US delighted over fresh operations

WASHINGTON (Agencies) - Top US and Pakistani military officials have met to discuss strategies to contain the growing militant threat along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen said Thursday.

The US Admiral said that he came away from the meeting encouraged that Pakistanis were focused on the problem of militants using the country as a safe haven. But he indicated that he thought Islamabad or Washington could do a better job against the growing threat.

Mullen, who led the US side to the talks this week, also said that Pakistan army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani had stepped up operations to flush out Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants using the border area as a staging point for attacks in Afghanistan.