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US set to blacklist Haqqani Network: report

Dunya News

US officials have been debating the move for a month.

The Obama administration has decided to blacklist the Haqqani network as a terror group and is expected to announce the decision as early as Friday, the New York Times reported.The Times reported late Thursday that supporters of the move had won out, arguing that the designation would help to disrupt the Haqqani networks fund-raising activities in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.The network been accused of launching scores of cross-border attacks on US troops in Afghanistan from strongholds in Pakistans restive northwest, and Washington has demanded that Islamabad do more to deny them safe havens.