US offers $30 million in search for Haqqani leaders

The United States has pledged thirty million dollars in return for information on key leaders of the Haqqani network, blamed for numerous attacks in Afghanistan. 

The State Department has authorised rewards up to five million dollars each for information leading to the location of Aziz Haqqani, Khalil al-Rahman Haqqani, Yahya Haqqani, and Abdul Rauf Zakir. 

It also increased its previous reward offer of up to five million dollars for information on the group's leader, Sirajuddin Haqqani, to ten million dollars. 

The State Department added that the group is allied with al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban and cooperates with other terrorist organisations in the region. 

It said, Pakistan-based Haqqani network was the most lethal insurgent group targeting the US-led NATO coalition and Afghan personnel in Afghanistan.

Source: ALJAZEERA