Kabul Hotel Attack: NATO blames Haqqani network

The US-led coalition on Thursday blamed the Haqqani network for a deadly attack on a luxury hotel in Kabul, news wire reports said. The coalition also reported that a leader with the Haqqani network suspected of having provided assistance, including weapons, fighters and training, to the gunmen who attacked the Inter-Continental hotel was killed Wednesday night in a precision airstrike. Ismail Jan, the deputy to the senior Haqqani commander inside Afghanistan, and other Haqqani fighters died in the airstrike in Gardez, the provincial capital of Paktia province, the coalition said.



Published in The Express Tribune, July 1^st, 2011.