The US has unveiled its new Af-Pak strategy mainly focusing on Pakistan. The plan aims at disrupting, dismantling and defeating the al-Qaeda network in Pakistan and degrading any ability they have to launch global terrorist attacks. Outlining efforts to hunt down and defeat the al-Qaeda terrorists operating from safe havens in the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, the three-page unclassified draft document was placed in Congress by top officials of the Obama Administration in Washington. The 46 benchmarks outline how the administration plans to track success in the war against insurgents in Afghanistan and the effort to hunt terrorists inside Pakistan. The second set of goals pertains to Pakistan and includes assistance in efforts to enhance civilian control and stable constitutional government. The third set of objectives applying to Afghanistan include defeating the extremist insurgency, securing the Afghan populace and developing increasingly self-reliant Afghan security forces that can lead the counterinsurgency and counter-terrorism fight with reduced US assistance. For each of these objectives, the Obama Administration has developed a set of metrics to gauge progress toward meeting it.