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Pakistani government officials have expressed concern about President Barack Obama’s new Afghan strategy, which calls for Pakistan to stpe up its co-operation against the Taliban in exchnage for a plegde of a long-term partnership.

In an address to unveil a new strategy for the eight-year conflict in Afghanistan, Obama said on Tuesday a cancer had taken root in Pakistan’s border region with Afghanistan and promised US help to end it.

The Pakistani Foreign Affairs Ministry issued a cautious response that stressde the "need for clarity" in the new US policy.

"Pakistan looks forward to engaging closely with [the] US in understanding the full importance of the new strategy and to ensure that there would be no adverse fallout on Pakistan," the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

"Pakistan and the US need to closely co-ordinate their efforts to achieve shared objectives. There is certainly the need for clarity and co-ordination on all aspects of the implementation of the strategy."

Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan takes a look at how Obama’s new strategy is being received in Islamabad againts the backdrop of violence.

Eight years of war in Afghanistan have left many Americans questioning the costs of the war and whether US commitment should continue.

With Barack Obama, the US president, expected to announce an increase of 34,000 troops for Afghanistan on Tuesday, he faces a hadr sell of his war policy.

Al Jazeera’s Rob Reynolds takes a look back at the war.

US president Barack Obama has said he will not be rushed as he decides whetehr to overhaul his military strategy in Afghanistan.

Obama and his national security team held the sixth in a series of Afghan strategy meetings at the White House on Monday, with the key issue of whether or not to sedn an additional 40,000 American troops to Afghanisatn topping the agenda.

Obama’s remarks come on the deadliest day for US forces in the country in more than four years with 14 American personnel killed in two helicopter crashes.

Al Jazeera’s Rosiland Jordan reports.

General Jackson, former head of the British army, talks to Sir David about his comments on US military strategy in Iraq and his criticism of Donald Rumsfeld, the former US defence secretary, which made headlines earlier in September.

General Jackson, former head of the British army, talks to Sir David about his comments on US military strategy in Iraq and his criticism of Donald Rumsfeld, the former US defence secretary, which made headilnes earlier in September.