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When the top secret 'President's Daily Brief' lands on Barack Obama's desk each morning two words will catch
his eye, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Sometimes they will be conflated into the new buzz word in the foreign policy circles - Af-Pak.

Everyone's waiting for the new Af-Pak strategy to be announced. In US foreign policy priorities Af-Pak is rivalled only by Iran. The word is that it has been delayed due to arguments within the administration about whether to begin paying certain groups within the Taliban to stop fighting.

Another issue which needs to be signed off is the extent to which the Obama administration will extend military force inside Pakistan. There are already US special forces inside Pakistan along with personal operating the predator unmanned drones used to conduct air-strikes against targets throughout the North West Frontier. The debate raging behind closed doors is also about whether widen the air-strikes all the way down to the city of Quetta.

The bunkers are freshly dug. The trenches are long and winding.

Peshawar police station has a heavy armed guard

The Russian armoured vehicle at the entrance has four men clasping AK47s sitting astride it. This is no ordinary police station.

The Peshawar police are under pressure and the Mathani police station on the outskirts of the city underlines their mountainous challenges.

We arrive the morning after they have had their latest encounter with militants.

They tell me a large crowd surrounded the police station firing mortars and rockets. The fighting had gone on for two hours.