Pakistan contends that it can get the Taliban and the Haqqani network to join talks.
"We are both victims, and our heart goes out to our neighbors, " Haqqani said.
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Haqqani says Pakistan's new government, whose leaders believe in fighting terrorists, is building strength.
Amazingly, America has until now not designated the Haqqani network as a terrorist organisation.
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Afghanistan and the US have both accused the ISI of links to the Haqqani network.
The other groups are the Haqqani network and the faction led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur.
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Nor do they set much store by a reported Haqqani-network promise to sever links with al-Qaeda.
The offer to the American administration was made in an unsigned memo, which Mr Haqqani denies writing.
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Futhermore, the insurgency the U.S. is helping Afghanistan contain comes from the Taliban and the Haqqani network.
The truth behind the controversial memo which led to Mr Haqqani's resignation will perhaps never be known.
He claimed to be acting on the instructions of Pakistan's then ambassador to Washington, DC, Husain Haqqani.
In November Mr Haqqani, who was close to Mr Zardari, was fired over the claims, which he denies.
The Afghan security forces were quick to accuse a Pakistan-based Taliban commander, Sirajuddin Haqqani, of plotting the attack.
The BBC's Bilal Sarwary says the restive Gurda Saria district is the ancestral home of the Haqqani network.
To find out how all of these will affect Pakistan's politics and its president, Pervez Musharraf, we called Husain Haqqani.
Mr Haqqani, now said to be bedridden, was a minister for border and tribal affairs when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan.
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However there have been a number of indicators that suggest the latest attacks may also have sprung from the Haqqani network.
Professor HUSAIN HAQQANI (Director, Center for International Relations, Boston University): Good morning.
The U.S. in recent months has put increased pressure on Pakistan to clamp down on insurgent groups, especially the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network.
Senior Taliban figures such as Nasiruddin Haqqani are housed close to ISI headquarters in Islamabad, adds the report, entitled State of the Taliban.
They want Pakistan to be central to any peace deal Mr Karzai may strike with insurgent groups, including Hizb-e-Islami and the Haqqani network.
But the Haqqani network appears to recognise the Taliban leadership, based in the Pakistani city of Quetta, as the authority guiding the insurgency.
One unconfirmed report even had the two generals on one visit bringing Sirajuddin Haqqani, one of the network's leaders, who is on America's most-wanted list.
He also faces the issue of Afghanistan's ongoing insurgency, including the attacks that continue to be carried out by Taliban militants and the Haqqani Network.
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Secretary Clinton, on Wednesday, said the administration is in the final formal review on whether to designate the Haqqani network as a foreign terrorist organization.
Pakistan's new ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, says there is consensus that the judiciary should be restored, but disagreement on how to do it.
Unlike Mr Haqqani, she has neither any experience in the delicate art of international diplomacy nor, being a loyal party person, unqualified support from the Pakistan army.
One of the main theories being investigated by western forces in Afghanistan is that Tuesday's bombing aimed at Shia targets, which killed 58 people, was carried out by the Haqqani network.
Little suggests any direct Pakistani role in Haqqani operations.
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The relationship between this group and the ISI goes back to the Soviet war, when the Pakistanis channelled weapons to its patriarch, Jalaludin Haqqani, who commanded forces in the border area around Tora Bora.
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