Afghan Terror Network

United States Department of Defense quarterly report to US Congress says that Pakistan continues to harbor the Taliban and associated terrorist groups in Pakistan, such as the Haqqani Network, which maintains the ability to conduct attacks against Afghan interests.

The US has suspended more than $1.15 billion security assistance to Pakistan, accusing Islamabad of harbouring terror groups like the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani Network within its border and showing unwillingness to take "decisive actions" against them.

In a hard hitting attack on Pakistan, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani today accused it of launching an "undeclared war" on his country by covertly supporting several terror networks, including the Taliban.

The US State Department said that the Haqqani network and other terror groups that operate inside Pakistan and along the Afghan border were a continued security threat to the entire South Asian region and beyond.

Taliban supremo Mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in a US drone attack in Pakistan, sources in the terror group's network told news agency AFP on Sunday, adding that an insurgent assembly was underway to decide on his successor.

Afghanistan's intelligence agency has arrested a group of militants from the Haqqani network who plotted a terror attack on a guesthouse in Kabul last month. The attack killed 14 people -- four of them were Indians.

A Paris court has convicted nine people of belonging to a terrorist network that trained in Afghanistan and reportedly planned attacks in France.

Every year as the snow melts, groups like Taliban and its affiliates, the Haqqani network, as also the Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let) cross over from Pakistan as a fresh fighting season begins in Afghanistan. It is soldiers like Commander Kushal Sadat from Special Forces 222 who are called upon when terror strikes.

Acting against Pakistan-based Haqqani network of Taliban, the US has slapped financial sanctions on Nasiruddin Haqqani, a brother of the dreaded warlord Sirajudin Haqqani, and two other top militant commanders for their support to terror groups in Afghanistan.Besides Nasiruddin, the sanctions announced by the US Department of Treasury also targeted...

Britain today asked Pakistan to do more to tackle the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror network operating along its border with India and rein in the Taliban militants on its Afghan frontier.

United States Department of Defense quarterly report to US Congress says that Pakistan continues to harbor the Taliban and associated terrorist groups in Pakistan, such as the Haqqani Network, which maintains the ability to conduct attacks against Afghan interests.

The US has suspended more than $1.15 billion security assistance to Pakistan, accusing Islamabad of harbouring terror groups like the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani Network within its border and showing unwillingness to take "decisive actions" against them.

In a hard hitting attack on Pakistan, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani today accused it of launching an "undeclared war" on his country by covertly supporting several terror networks, including the Taliban.

The US State Department said that the Haqqani network and other terror groups that operate inside Pakistan and along the Afghan border were a continued security threat to the entire South Asian region and beyond.

Taliban supremo Mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in a US drone attack in Pakistan, sources in the terror group's network told news agency AFP on Sunday, adding that an insurgent assembly was underway to decide on his successor.

Afghanistan's intelligence agency has arrested a group of militants from the Haqqani network who plotted a terror attack on a guesthouse in Kabul last month. The attack killed 14 people -- four of them were Indians.

A Paris court has convicted nine people of belonging to a terrorist network that trained in Afghanistan and reportedly planned attacks in France.

Every year as the snow melts, groups like Taliban and its affiliates, the Haqqani network, as also the Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let) cross over from Pakistan as a fresh fighting season begins in Afghanistan. It is soldiers like Commander Kushal Sadat from Special Forces 222 who are called upon when terror strikes.

Acting against Pakistan-based Haqqani network of Taliban, the US has slapped financial sanctions on Nasiruddin Haqqani, a brother of the dreaded warlord Sirajudin Haqqani, and two other top militant commanders for their support to terror groups in Afghanistan.Besides Nasiruddin, the sanctions announced by the US Department of Treasury also targeted...

Britain today asked Pakistan to do more to tackle the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror network operating along its border with India and rein in the Taliban militants on its Afghan frontier.