Haqqani says US aid to Pakistan crucial to protect world from terrorism

October 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pakistan's envoy to the US, Hussain Haqqani, has said the Kerry-Lugar Bill has no provision to restrict Islamabad's nuclear programme. However, he added, that the bill prevents Pakistan from being part of any outward proliferation.

September 29th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Amid the growing discontent over the conditions attached with the Kerry-Lugar aid bill in the country, Pakistan's Ambassador to the US, Hussain Haqqani has said that the US' policies could not be altered. "The US was the sole super power of the contemporary world and it was not possible for any country to influence its polices.

August 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A list released by the local government of Washington, D.C. has placed Pakistan's Ambassador Husain Haqqani among tax defaulters for failing to pay tax on an apartment he owned in the US capital.

July 15th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan government may have announced an all out war against the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud in South Waziristan,but it has so far failed to bring the important Taliban leader Jalaluddin Haqqani on its side as part of its strategy to isolate the warlord, the BBC reports. While Pakistan Air Force's fighter jets continue to pound suspected hideouts of the Taliban in South Waziristan, every step to garner support of Haqqani, a key Afghan leader, has failed.

July 3rd, 2009 KABUL - Taliban representatives have said that the American soldier kidnapped by them has been sold to a local insurgent group, and added that they will release a video to prove their claim. Military officials said low-level militants in Afghanistan's Patika province nabbed the soldier and reportedly "sold" him to members of the Haqqani network, a hard-line terror group with ties to the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden.

May 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pakistan has said that it is ready to phase out its nuclear weapons if India too agrees to do the same. Terming Pakistan's nuclear arsenal as a 'deterrent' against India, Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States, Hussain Haqqani said Islamabad is willing to ink an accord with New Delhi in order to destroy the nukes possessed by the two neighboring countries.

May 2nd, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan's Ambassador to US Husain Haqqani has said that US CENTCOM chief General David Petraeus did not made any comments suggesting that the next two weeks are critical for the Pakistan Government's survival. Haqqani said that after media splashed reports about General Petraeus' comments, he had talks with the CENTCOM chief who denied giving any such statement.

April 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pakistan has expressed its unhappiness over the 'stringed' US aid, terming the conditions put under the new AFPAK policy as 'intrusive'. Addressing delegates at the Washington think-tank, the Atlantic Council, with his Afghan counterpart, Pakistan's envoy to the United States Hussain Haqqani said America must understand the root cause of extremism in the region.

April 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - There is no comparison between the additional aid being offered to Pakistan and Afghanistan by the Obama administration, and the bail-out package for tackling the economic meltdown in America, said Pakistan's envoy to the United States Hussain Haqqani. "The US's economic packages for Pakistan keep no status in comparison with the bailout package sought for US itself to tackle ongoing global economic meltdown in America," The News quoted Haqqani, as saying.

April 5th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pakistan is concerned with the US President Barack Obama's idea of forming new contact group including India on Afghanistan and Pakistan, and has said that it will raise the issue during the US Special Envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke's forthcoming visit to the country. "We will talk to our American interlocutors.

March 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani has welcomed the new US anti-terrorism by saying the plan has better prospects to deliver than the previous military-focused unilateral approach. "I think the chances of this strategy (announced by US President Barack Obama on Friday) working are far better than the purely military strategy of the past.

March 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pakistan and Afghanistan have hailed the US President Barack Obama's new plans to root out extremists. Both the countries have pledged to extend cooperation to the U.S in this endeavour.

March 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pakistan's Ambassador to the US, Hussain Haqqani, has outrightly rejected suggestions that the US played a role in the latest political solution in Islamabad. Haqqani said that US as an ally might have concerns over Pakistan's emanating internal situation, but it had no role in the internal politics of Pakistan.

March 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The political crisis in Pakistan had the international community worried, and the United States particularly was alarmed over the turmoil as it tried to resolve the issue by threatening to stop the aid it has been providing for long. The United States not only warned about a check on the assistance being provided, but it also has serious concerns about the Zardari government's ability to fight terrorism.

March 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Following fears that the United States might cut off aid and assistance to Pakistan if political instability prevails, Pakistan's Ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani, has expressed hope that the Obama administration's help to the country would remain unaffected despite the turmoil. "The United States support and aid should be for the Pakistani people and should remain unaffected by developments in domestic politics.