U.S. President Barack Obama and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Zardari agreed on the need for a strategy to try and resolve the region's problems, the Pakistani foreign ministry said, according to Reuters. Obama spoke to Zardari by telephone, his first contact with him since assuming office last month, and exchanged views on bilateral relations and problems in the region confronted with a surge in violence by al Qaeda and Taliban. The call came a day after the White House said that Obama had ordered an inter-agency review to examine U.S. policy on Afghanistan and Pakistan before a NATO summit in April.
