1 Pakistan's ambassador in Washington, Husain Haqqani, vehemently denied claims the country's intelligence agency, the ISI, had backed the Taliban.

2 Pakistan's Ambassador, Husain Haroon, is optimistic, saying there has been a great deal of divisiveness in the past, but that views are starting to converge.

3 Ambassador Husain Haqqani says the individuals who have been rounded up in Pakistan are part of an effort to find out what happened and how, and who was involved.

4 Our most famous painter, M. F. Husain, who lives in exile under threats from extremists for daring to paint Hindu deities in the nude, knows that we have yet to secure the right to free expression.

5 Husain Haqqani, the new Pakistan ambassador to the United States, tells VOA he strongly disagrees with the RAND report.

6 Husain Haqqani denied any involvement in the memo forwarded to America's most senior military officer Admiral Mike Mullen.

7 Pakistan Ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani is defending his country's decision to round up more than 30 people as part of an investigation into the Osama bin Laden compound.

8 Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to Washington, has dismissed such warnings as hyperbolic and accused US officials and analysts of being guilty of a "panic reaction".

9 "It turned out to be a referendum on Musharraf, " said Irfan Husain. "I don't give him more than a few months, unless there is pressure from the US."