Rawalpindi: Pakistan’s top military commander will visit the United States in the backdrop of memo controversy that led to resignation of Islamabad’s ambassador to Washington Hussain Haqqani, sources said on Wednesday.
The sources said that Lieutenant General Muhammad Asif of Joint Staff Headquarters along with other top military officers would visit the US.
The military delegation will hold meetings with US army officials and think tanks to take the memo issue to its logical end.
Hussain Haqqani was asked on Tuesday to tender his resignation during a meeting at the Prime Minister House attended by the country’s top civil and military leadership, including President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Chief Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja Pasha.
Gilani on Wednesday, appointed Sherry Rehman, a liberal PPP lawmaker, as ambassador to the US.
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