Tag: Haqqanis

Pakistan rides out US pressure on Haqqanis

Pakistan has stared down an unprecedented outbreak of US fury over its refusal to rein in the Haqqani network, gaining Washington little and teeing...

Haqqanis denies ISI links, Rabbani killing

The operational leader of Taliban-allied militant group the Haqqani network denied it killed Afghan peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani in an interview with the BBC...

Pakistan must act against Haqqanis: us

The US said it wants to work with Pakistan in the fight against terrorism, but insisted Islamabad had been given a “clear message” to...

Imran offers to mediate with Haqqanis

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan said on Tuesday that he was ready to hold talks with the Haqqani group if the government allowed him...

Pakistan can bring Haqqanis to the table, US told

Pakistan on Tuesday offered the United States that it could facilitate negotiations between Washington and the Haqqani network in a bid to promote peace...

Haqqanis were your blue-eyed boys, Hina Khar tells US

Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said the Haqqani group, that the US holds responsible for last week’s attack against the American embassy...

Contacts don’t mean we support Haqqanis: army

Military spokesman Athar Abbas said the Inter-Services Intelligence had contacts with the Haqqani Network but it does not mean that Pakistan Army supports the...

US frustrations over Haqqanis blow over

The US military’s top officer bluntly accused Pakistan on Thursday of “exporting” violent extremism to Afghanistan through proxies and warned of possible US action...

Haqqanis are ‘sons of soil’, believes Malik

Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Wednesday the Haqqanis were a product of the Afghan war with the Soviet Union and were “sons of...

No means no: Pakistan tells US on Haqqanis

Pakistan on Wednesday warned the US against any unilateral military action against the Haqqani Network, as it again rejected the US demand for a...

US again presses Pakistan on Haqqanis

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed Pakistan on Sunday to take action against Haqqani militants the United States blames for an attack on...

Action against Haqqanis, not yet

Admiral Michael Mullen, the US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Friday demanded a full-fledged military operation in North Waziristan Agency against...

Mullen cites progress against Haqqanis

The top US military officer said on Sunday that Afghan militants of the anti-American Haqqani network were finding it harder to move into Afghanistan...

No Haqqanis or Taliban in North Waziristan: jirga

The members of traditional tribal jirga Sunday told Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Barrister Masud Kausar that the militants associated with Haqqani network and Tehrik Taliban...

Karzai gets assurance on Haqqanis

The Pakistani leadership assured Afghan President Hamid Karzai during his recent visit to Islamabad that it would try its best to persuade the Haqqani...

ISI pressing Haqqanis to talk peace: WSJ

The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is pressing the Haqqani network to join nascent Afghan peace talks, even as the US officials demand an offensive against...

Nasiruddin Haqqani’s arrest deadliest blow to Taliban

ISLAMABAD - The arrest of Nasiruddin Haqqani, son of Jalaluddin Haqqani, the most influential militant commander and head of insurgent group, the Haqqani network, is being dubbed as the deadliest blow to the Taliban by the diplomatic circles.
"The Afghan and coalition forces are very happy over the development as Nasiruddin Haqqani, also known as Dr Khan, is not only the son of the most influential Taliban commander but also one of the two or three main leaders of the most lethal