Security forces in the Afghan capital have defused a truck bomb packed with nearly eight tonnes of explosives, the biggest of its kind discovered in the country, the spy agency said on Friday amid heightened security. Intelligence forces discovered the explosives in eastern Kabul, wired and ready for detonation, security officials said. ...
05:56 PM, Mar 15, 2013
Washington: There is no move by the US to begin the process of designating Pakistan as a state sponsor of terrorism, officials said, after the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton informed the Congress that the Haqqani network is being designated as a global terrorist organisation. Such a statement from senior US officials, who spoke to journalists on the condition of anonymity, came as a top Pentagon official had last year...
10:27 PM, Sep 08, 2012
Rarotonga: US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has said she will meet next week's deadline to report to Congress on whether the Haqqani network should be designated as a terrorist organisation. As she praised the contributions of Australia and New Zealand to the international military mission in Afghanistan, Clinton said on Friday she would present the report on the Haqqani network by September 9 as called for by lawmakers....
11:29 AM, Sep 01, 2012
Washington: After over a year of rancorous relations, US and Pakistani authorities are considering to launch joint counter-terrorism operations against the dreaded Haqqani network, which has carried out several attacks on American troops, in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The operations would be intended to help stamp out major security threats facing each country, targeting what the US says are sanctuaries for the Haqqani network in Pakistan, and what Pakistan says are...
06:00 PM, Aug 05, 2012
Washington: As ISI chief Lt Gen Zaheer-ul-Islam held crucial talks with his CIA counterpart David Petraeus, a damning report by a prestigious US military academy has said that the dreaded Haqqani Network receives financial and logistic support from the Pakistani military. The report on financing of Haqqani network by Combating Terrorism Center of the US Military Academy in West Point, New York, also said the Afghan Taliban-linked group has a...
03:13 PM, Aug 02, 2012
Washington: The US Senate has unanimously passed a resolution urging the Obama Administration to designate the dreaded Haqqani network as a foreign terrorist organisation. The resolution comes after the US House of Representatives passed Haqqani Network Terrorist Designation Act of 2012 early July. The bill, which was passed in 2011, had to be passed by the Senate again because of the changes made in it by the House. After Senate's...
11:31 AM, Jul 28, 2012
Washington: Ramping up the pressure on Obama Administration to designate the Haqqani Network as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives has passed a bill through voice vote. The bill, which was proposed by Senator Richard Burr and was brought to the House Floor under suspension of the rules on Tuesday, requires the State Department to decide within a month whether the Haqqani Network meets the criteria for...
11:03 AM, Jul 18, 2012
Washington: The United States aspires to have greater engagement with India sitting on an enormously important geostrategic location on the sea lines of communication from the Mideast into Pacific, according to a top US military officer. "We have for some time said that we aspired to a closer relationship and greater engagement with India," General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the foreign media on June...
11:26 AM, Jun 08, 2012
Kabul/Washington: In the strongest warning so far to Pakistan, US has said it is reaching the limits of its patience with Islamabad for allowing safe havens to terrorists, specially the dreaded Haqqani network. The warning was sounded by Defence Secretary Leon Panetta who on an unannounced visit to Afghanistan declared, "It is difficult to achieve peace in Afghanistan as long as there is safe haven for terrorists in Pakistan". Singling...
04:52 PM, Jun 07, 2012
Washington: The US has slapped sanctions on two individuals linked with the Taliban and the Haqqani network based along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, barring American citizens from any dealings with them. Bakht Gul, a Haqqani Network communications official, has been designated for acting for or on behalf of Badruddin Haqqani. Abdul Baqi Bari, a Taliban financier, is being designated for providing financial support for or financial services to, the Taliban, Adam...
12:21 PM, May 18, 2012
Washington: Wary of Indian influence in Afghanistan, Pakistan continues to support insurgent groups and provide terrorist safe havens so as to have its influence inside the war-torn country, the Pentagon told the Congress on Tuesday. Pakistan's selective counter insurgency operations, passive acceptance of insurgent safe havens and its unwillingness to interdict materials such as IEDs components undermine the security of Afghanistan, it said in a Congressionally mandated report. The Pentagon...
06:55 PM, May 01, 2012
Kabul: A major terror attack has been foiled in Kabul a week after the coordinated strikes in Afghanistan. Three Pakistanis and two Afghans have reportedly been detained with 10000 kg of explosives in Kabul. The explosive was being carried in a truck, which was seized by the authorities. According to reports, the explosives belong to the Haqqani network and the terrorists planned to assassinate Afghanistan Vice President Mohammad Khalil. Last...
02:20 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Washington/Islamabad: The United States has said that it will continue to press Islamabad to "squeeze" the al-Qaida linked Haqqani network, as Afghanistan blamed the Pakistan-based group for the latest brazen attacks in Kabul. Declaring "there were indications of Haqqani involvement" in the weekend attacks in the Afghan capital, secretary of state Hillary Clinton said that she had pressed Pakistan to "squeeze" the Haqqani network when she visited Islamabad last October....
10:57 PM, Apr 17, 2012
It is now believed that Pakistan-based terror groups were responsible for Sunday's attack in Kabul. ...
10:21 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Kabul: The Afghan Foreign Ministry on Monday blamed Pakistan after a series of daily Taliban attacks in Kabul's diplomatic area killed 9 civilians and 14 police officers. Nearly 32 militants were killed in the attack. An 18-hour gunbattle in the heart of Kabul's high security diplomatic zone ended on Monday morning and the militants demonstrated once again their ability to infiltrate into the heavily guarded diplomatic area with arms and...
09:44 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Kabul: A militant arrested in the attacks on the Afghanistan capital and three other cities has confessed that the 18-hour assault was carried out by the Haqqani network, a lethal group of fighters with ties to the Taliban and al Qaeda, a top Afghan security official said on Monday. Thirty-six insurgents were killed during the brazen, 18-hour attacks that also claimed the lives of eight policemen and three civilians and...
01:34 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Kabul: The Afghan government's Interior Ministry said on Sunday that initial intelligence on a wave of insurgent attacks across the country pointed to involvement of the militant Haqqani Network. "It's too early to say, but the initial findings show the Haqqanis were involved," Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi told Reuters. Sediqqi said fighting had ended in the eastern provinces of Paktia and Nangarhar, but continued in parts of central Kabul...
03:33 AM, Apr 16, 2012
Washington: Pakistan's support for Haqqani network has increased through both facilitating additional sanctuary and providing strategic and operational guidance, a top US think tank has said. In its report on Monday, the Institute for the Study of War has asserted that the network represents a strategic threat to the enduring stability of the Afghan state and US national security interests in the region. "The Haqqani Network is the primary proxy...
07:27 AM, Mar 20, 2012
Washington: In a "top-secret" cable to the Obama administration, America's envoy to Kabul has warned that the existence of terror sanctuaries in Pakistan and insurgent activities of the "lethal" Haqqani network were a "deal-killer" for the US strategy in Afghanistan. The cable written by Ambassador Ryan C Crocker last month "amounted to an admission that years of US efforts to curtail insurgent activity in Pakistan by the lethal Haqqani network,...
01:31 PM, Feb 25, 2012
Washington: Mansoor Ijaz, the man who stirred Pakistan's 'memogate', has alleged that Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), especially its 'S' or strategic wing, was not in government control and was interfering in Afghanistan's political affairs. There was considerable evidence available on the spy agency's involvement in setting the political stage in Pakistan by manipulating election results, the Pakistani-American businessman told CNN in an interview. ISI also interferes in the...
12:30 PM, Dec 06, 2011
