Haqqani – India Chron https://indiachron.com Tue, 21 Sep 2021 13:47:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://indiachron.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/favicon-4-150x150.png Haqqani – India Chron https://indiachron.com 32 32 Taliban leader Baradar’s message after clash looked like hostage video: Report https://indiachron.com/politics/taliban-leader-baradars-message-after-clash-looked-like-hostage-video-report/ Tue, 21 Sep 2021 13:47:03 +0000 https://indiachron.com/taliban-leader-baradars-message-after-clash-looked-like-hostage-video-report A power struggle within the Taliban has badly hurt two key players – Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Baradar and the group’s spiritual leader Halibatullah Akhundzada – UK – based magazine The Spectator reported on Monday. It cited the recent clash during the government formation talks between Baradar and the Haqqani network to say that the former emerged as the “principal loser”.

The chief of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) also threw weight behind the Haqqanis, ensuring that all of the key positions went to Pakistani loyalists, principally from the hardline Haqqani network, The Spectator reported.

The clashes in early September saw “furniture as well as large thermos flasks full of hot green thrown around,” said The Spectator. At one point during the meeting, Haqqani network leader Khalil-ul-Rahman Haqqani rose from his chair and began punching Baradar, The Spectator report said, Baradar had pushed for an “inclusive” cabinet that included non-Taliban leaders and ethnic minorities, which would be more acceptable to the rest of the world.

He disappeared for a while after clashes and resurfaced in Kandahar. He held a meeting of tribal leaders who are supporting him, but was also forced to release a video message on the state-run TV network controlled by the Taliban. The message “looked like a hostage video”, The Spectator reported.

 

]]> Pakistan slaps sanctions on Baradar, Haqqani, other https://indiachron.com/world/pakistan-slaps-sanctions-on-baradar-haqqani-other/ Mon, 06 Sep 2021 04:23:08 +0000 https://indiachron.com/pakistan-slaps-sanctions-on-baradar-haqqani-other The Afghan chief negotiator Abdul Ghani Baradar, who broked the historic peace deal between the US and Taliban in Doha on February 29, 2020, and Haqqani Network’s chief Sirajuddin Haqqani are among the top Taliban leaders that have been slapped with financial sanctions by Pakistan in line with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) obligation.

The statutory notification of the Minister of Foreign Affairs published on August 18th, cited various United Nations Security resolutions under which the states have been directed to apply travel restrictions, arms embargo, travel ban prevent the direct or indirect supply, sale, or transfer to these individuals, group, and to freeze the funds and other financial resources of certain individuals and entities.

“Whereas the Ministry of Foreign Affairs intends to issue S.R.Os containing the consolidated list of all individuals and entities subjects to sanctions under the relevant UN Security Council resolutions, on a quarterly basis and in addition to issuance of regular S.R.Os to reflect updates/changes made by the Committee,” the SRO stated.

It stated that the Federal Government is pleased to order that Resolution 2255(2015) be fully implemented including in particular that individuals and entities listed to this order reflecting the updates made by the Taliban (1988) Senctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council till date, shall stand subjected to the asset freeze, travel ban and arms embargo in accordance with the UNSC resolutions.

As of August 18, 2020, it added that the Taliban (1988) Sanctions Committee has approved the entries subject to the assets freeze, travel ban, and arms embargo.

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