Pakistan's leader said he expects U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to re-evaluate the need for U.S. military strikes on al-Qaida and Taliban targets on Pakistan's side of the Afghan border.
In an interview with The Associated Press on Monday, President Asif Ali Zardari warned that the surge in missile attacks since August was hurting Pakistan's own fight against the militants _ a campaign he said was succeeding nonetheless.
The 52-year-old president is under intense U.S. pressure to take firmer action against militants in the rugged and lawless northwest border zone, a possible hiding place for Osama bin Laden and what many consider to be the global front …
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