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    Pakistan Will Not Attack Haqqani Network.....

    http://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-not-a...044823607.html

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's military will not take action against the Haqqani militant group that Washington blames for an attack against its embassy in Kabul, despite mounting American pressure to do so, a Pakistani newspaper reported on Monday.

    "We have already conveyed to the U.S. that Pakistan cannot go beyond what it has already done," the official told the newspaper on condition of anonymity.

    Pakistan denies it supports the Haqqanis and says its army is too stretched battling its own Taliban insurgency to go after the network, which has an estimated 10,000-15,000 fighters.

    Sirajuddin Haqqani, who heads the Haqqani network, says the group no longer needs sanctuaries in Pakistan, and it feels safe operating in Afghanistan.....snip~

    Seems Pakistan is getting bolder and bolder by the day. Plus Mullens is suppose to be stepping down too. Now they have told the Obama Admin they will not go after these guys anymore.

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    Re: Pakistan Will Not Attack Haqqani Network.....

    But they warn us about losing them as an ally. :
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    Dastardly bastids!...

    Canadian hostage Joshua Boyle says Taliban killed daughter
    Sat, 14 Oct 2017 - Joshua Boyle says captors also raped his wife, during their five-year Afghan kidnap ordeal.
    A Canadian held hostage by the Taliban has spoken of the group's "stupidity and evil", revealing they murdered his daughter and raped his wife. Joshua Boyle spoke to reporters after landing in Canada with his wife Caitlan Coleman and children following almost five years in captivity. They were captured while reportedly backpacking in Afghanistan in 2012. Ms Coleman's father has said the decision to visit the dangerous country was "unconscionable". Both sets of parents have previously questioned why the couple were in Afghanistan in the first place. "What I can say is taking your pregnant wife to a very dangerous place is to me and the kind of person I am, is unconscionable," Jim Coleman told ABC News following their rescue on Wednesday. "I can't imagine doing that myself. But, I think that's all I want to say about that."

    However, Mr Boyle told reporters at Toronto's Pearson International Airport the couple had been trying to deliver aid to villagers in a part of the Taliban-controlled region "where no NGO, no aid worker, and no government" had been able to reach when they were kidnapped. Ms Coleman was heavily pregnant at the time with their first child. This week, they returned with three children, all born in captivity, the youngest of whom is understood to be in poor health. In his statement, Mr Boyle appeared to suggest they had had a fourth child, a baby girl who had been killed by their captors, the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network, as he also revealed they had raped his wife.

    It was, he said, "retaliation for my repeated refusal" to accept an offer made to him by the network. "The stupidity and the evil of the Haqqani network in the kidnapping of a pilgrim... was eclipsed only by the stupidity and evil of authorising the murder of my infant daughter," he said. "And the stupidity and evil of the subsequent rape of my wife, not as a lone action by one guard, but assisted by the captain of the guard and supervised by the commandant." The family were finally rescued by the Pakistani army after a US tip-off during an operation near the Afghan border.

    Initial reports suggested Mr Boyle had refused to board a US military flight out of Pakistan. Mr Boyle was once married to a woman who espoused radical Islamist views and is the sister of a former Guantanamo Bay inmate, Omar Khadr. CNN suggested he might fear prosecution by the US authorities. But Mr Boyle rubbished the reports after arriving in Canada. He said the family were looking to put their terrible ordeal behind them and the couple were now hoping "to build a secure sanctuary for our three surviving children to call a home".

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41620131

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    Re: Pakistan Will Not Attack Haqqani Network.....

    I'm done with these jokers. They're useless. They don't even have oil. Let them topple. They militant Islam branch will probably nuke themselves considering their incompetency, or let them go after India and get crushed. Not our problem.

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    Re: Pakistan Will Not Attack Haqqani Network.....

    Quote Originally Posted by Conlette View Post
    I'm done with these jokers. They're useless. They don't even have oil. Let them topple. They militant Islam branch will probably nuke themselves considering their incompetency, or let them go after India and get crushed. Not our problem.
    I agree with you. I would tell them to STFU or I would just put a big hole in the ground with a sign saying this is where Pakistan use to be. They act like we can't get around using them to supply the troops. They need to try smelling what American Coffee smells like. Logistics would be difficult. Not impossible and yes it would cost us more. But we wouldn't need the Pakis at all.

    Lindsey Graham was talking some major $#@! against Pakistan. As In hey we will jack that azz. >
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    Raped in front of her son...

