Kerry-Lugar’s First Victim

If true, this is total bull­shit:

After strong crit­i­cism on the Kerry-Lugar bill in Pak­istan, the gov­ern­ment has decided to replace Pakistan’s ambas­sador to the US Hus­sain Haqqani and the announce­ment in this respect is expected within the next two days.

There’s noth­ing in the bill rea­son­able Pak­ista­nis should object to, but bla­tant dem­a­goguery has appar­ently won the day on this issue.

UPDATE: Farah Ispa­hani, spokes­woman for Pres­i­dent Asif Ali Zardari and the wife of Haqqani, tells me the reports are untrue and the work of peo­ple who “would like to weaken our government.”

UPDATE II: And he’s still ambas­sador. Looks like Ispa­hani was right and this was dis­in­for­ma­tion put out.