WASHINGTON - Mounting pressure on the Obama administration, the Congress has passed a resolution seeking to designate the Haqqani network as a foreign terrorist organization.
On Friday, the Senate unanimously passed a resolution urging the State Department to declare the Haqqani network as a foreign terrorist organization within one month of legislation being signed into law.

The Haqqani Network Terrorist Designation Act of 2012 was passed by the House of Representatives early this month and in doing so made changes into the version of the bill passed by the Senate last year.
The bill now heads to the White House for being signed into law by President Barack Obama.

"This is a significant development, the House and the Senate have now spoken unanimously that the president should designate the Haqqani Network as a foreign terrorist organization," said Congressman Mike Rogers, chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

He added: "The Haqqanis are engaged in a reign of terror in Afghanistan and the network poses the single largest threat for IEDs our soldiers face in that country. They actively plot and kill US and allied soldiers and routinely harm innocent Afghan civilian men, women and children..."

Rogers applaud the Senate passage of the important bill, urging the president to sign it quickly into law. He blamed the Haqqani network for killing and injuring hundreds of US servicemen and women in Afghanistan. (Pajhwok)