    Mom held captive by Taliban says she was raped, beaten for trying to protect kids
    November 20, 2017 | A Pennsylvania woman kidnapped by Taliban-linked militants and held captive for five years says she was beaten and raped while trying to protect her kids from the brutes, according to a report.
    Caitlan Coleman Boyle, 31, of Stewartstown, was pregnant when she and her husband, Joshua Boyle, 34, were kidnapped in Afghanistan in 2012 by the Haqqani group and taken to Pakistan. She had another son and a daughter while in captivity and said Boyle delivered both by flashlight as she quietly labored in pain. Caitlan told ABC News that some of their guards “hated children” and would target their eldest son for beatings, claiming he was “making problems” or being “too loud.” When Caitlan tried to intervene, she also was pummeled. “I would get beaten or hit or thrown on the ground,” Caitlan told the network.

    Her Canadian husband said she suffered serious injuries while trying to prevent the extremists from harming their children. “She had a broken cheekbone,” Joshua said. “She actually broke her own hand punching one of them. She broke her fingers, so she was very proud of that injury.” Caitlan said her captors put something in her food to force a miscarriage of their unborn daughter, whom the couple named Martyr Boyle. She also said that two men raped her as punishment for trying to report the crime to their superiors. “They just kept saying that this will happen again if we don’t stop speaking about the forced abortion, that this happened because we were trying to tell people what they had done, and that it would happen again,” Caitlan said.

    She said she successfully hid her next two pregnancies as the family was moved around Pakistan’s tribal belt. Joshua, who said he was kept shackled during their captivity, said the family was usually held in a single room, often underground, where the kids would play with discarded items. “We would just teach them to use things like bottle caps or bits of cardboard, garbage essentially, but what we could find to play with,” Caitlan said. She said they taught their eldest son the alphabet, geography and constellations. They also used the tale of the execution of Charles I in 1649 to make up a game about beheadings, to allay the boy’s fears should their captors do the same to his parents. “He certainly knew that this type of thing could happen to his family, so he had great fun pretending to be Oliver Cromwell chasing Charles I around and trying to behead him,” she said. “So we made it a game so that he wasn’t afraid because there was, you know, there was nothing we could do if it came to that except try to make him less afraid,” shed added.

    The physical abuse of the family increased when the Haqqani Network demanded that Joshua join it as the group’s western propagandist. “They had come four different times — to offer employment in the group… and I made it very clear that I’d rather be the hostage than be on ‘your side of the cage.’” Joshua said. “I’d rather be inside than outside.” But his refusal carried severe consequences. “There were beatings. There was violence. Then they’d come to make the offer again. Still said no. More beatings, more violence. Maybe that’ll be the solution. Still no,” Joshua said. “And after the final time — that’s when they killed our daughter. And after that there were no more intimations of recruitment.”

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    Re: Pakistan Will Not Attack Haqqani Network.....

    http://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-turns...114448859.html






    Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani talks with China's Public Security Minister

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan warned the United States on Tuesday to stop accusing it of playing a double game with Islamist militants and heaped praise on "all-weather friend" China.

    Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, speaking exclusively to Reuters, said any unilateral military action by the United States to hunt down militants of the Haqqani network inside Pakistan would be a violation of his country's sovereignty.

    Since Mullen's comments, Pakistan has launched a diplomatic counter-attack and attempted to drum up support from its strongest ally in the region, China. Pakistani officials have been heaping praise on China since its public security minister arrived in Islamabad on Monday for high-level talks.

    Gilani said Washington did not help itself when it struck a deal on civilian nuclear cooperation with India, not Pakistan.

    Much of the Pakistani public believes that since the end of the Cold War, the United States has tilted toward India, which has fought three wars with Pakistan since the violent partition of the subcontinent in 1947.

    In a demonstration of that distrust, hundreds turned out on Tuesday for anti-American rallies in Pakistani cities.....snip~

    Now the Pakis run to China.....they call them their All Weather Friend. All within a week. This is a slap in our face. Time to tell the Pakis, we are done. No more Aid. Ask your All Weather Friend for the money. >

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    Founder Of Much-Feared Haqqani Network Dies At 72...

    Taliban Announce: Founder Of Much-Feared Haqqani Network Dies At 72




    September 4, 2018 - Rumors have circulated for years regarding the death of Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the militant Haqqani network, who had close ties to the Taliban and al-Qaida.​​

    Haqqani hadn't been heard from in years, and in 2015 reports of his death were widespread. Those earlier reports were never confirmed.

    The Taliban on Tuesday released a statement announcing that Haqqani had died after a long illness at the age of 72.

    As reported by multiple news organizations, the Taliban statement read: "Just as he endured great hardships for the religion of Allah during his youth and health, he also endured long illness during his later years."




    In this 1998 file photo, Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the militant group the Haqqani network, speaks during an interview in Pakistan. The Taliban say Haqqani, an ex-U.S. ally turned enemy, died Monday. He was 72.



