The United States will designate the Pakistan-based Haqqani network, accused of some high-profile attacks, as a terrorist group, the U.S. State Department said on Friday.

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US-led coalition forces have weakened the Taliban in Afghanistan, but terrorist safe havens in Pakistan and endemic corruption still pose tough challenges, a new Pentagon report says.

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The United States has said that it will continue to press Islamabad to 'squeeze' the al-Qaeda linked Haqqani network, as Afghanistan blamed the Pakistan-based group for the latest brazen attacks in Ka

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.

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President Barack Obama on Thursday voiced concern over Pakistan's military and intelligence links with extremists, observing the US finds this ‘troubling’.

Obama also said that Pakistan should realiz

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Squeezing recalcitrant ally Pakistan, the United States has put on its terrorist list five associates of the Haqqani Network branded as a ‘veritable arm’ of the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence (

Keeping up the pressure on Islamabad to act against Haqqani network's safe havens in Pakistan, the US has warned that it would act on its own as it did against Osama bin Laden hiding in Pakistan.

Pakistan will not take military action against the Haqqani network despite growing US pressure, even as the country's top military commanders have agreed on the need to de-escalate the situation, according to media reports on Monday.

Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has contended that the US should share the blame for the rise of the Haqqani network as the CIA created the Taliban faction during the Soviet occupation of