In a strongly-worded article in The Hill, US expert Arthur Herman has written that it is time (for the USA) to pull the plug on the toxic relationship with Pakistan.
Essentially, Pakistani journalist used a 2012 news about a Haqqani Network terrorist being removed from the blacklist after he was declared dead to claim the Islamist group itself has been removed from the blacklist.
Reports citing diplomatic sources said that Pakistan wanted the SAARC Chair Nepal to guarantee that the former Afghanistan government led by Ashraf Ghani will not represent the country at the SAARC meeting.
Since the inception of the Taliban, Pakistan has been its principal benefactor, extending emotional, moral, financial and tactical support to the terror outfit