The chief financier of the Taliban-linked Haqqan network, Nasiruddin Haqqani, was gunned down in an apparent assassination on Sunday night (November 10) in Islamabad, Pakistan. Nasiruddin Haqqani, known as the fund-raiser and intermediary for the militant group, was also a son of Jalaluddin Haqqani, who was a veteran guerrilla commander from southeast Afghanistan. — Reuters