If fired, Haqqani threatens to unveil 'reams' of Pakistan's secrets

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan-The Pakistan Embassy in Washington continues to convey a wrong picture to American officials and politicians on the uproar in Pakistan over the condescending language in the Kerry-Lugar bill.
Embassy ‘sources’ are feeding a consistent line to US officials and media that the uproar in Pakistan is ‘manipulated’ by the Pakistani military, President Zardari’s political opponents and the “anti-American forces in Islamabad.”
This line is increasingly finding space in most US media reports that quote Pakistan Embassy sources on the issue.
One US media report even quotes a ‘source’ saying that the personal attacks against Ambassador Haqqani are the result of what one US journalist has termed as Mr. Haqqani’s ‘anti-army’ position in the years before he joined the elected government last year.
While attempting to defend his position, suspicion is growing that Ambassador Haqqani is doing a huge a disservice to his country and to his hosts by misleading both on the real issues that have generated the latest tensions in the relationship between Islamabad and Washington.
And the complaints are not just coming from Islamabad. Even some Americans are beginning to identify this communication problem between the two capitals. At least one former US military officer who now works as an analyst focused on US-Pakistan relations has told The Nation from Washington that US officials are “badly misinformed” about the real debate in Pakistan. US officials do not know, according to him, that the problem is not the so-called ‘anti-American forces’ in Pakistan but the offensive language in the bill.
The latest development in this story is that the prestigious Foreign Policy magazine is now quoting sources close to Ambassador Haqqani that he is contemplating going public with embarrassing Pakistani official documents that he laid his hands on during his official capacity if he was fired from his job for playing a deliberate role in inserting anti-military and nuclear-related clauses in the Kerry-Lugar bill.