Top of the Hour: Pakistan Militants Were Behind Hotel Attack, Morning Headlines

The Takeaway

Coalition forces in Afghanistan say that Pakistan’s militant, Al-Qaeda-linked  Haqqani network facilitated the attack on Tuesday on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul that left at least 21 people dead. A spokesman for Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry says the attackers entered Afghanistan from Pakistan. Meanwhile, NATO says that a senior commander involved in planning the attack has been killed in an airstrike in Southeast Pakistan.  

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