Pakistan names new envoy to US in wake of scandal
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Pakistan appointed a liberal woman activist who has faced militant death threats as its new ambassador to the United States on Wednesday, moving quickly to replace the old envoy who resigned upsetting the country's powerful military in a scandal dubbed "memo-gate."
Sherry Rehman will likely be well-received in Washington though she will have a tough task representing Pakistan amid widespread suspicion in the US that nuclear-armed Pakistan is not a sincere ally in the fight against Islamist extremists. (AP)
