Haqqani in a sentence

Among 80 others, the Taliban are demanding the release of Anas Haqqani, the younger brother of Sirajuddin, deputy head of the Taliban and leader of the Haqqani network, often considered the strongest of the Taliban fighting in Afghanistan.

Earlier, Haqqani said those well-versed in diplomacy knew Imran Khan had been lying since day one.

The Taliban have typically dealt with internal differences behind the scenes, and Mr. Haqqani’s comments “are a major escalation,” said Michael Kugelman, the deputy director of the Asia program and senior associate for South Asia at the Wilson Center.

As a prominent leader within the Haqqani Network, which has played a pivotal role in the Taliban’s rise, his elimination serves to destabilise the Taliban’s internal structure.

In January this year, the Indian embassy in Abu Dhabi even invited Badruddin Haqqani, a prominent Taliban figure serving as the charge d’affaires of the Afghan embassy in the UAE, to attend India’s Republic Day celebrations.

Based on NDS’s statement, Faroqqi had steady ties with Haqqani and Taliban terrorist networks.

Haqqani agrees to a cease fire, but he expects Saul to hold up his end of the bargain.

It has augmented Afghanistan's instability by providing intelligence, weapons, and protection to the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network.

According to Haqqani terrorist members 25 Pakistanis was killed on the same day.

From September 21-23, Sheikh Mehmet Adil al-Haqqani, the spiritual leader of the Haqqanniya-Naqshbandiyya Sufi order, for the first time paid a historic visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Haqqani added, "Pakistan's refusal to accept every Pakistani citizen deported from the US is not new.

In this context, the release of the Haqqani’s members not only shows the closeness of the two groups but also points towards the former’s role in Afghan politics.

January 22, 2015: Pakistan’s interior ministry includes the JuD and the Haqqani network on a list of banned outfits as part of a move towards the execution of the National Action Plan against terrorism.

Shifting political dynamics in the region – and abroad, in the United States – Haqqani says, mean the world's second-largest Muslim-majority country will soon confront a choice with regard to its alliances, too.

The prisoners were identified by Ghani as Anas Haqqani, Haji Mali Khan and Hafiz Rashid.

They entered Afghanistan in October 2012 and were kidnapped days later by members of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network.

American officials have repeatedly demanded that the Pakistanis take action against the Haqqani network, but Pakistani officials deny that the militants have any organized presence inside the country.

Among those now holed up in Kurram is the Haqqani network, an ally of the Afghan Taliban that America says the Pakistani army is shielding.

But others were more cautious, warning that the and its brutal arm the Haqqani Network could launch attacks on behalf of the Islamic State group, which they are believed to have done previously.

General Mohammad Radmanesh, a spokesperson for the Afghan Ministry of Defense, told VOA the Haqqani network, a U.S.-designated terror group, has been carrying out attacks under the name of the IS terror group.