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India-Pakistan
White House Urges Pakistan to Keep Haqqani on Heels
2014-07-27
[Tolo News] The U.S. government has urged Pak leaders to protect gains made during counter-insturgent operations along the border region with Afghanistan over the past month and prevent the infamous Haqqani Network from entrenching itself there once again.

The report on communications between Washington and Islamabad acme from White House National Security Council member Jeffrey Eggers on Friday.

In June, the Pak military launched a series of operations throughout the Norther Wazoo tribal belt region that borders Afghanistan. The region is known to be a hotbed of hard boyz and terrorist groups that have targeted Afghan and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
forces across the border.

Afghan officials have been skeptical about the operations launched by Islamabad, with some suggesting they are just putting on a show to convince the international community that Pakistain does not harbor groups like the Haqqani Network, which is considered one of the largest and most sophisticated terrorist groups in the world.

"Pakistain cooperates with the Haqqani Network a lot, and Haqqani mostly targets Afghanistan; the Afghan National Security Forces and ISAF being their priorities," Kabul Police Chief Zaher Zaher said on Saturday.

In Afghanistan, the idea of hard boyz and murderous Moslems basing themselves out of Pakistain is accepted more or less as fact, which is one of the key reasons for frayed relations between the two neighbors over the years.

"The Haqqani Network is a very dangerous network, who have implemented many operations in Afghanistan over past years, but Pakistain has never done anything to destroy them," said military analyst Jawed Kohistan
...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns....
i.

The Afghan government remains highly suspicious of Pak intelligence and military leaders, for the most part believing they are still in cahoots with Taliban and Haqqani leaders calling the shots for the war in Afghanistan from safe havens across the border.

Although Pakistain has maintained the operations it has carried out in Northern Waziristan effectively eliminated much of the terrorist threat in the region, experts in Kabul have argued otherwise.
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