Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry has pressed Pakistan to take action against militant sanctuaries on its territory. He said the two countries had agreed on a series of steps to get their relationship back on track in the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden in a covert US operation. Kerry, is the first senior American official to visit Pakistan since the Al Qaida chief was killed in Abbottabad on the 2nd of May. Following his meetings with President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Kerry said he had received assurances of cooperation and there is a need to flush the terrorists out.