$10mn bounty for information on Haqqani leader: US government

Washington: The US government has offered $30 million as bounty for information to locate leaders of the Haqqani Network that is blamed for attacks on American and NATO forces in Afghanistan. [caption id=“attachment_1225037” align=“alignnone” width=“380”] The site where Haqqani was murdered. AFP. [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1674485” align=“alignnone” width=“380”] US troops are seen in Pakistan’s Waziristan region where the Haqqani network operates. AFP[/caption] The US State Department is posting a reward of $5 million each for information on Aziz Haqqani, Khalil al-Rahman Haqqani, Yahya Haqqani and Abdul Rauf Zakir, while doubling the bounty to $10 million to locate the group’s leader Sirajuddin Haqqani, Xinhua reported. The Haqqani Network has been a foreign terrorist organisation since September 2012. The group operates from both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, and US officials believe it is based in Pakistan’s Waziristan region. IANS