Melissa Skorka cited in Stanford University's Mapping Militants Project on the Haqqani Network:
'The Haqqani Network (HN) is a Sunni Islamist militant organization operating in the southeastern region of Afghanistan and the northwestern Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan. Renowned mujahideen commander Jalaluddin Haqqani formed the Haqqani Network in the late 1970s...' Read more
http://web.stanford.edu/group/mappingmilitants/cgi-bin/groups/view/363