updated Wed. November 29, 2023
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Aljazeera.com
March 8, 2018
In January, US President Donald Trump cut more than $1.1bn in military assistance to Pakistan over allegations that it was providing safe haven to members of the Afghan Taliban and Haqqani Network. Pakistan denies the charges, alleging that it is being scapegoated for the failure of US-led coalitionÃâà...
The Tribune
March 8, 2018
Pakistan is particularly vulnerable to pressures from this task force as the Afghan Taliban, Haqqani network, LeT and JeM — all internationally designated terrorist groups — operate from its soil. Pakistan has long claimed that it has done its best to prevent terrorism emanating from its soil. It has also averredÃâà...
News18
March 8, 2018
Washington: The Haqqani Network continues to enjoy significant support inside Pakistan due to which the terrorist group still carrying out across the border in ... General Petr Pavel, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, the second in command in the Haqqani Network, he said, is effectively driving theÃâà...
Business Line
March 7, 2018
Pakistan is particularly vulnerable to pressures from this task force as the Afghan Taliban, Haqqani Network, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed — all internationally designated terrorist groups — operate from its soil. Pakistan has long claimed that it has done its best to prevent terrorism emanatingÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 7, 2018
In January, Trump cut $1.1bn in security aid to Pakistan, saying the country was not doing enough to fight elements of the Afghan Taliban and Haqqani Network allegedly present in its territory. Pakistan denies the charge. Despite the aid freeze, diplomatic contacts between the two countries have continued,Ãâà...
Stars and Stripes
March 6, 2018
In another case, counts appear to be off by some 400 operations in a line breaking down how many of the total ground raids and supporting U.S. strikes targeted each of four groups: an Islamic State affiliate, the Taliban, the Haqqani network — an especially brutal arm of the Taliban — and “other insurgentÃâà...
Long War Journal
March 6, 2018
One of the multitude of documents seized during the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, detailed Harrach's role and importance to al Qaeda as well as his cooperation with the Taliban's Haqqani Network during the raid on Bagram. Other prominent Germans known to haveÃâà...
Newburgh Gazette
March 3, 2018
Curtis was in Islamabad this week and held meetings with Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal and Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Bilal Akbar. Before joining the Trump administration, Curtis along with former ambassador Hussain Haqqani had authored a paper,Ãâà...
Economic Times
February 27, 2018
"Curtis urged the government of Pakistan to address the continuing presence of the Haqqani network and other terrorist groups within its territory, and reiterated the international community's long-standing concern about ongoing deficiencies in Pakistan's implementation of its anti-money laundering/Ãâà...
The Cipher Brief
February 14, 2018
In response, senior U.S. administration officials would only say that Washington has asked Pakistan to take “specific” action against the Taliban and the Haqqani network, which have been blamed for recent violent attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan. The officials tell The Cipher Brief that Pakistan's intelligenceÃâà...
The News International
February 8, 2018
MIRANSHAH: Three militants belonging to the Haqqani network were killed and several others were reportedly wounded in a US drone strike in Gorek area of Afghanistan, official sources said on Thursday. The sources said that the drone fired two missiles and struck a house near Pakistan's border withÃâà...
Firstpost
February 6, 2018
Washington: The United States has asked Pakistan to expel terrorists, especially the Taliban leaders, operating from terror safe havens within its soil, a top Trump administration official said on Tuesday. "We've had a number of discussions with our Pakistani partners on expectations for change andÃâà...
Voice of America
January 13, 2018
An Afghan defense official told VOA that the recent spike in violence in Afghanistan is not the work of the Islamic State terror group. Rather the Pakistan-based Haqqani network is behind the attacks, he said. General Mohammad Radmanesh, a spokesperson for the Afghan Ministry of Defense, told VOA theÃâà...
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