Lahore, Mar. 4 : A report in the Foreign Policy magazine has warned the United States to get prepared for an `unwelcome contingency' of military regime which may return to rule Pakistan, by formulating a list of its highest-priority demands for any new military regime, including a timeline and plans for Pakistan's return to constitutional democracy.

The Obama administration's effort to bring in a new strategy for Afghanistan may not yield desire results due to the prevailing political uncertainty in neighbouring Pakistan.

Washington, Mar. 4 : The United States President, Barack Obama has said that both the US and Britain are concerned about the safe havens that exist for terrorists inside Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Addressing a press conference following his meeting with British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, Obama said that despite the cohesive efforts of Washington and London in the `War on Terror', the situation in Afghanistan has worsened.

He also said that the north-western tribal region of Pakistan still remains a breeding ground of Al-Qaeda.

Washington, Mar. 4 : US President Barack Obama has reaffirmed his country's special relationship with Britain, by highlighting his own mother's British heritage and pledging that the bond would "only get stronger" during his presidency.

According to The Telegraph, Obama sitting informally alongside British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the Oval Office; described the United Kingdom as one of America's "closest and strongest allies" and said the link between the countries "will not break."

Washington, Mar. 4 : US President Barack Obama on Tuesday said that his letter to Moscow did not speak off a trade-off to reduce threats from a nuclear-capable Iran, but focused on the issue of a missile defense shield in Europe.

Obama denied floating any "quid pro quo" with Russia over junking a missile defense shield that Moscow opposes in exchange for Russia''s help in stopping Iran from building nuclear weapons.

Washington  - US President Barack Obama said Tuesday preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon would diminish the need for the United States to base a missile-defence system in Eastern Europe.

Obama commented on the planned deployment after The New York Times reported that he sent a secret letter to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev conveying his position. But Obama downplayed suggestions that he would give up the system in return for a stronger commitment from Russia in confronting Iran.

Washington, Mar 3: US President Barack Obama sent a secret letter to his Russian counterpart Dmitri A. Medvedev three weeks ago, suggesting suggesting that he would back off deploying a new missile defense system in Eastern Europe if Moscow would help stop Iran from developing long-range weapons.

The letter to President Medvedev was hand-delivered in Moscow by top Obama Administration officials three weeks ago, the New York Times quoted American officials, as saying.