Friday, January 9, 2009

Pakistan Fired The Wrong Guy

From Foreign Policy Blog:

I'm sorry to see that Mehmud Ali Durrani, the former Pakistani ambassador to Washingon, was fired as national-security advisor to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

I met Durrani a few times at the embassy in Van Ness, and he was always gracious, unfailingly polite and -- if somewhat evasive, due to the nature of his job -- at least he made an effort to answer our questions.

The following is an interview with FP from November 2007:



Close observers of Pakistani politics will note that he doesn't seem to go out of his way to defend Pervez Musharraf, who was clearly on his way out at that point. Perhaps that's why Durrani landed on his feet in the new government.

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