Richard Holbrooke listens to Hussain Haqqani during a news conference by Hillary Rodham Clinton with her Pakistani counterpart, unseen, in Islamabad, Pakistan on Monday, July 19, 2010.—AP

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Monday termed the news published in a section of press about the replacement of Hussain Haqqani as an ambassador as false and clarified that he will continue with the job at Washington.

In response to media reports regarding the replacement of Haqqani with another senior politician, the Foreign Office spokesperson termed these as “untrue”.

A section of press quoting sources had published that the government had decided to replace Hussain Haqqani with a politician who was also a former foreign minister.

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