Islamabad [Pakistan], July 11 (ANI): A commander of the Haqqani network - a Taliban faction considered closest to Pakistan's military establishment, has joined the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), media reports said.
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 14 (ANI): Grabbing of power by the Taliban in Afghanistan may have brought a sense of gratification to the powerful army-intelligence nexus of Pakistan but it has created rippling effects for which Islamabad might be ill-prepared as it has also damaged the latter's relationship with the West emerging as a Frankenstein which will turn on its creator sooner than later.
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 19 (ANI): Pakistan is primarily responsible for the mess in Afghanistan and until and unless Afghanistan is freed from the malign influence and interference of Pakistan, even the best-intentioned aid and relief program will fail, reported Times of Israel.
Washington [US], November 18 (ANI): Three months since the Taliban take over of Afghanistan, the Haqqani Network --- which was often responsible for the deadliest and highest-profile terrorist attacks on US forces -- has now emerged as kingmakers in Kabul.
Washington [US], November 13 (ANI): The ties between the United States and Pakistan are driven by ad hoc security concerns and the country hardly share any strategic or economic interests, a foreign policy expert said.
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 19 (ANI): Sirajudin Haqqani, the Taliban's newly-announced government's acting minister of interior affairs met the families of the suicide bombers who conducted attacks in the past two decades in Afghanistan targeting foreign and the government troops, reported local media.
Washington [US], September 14 (ANI): Noting that Pakistan has "harboured" members of the Taliban including the terrorists from the proscribed Haqqani network, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Islamabad needs to "line up" with a broad majority of the international community regarding Afghanistan.
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 28 (ANI): The US who first designated the Haqqani Network as a terrorist group in 2012, is now a part of the government in Afghanistan post the Taliban takeover of the war-torn country.
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 27 (ANI): A day after ISIS claimed responsibility for the twin Kabul blasts that killed over 60 people, once again questions are being raised about the Taliban's complicity in the actions of the terrorist group.