Pakistan's U.S. envoy resigns over memo scandal

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's envoy to Washington lost a battle with the country's powerful generals to keep his job Tuesday over allegations he wrote a memo seeking U.S. help in stopping a supposed coup in the aftermath of the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

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