC, Fox News and ABC. He has also written and spoken extensively on U.S. relations with the Muslim world.
Haqqani is author of Pakistan Between Mosque and Military and co-editor, with Hillel Fradkin and Eric Brown, of Hudson Institute's report Current Trends in Islamist Ideology.
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