Islamabad, Apr. 7: The US Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, has claimed that the Taliban’s top leadership is hiding in Pakistan’s Balochistan province.

During a dinner at US Ambassador Anne Patterson’s residence in Islamabad, Admiral Mullen told reporters that the US was targeting Baitullah Mehsud now because he had established strategic links with Al Qaeda.

In affiliation with Al Qaeda, Mehsud facilitated many attacks on NATO forces in Afghanistan during the past year or so, the Daily Times quoted him, as saying.

Washington, Apr. 7: The US State Department has said that the failure of the U. N. Security Council or other international organizations to respond to a weekend rocket launch by North Korea does not signal a "win" for that rogue nation.

According to a Fox News report, State Department spokesman Robert Wood said the international community is working closely on a coordinated response, and the severity of the violation only puts North Korea farther out on a limb by itself.

Washington, Apr 6: US National Security Adviser, Marine General James Jones, wants Pakistan and Afghanistan to help the United States approach moderate Taliban activists who are willing to lay down their arms.

Jones stressed the need for a greater cooperation between Pakistan and Afghanistan in the fight against terrorists, and said that President Barack Obama’s new strategy offers new hope for peace and security in South Asia.

London, Apr. 6: A leaked British Government memo has revealed that airport scanners in the country have been recalibrated to such an "unacceptable" level, that they can’t differentiate between Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and Hollywood actress Winona Ryder.

The faces shown on the scanner have only a 30 per cent likeness to photographs appearing on a passenger’s passport, reports The Telegraph.

London, Apr. 3: American and British dailies have described President Barack Obama's first trip abroad as Head of State as a bag of mixed results, but all in all, not bad for a leader travelling abroad as the head of state for the first time.

According to them, Obama presented himself as the leader of an America that can no longer go it alone.

New Delhi, Apr 3: China and the United States will resume military exchanges that were suspended last November.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said on Thursday that President Hu Jintao and his US counterpart Barack Obama reached the agreement at their first meeting on Wednesday, one day before the G20 summit in London.

“Both sides share a commitment to military-to-military relations and will work for their continued improvement and development,” the White House said in a statement.