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    Haqqani network is a deadly, unfamiliar threat

    by Ann M. Simmons, Los Angeles Times Jan 07, 2018 3 minutes

    When the Trump administration announced this week it was suspending military aid to Pakistan until the country takes more aggressive action against terrorist organizations that have targeted Americans, one of the groups it named was the Haqqani network.

    Compared to other extremist groups, it is unfamiliar to many people in the U.S.

    So who is Haqqani? What is the network? And what are its links to Pakistan?

    Jalaluddin Haqqani was an Afghan warlord and a leader of the insurgency against Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s, when he

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