Haqqani Fighters

Pakistan has time till the end of May to avail the American offer to procure eight F-16 fighter jets at an estimated cost of USD 700 million after the Obama administration told Islamabad that it should put forward national funds to buy these fighter jets.

As the US prepares to sell F-16s to Pakistan, the country's former top diplomat has warned the Congress that such fighter jets would end up being used against India and not against terrorists.

The US government urged Pakistan on Friday to prevent displaced Haqqani militants from returning to their traditional sanctuary after a Pakistani military offensive near the Afghanistan border.

US missiles killed a senior commander in the Al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network today. The terrorist was wanted for kidnappings and sending hundreds of foreign fighters into Afghanistan, Pakistani officials said.

A militant arrested in the attacks on the Afghan 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-Qaida, a top Afghan security official said Monday. Thirty-six insurgents were killed during the brazen attacks that also claimed th...

The U.S.-led coalition says more than 50 insurgents have been killed in a military operation at a foreign fighter encampment in eastern Afghanistan.

Pakistan has time till the end of May to avail the American offer to procure eight F-16 fighter jets at an estimated cost of USD 700 million after the Obama administration told Islamabad that it should put forward national funds to buy these fighter jets.

As the US prepares to sell F-16s to Pakistan, the country's former top diplomat has warned the Congress that such fighter jets would end up being used against India and not against terrorists.

The US government urged Pakistan on Friday to prevent displaced Haqqani militants from returning to their traditional sanctuary after a Pakistani military offensive near the Afghanistan border.

US missiles killed a senior commander in the Al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network today. The terrorist was wanted for kidnappings and sending hundreds of foreign fighters into Afghanistan, Pakistani officials said.

A militant arrested in the attacks on the Afghan 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-Qaida, a top Afghan security official said Monday. Thirty-six insurgents were killed during the brazen attacks that also claimed th...

The U.S.-led coalition says more than 50 insurgents have been killed in a military operation at a foreign fighter encampment in eastern Afghanistan.