ISLAMABAD:
The military operations in tribal regions are targeting all militant groups, including the Haqqani Network, claimed a security official on Sunday, in response to a US State department report, which had suggested that certain terrorist outfits were being spared.
“It is not true that we have spared the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani Network. We have stated time and again that our operation is against all groups without any discrimination,” said the official, who requested not to be named in the report.
“Al Qaeda’s presence in the [South Asia] region continued to face pressure from international, Afghan and Pakistani forces, and Pakistan’s ongoing offensive in North Waziristan Agency [has] further degraded the group’s freedom to operate,” the report stated.