The elements of organised crime and using the Haqqani network in Afghanistan and Pakistan

The creation of the Haqqani Network can be tied back to the 1990s, as a resistance group closely associated with the Mujahideen resistance to fight back against the soviet controlled Afghanistan. While it is easy to categorize the Haqqani network as one of criminal insurgency, or an uprising that doesn’t reach the level of a revolution, it is important to consider that the Mujahideen and Haqqani network were receiving weapons and funds from the US were being distributed to the Haqqani network...