The US has slapped sanctions on Badruddin Haqqani, a commander of Pakistan-based Haqqani network. The sanctions have been imposed in a bid to check the flow of financial and other aid to him. With these sanctions, allproperty subject to US jurisdiction in which Badruddin Haqqani has any interest is blocked and US persons are prohibited from engaging in any transactions with him. However, State Department spokesman, Mark Toner, said that at this point there are no plans to designate the Haqqani network, an al-Qaeda-linked group, as a foreign terrorist organisation.