Terrorists will be eliminated -- Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Further terrorist attacks in Pakistan will be met with swift military action, warned Pakistani Foreign Minister Rehman Malik.

Malik said government forces were operating against Taliban insurgents holed up in South Waziristan, saying more action would take place "if needed," Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reports.

South Waziristan is one of the main centers of the Taliban and al-Qaida leadership in Pakistan.

U.S. officials have called on Pakistan to take appropriate measures to control militancy in its own borders.

Islamabad had planned a military intervention into South Waziristan but backed off following the death of Baitullah Mehsud, the head of the Taliban, in an August airstrike by the United States.

Taliban leaders had issued warnings of retribution for the Mehsud assassination following the release of a video on Pakistani television showing the body of Mehsud.

The Taliban took credit for a Monday blast at the offices of the World Food Program in Islamabad, killing five employees of the United Nations.

The situation in Pakistan was the focus of talks between U.S. President Barack Obama and his top national security advisers Wednesday as part of a broader fight against regional terrorism.