Pakistan sanctions Afghan Taliban, Haqqani Network

ISLAMABAD: At a time when Afghan Taliban, the United States and the Ashraf Ghani government of Afghanistan are on the verge of initiating the intra-Afghan dialogue, Pakistan government has issued a statutory notification, ordering imposition of sanctions on those Afghan Taliban leaders and groups, including the Haqqani Network, who are on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) sanction list.

In the notification, the government has enforced immediate steps including assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo on the Afghan insurgent group, the Haqqani Network.

Government sources confirmed that the step has been taken in compliance with the UNSC sanctions against the group. As per the government source, Section 10 of the statutory notification aka SRO, explained the purpose of issuance of the new SRO which maintained "in exercise of the powers conferred by Section 2 of the United Nation's Security Council Act 1948, the Federal Government is pleased to order that the Resolution 2255 (2015) be fully implemented" in reference to the Taliban leaders and affiliated entities listed in the annexure attached to it. (IANS) 

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