US working with Pak to deal with ISI

But, this needs to be a concerted and consistent effort to go after the militants to prevent them from either creating training grounds and safe havens within Pakistan or going into Afghanistan and causing trouble there,” the senior Pentagon official said.

“So there clearly are increased military operations. We’ve seen that. We are pleased by it.

We need to continue to see it and we need to see probably even more robust efforts on the Pakistan’s part,” he added.

He said Pakistan is a key ally in war on terror and asserted that both the countries are trying to confront the common problem of terrorism.