press release, "[t]he bill includes strengthened restrictions on assistance for Pakistan by conditioning all funds to the Government of Pakistan on cooperation against the Haqqani network, al Qaeda, and other terrorist organizations, with a waiver, and funding based on achieving benchmarks." On 7 September 2012, the Obama administration blacklisted the group as a foreign terrorist organization. The decision was mandated by Congress and was a source of debate within the administration. On 5 November 2012, the United Nations Security Council added the network to a blacklist of Taliban-related groups. On 9 May 2013, the government of Canada listed it as a terror group. In March 2015, the UK proscribed the Haqqani network as a terror group. On 25 August 2015, Abdulaziz Haqqani was sanction as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist with a reward of up to $5 million USD for information regarding his location. Attempts to negotiate US officials confirmed that they held preliminary talks during the summer of 2011 with representatives of the militant network at the request of the ISI. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the US had reached out to the Haqqanis to gauge their willingness to engage in a peace process and that "Pakistani government officials helped to facilitate such a meeting." The New York Times reported that talks secretly began in late August 2011 in the United Arab Emirates between a midlevel American diplomat and Ibrahim Haqqani, Jalalludin's brother. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, head of the ISI, brokered the discussion, but little resulted from the meeting. References Further reading External links The Haqqani Network (PDF), by Jeffrey A. Dressler, Institute for the Study of War Haqqani Network, GlobalSecurity.org Haqqani Network, Institute for the Study of War Sirajuddin Haqqani, Rewards for Justice Program Haqqanis: Growth of a militant network, BBC News, 14 September 2011 Q&A: Who are the Haqqanis?, Reuters Haqqani Network Financing: The Evolution of an Industry – The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, July 2012 The Haqqani History: Bin Ladin's Advocate inside the Taliban – National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book, 11 September 2012 Anti-Soviet factions in the Soviet–Afghan War Islamist groups Islamic terrorism in Afghanistan Jihadist groups in Afghanistan Jihadist groups in Pakistan Organizations based in Asia designated as terrorist Organizations designated as terrorist by Canada Organizations designated as terrorist by the United States Organisations designated as terrorist by the United Kingdom