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The outgoing US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, said the Haqqani network was a veritable arm of the Pakistani intelligence.

He said the US believed the Haqqani group was behind a 20-hour gun battle in central Kabul last week.

White House spokesman, Jay Carney, said Pakistan must break any links it had with the militants, the Haqqani network.

He said Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency supported the truck bombing by Haqqani operatives on a NATO base on September tenth.

Admiral Mike Mullen said the Haqqani Network is a "veritable arm" of the ISI, Pakistan's military intelligence agency.

Mr Haqqani is now an old man, and his son Sirajuddin has taken over most of his work.

Analysts say that, of all the insurgent groups, the Haqqani network has the closest ties to Al Qaeda.

Admiral Mullen said the Haqqani network has deep ties to the Pakistani government.

On Friday, the White House press secretary said Pakistan must break any links it has with the Haqqani network.

Led by Sirajuddin Haqqani, the son of a elderly jihadist warlord, it has been accused of numerous attacks on western civilians and soldiers.

Some of those detained are alleged to have links with the Haqqani militant network and al-Qaeda.

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As one of the factions in Afghanistan the Taliban, "Haqqani Network" members of the border in eastern Afghanistan are frequent.

Mr Haqqani, now said to be bedridden, was a minister for border and tribal affairs when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan.

A famous commander, tribal chief and cleric, Haqqani came to prominence during the war against the Soviets.

The United States' top military officer accused Pakistan of supporting attacks by the al-Qaida-linked Haqqani network.

Speaking to reporters in Islamabad Sunday, Interior Minister Rehman Malik insisted that the Haqqani network is not operating from Pakistan.

Unlike other Taliban, Haqqani's men do not divide their time between farming or working and fighting.

The United States considered "Haqqani Network" organization created the event.

The Haqqani network leadership is based in North Waziristan, in the tribal areas of Pakistan. It has a presence in eastern Afghanistan.

In recent months militants from the region have been linking up with the so-called Haqqani network in the Paktika-Khost-Paktia region.

The Haqqani network is based in Pakistan's North Waziristan province, a tribal area along the border with Afghanistan.

Husain Haqqani denied any involvement in the memo forwarded to America's most senior military officer Admiral Mike Mullen.

Mr Haqqani had once written a book detailing the links between the army and jihadists.

But Ambassador Haqqani rejects the notion that the peace deals fuel militant activity.

For 20 hours groups of attackers from a deadly Taliban ally, the Haqqani network, assaulted three areas of the capital.

Nor do they set much store by a reported Haqqani-network promise to sever links with al-Qaeda.

NATO says such spectacular strikes, many of them perpetrated by the Haqqani network, are actually down from past years.

The veteran Afghan militant Jalaluddin Haqqani is based in North Waziristan.

North Waziristan is also the home base of another veteran Afghan militant, Jalaluddin Haqqani.

The Haqqani network, an insurgent group with ties to the Taliban, is suspected.

Still, U. S. pressure to end support for the Haqqani network is mounting.

The drone campaign has been less successfulagainst the Haqqani than against other groups, especially al-Qaeda.

Or, in the words of Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to America: "We'll muddle through again. "

Bin Laden built his first base - the "Lion's Den" - on Haqqani turf.

June 29, NATO troops killed in air strikes, "Haqqani Network" II leader Ismail Er Jia En.

Haqqani was forced to resign as ambassador in the wake of the memo scandal though he denies the charges as does the government.

"We are Afghans fighting the jihad and defending our country under the leadership of Jalaluddin Haqqani, " the commander said.