Deadline looms: US pressuring Haqqani network

We’ve been pretty clear for a long time that the US policy is to put pressure on the Haqqani network: Patrick Ventrell

WASHINGTON: The United States is keeping up pressure on the Pakistan-linked Haqqani network, a US official said on Wednesday, days ahead of a congressional deadline on whether to designate it a terrorist group. “We’ve been pretty clear for a long time that the US policy is to put pressure on the Haqqani network,” acting US State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell told journalists. “That includes both the sanctions we have already disclosed, but also military pressure as well.” US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said she will meet an obligation to decide by Sunday whether the Haqqani should be considered terrorists.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 6^th, 2012.