Pakistan sanctions Afghan Taliban, Haqqani Network to evade global financial blacklisting
At a time when Afghan Taliban, the United States and the Ashraf Ghani government of Afghanistan are on the verge of initiating the intra-Afghan dialogue, Pakistan government has issued a statutory notification, ordering the imposition of sanctions on those Afghan Taliban leaders and groups, including the Haqqani Network, who are on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) sanction list.
Aug 22, 2020, 17:56 PM IST