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| Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani |
Source/Credit: ABC News | This Week
By Jessica Desvarieux | June 19, 2011
Slightly edited and adopted from ABC's piece "Pakistan Ambassador Defends Arrest of CIA Informants"
Pakistani Ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani appeared on Sunday news shows to defend Pakistan's decision to detain informants who aided the CIA in tracking down Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Ambassador Haqqani was among the panelists who appeared on ABC's This Week with Christiane Amanpour.
"Pakistan has rounded up more than 30 people as part of the investigation about the Osama bin Laden compound," Haqqani said. "As far as the concern that there are people amongst the people that we have rounded up who are informants for the CIA, we will deal with them as we would deal with a friendly intelligence service, and we will resolve this to the satisfaction of our friends, as well as to our own laws."
Responding to a question by This Week host about the fate of men detained, Haqqani said his government needed to get a better grasp of the operation's details.
"No one has been punished," Haqqani said. "Basically this is an exercise in trying to find out what has happened."
Ambassador Haqqani maintained that Pakistani intelligence was instrumental in the capture and killing of bin Laden, and assured that both the U.S. and Pakistani militaries are making the capture of the newly-named head of al Qaeda Ayman al-Zawihiri a top priority.
"The U.S side and Pakistan are working together on any information that any side has," Haqqani said. "Whatever we do, we will do jointly."
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