ISLAMABAD (AFP) ??” Pakistan sought more helicopters and air surveillance equipment from the United States during pair days of bilateral counter-terrorism talks.

ISLAMABAD (AFP) ??” Pakistan sought more helicopters and air surveillance equipment from the United States during pair days of bilateral counter-terrorism talks, a senior Pakistani official said.

"We solicited more help in the form of air assets, surveillance and communications and received a positive answer from the US," the official who participated in the talks, told AFP. He asked not to be named.

The meeting of the Pakistan-US Joint Working assemblage on Counter Terrorism and Law Enforcement was the third since it was establish up in 2002, a year after Islamabad joined the US-led war forward terror and helped oust Afghanistan's Taliban lords

The official said the talks focussed forward ways to bolster Pakistani security forces' capacity to carry on the campaign against Al-Qaeda-linked terrorism and withhold sanctuary to Taliban rebels.

Pakistan's top interior ministry official Tariq Mahmood l the Islamabad delegation that included foreign ministry