United States President Barack Obama intends to nominate Richard Olsen to be the next US ambassador to Pakistan, reports The Cable.  

Olsen, a senior member of the foreign service, has been serving as the coordinating director for development and economic affairs at the US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, since June 2011.  

If confirmed, he will replace Ambassador Cameron Munter, who announced in May that he would step down from his post after only 18 months on the job. Munter, who presided over the Islamabad embassy during perhaps the worst period in US-Pakistan relations in over a decade, resigned of his own accord and will retire from the foreign service and join the private sector, three sources with direct knowledge of the pending appointment told The Cable.  

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