The Haqqani network’s continued presence in Pakistan, as well as recent Taliban advances in Afghanistan, have resulted in a “steady deterioration in U.S.-Pakistan relations over the past year,” explains Daniel Markey, Senior research professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), in an interview with The Cipher Brief. According to Markey, the U.S. and Pakistan do not have a “similar assessment of the threat posed by the Taliban, al Qaeda, and the Haqqani network,” a gap that “thoroughly undermines the likelihood of effective cooperation.”
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