    Haqqani died Monday inside Afghanistan, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
    Haqqani had been ill and bed-ridden for several years. The AP reports he had Parkinson disease and had been paralyzed for the past 10 years. "Because of his infirmity, Haqqani's network has been led by his son Sirajuddin Haqqani, who is also deputy head of the Taliban. Considered the most formidable of the Taliban's fighting forces, the Haqqani network has been linked to some of the more audacious attacks in Afghanistan," the AP reports.


    ​​ Haqqani founded the network in the 1970s, and was a guerrilla leader who battled Soviet troops in the 1980s when they occupied Afghanistan. Haqqani was called a freedom fighter by President Reagan. In 2012 the United States declared the Haqqani network a terrorist organization.


    https://www.npr.org/2018/09/04/64443...ork-dies-at-72

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    Re: Pakistan Will Not Attack Haqqani Network.....

    Quote Originally Posted by Midwest Media Critic View Post
    http://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-turns...114448859.html






    Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani talks with China's Public Security Minister

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan warned the United States on Tuesday to stop accusing it of playing a double game with Islamist militants and heaped praise on "all-weather friend" China.

    Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, speaking exclusively to Reuters, said any unilateral military action by the United States to hunt down militants of the Haqqani network inside Pakistan would be a violation of his country's sovereignty.

    Since Mullen's comments, Pakistan has launched a diplomatic counter-attack and attempted to drum up support from its strongest ally in the region, China. Pakistani officials have been heaping praise on China since its public security minister arrived in Islamabad on Monday for high-level talks.

    Gilani said Washington did not help itself when it struck a deal on civilian nuclear cooperation with India, not Pakistan.

    Much of the Pakistani public believes that since the end of the Cold War, the United States has tilted toward India, which has fought three wars with Pakistan since the violent partition of the subcontinent in 1947.

    In a demonstration of that distrust, hundreds turned out on Tuesday for anti-American rallies in Pakistani cities.....snip~

    Now the Pakis run to China.....they call them their All Weather Friend. All within a week. This is a slap in our face. Time to tell the Pakis, we are done. No more Aid. Ask your All Weather Friend for the money. >

    Yes absolutely, that is the last straw. Completely ridiculous. China is your friend for now because you aren't helping to attack them. Try that with China and see how it turns out for you. Time to leave them...China will look after the radicals and if not India will. We don't need to spend any more time with those backstabbers.

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    Taliban control the Haqqani's...

    Haqqanis mulling peace talks with US under Taliban
    Wed, Nov 14, 2012 - The Haqqani network, seen as the most lethal insurgent faction in Afghanistan, would take part in peace talks with the US, but only under the direction of their Afghan Taliban leaders, a top faction commander said yesterday.
    The rare flexibility exhibited by an Afghan militant commander was accompanied by a warning that the Haqqanis would keep up pressure on Western forces with high-profile attacks and would pursue their goal of establishing an Islamic state. The Haqqanis, who operate out of the unruly border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan, say they are part of the Afghan Taliban and must act in unison in any peace process. The commander, who declined to be identified, accused the US of being insincere in peace efforts and trying to divide the two organizations. “However, if the central shura, headed by Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, decided to hold talks with the United States, we would welcome it,” he said by telephone from an undisclosed, referring to the militants’ leadership council.

    The Taliban said in March they were suspending nascent peace talks with the US. A senior Afghan official closely involved with reconciliation efforts said last week the government had failed to secure direct talks with the Taliban and no significant progress was expected before 2014. The US designated the Haqqani network a terrorist organization in September, a move its commanders said proved Washington was not sincere about peace efforts in Afghanistan. Last week, the UN Security Council imposed sanctions on the Haqqanis. Isolating the group, who were blamed for the 18-hour attack on embassies and parliament in Kabul in April, could complicate efforts to secure peace at a time when Afghans fear another civil war could erupt after Western forces withdraw.

    The Haqqani network may prove to be US President Barack Obama’s biggest security challenge as he tries to stabilize Afghanistan before most NATO combat troops withdraw from Afghanistan in 2014. The group’s experience in guerrilla fighting dating back to the anti-Soviet war in the 1980s and its substantial financial network, could make it the ultimate spoiler of peace efforts. A report in July by the Center for Combating Terrorism said the Haqqanis ran a sophisticated financial network, raising money through kidnapping, extortion and drug trafficking, but also have a legitimate business portfolio that includes import/export, transport, real estate and construction interests in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Gulf.

    The commander said the Haqqani network was pleased about Obama’s re-election, predicting he would be demoralized by battlefield losses and pull out US forces earlier than expected. “From what we see on the ground, Obama would not wait for 2014 to call back his forces,” the commander said. “They suffered heavy human and financial losses and are not in a position to suffer more,” he said, adding that he and his men were looking ahead to victory. “We will install a purely a Islamic government, which would be acceptable to all the people,” the commander said.

    http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worl.../14/2003547679

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