Echoing the campaign pledge of President Barack Obama, his deputy Joseph Biden has said the United States would not hesitate to launch attacks inside Pakistan, if it had actionable intelligence against "high-value" al-Qaeda targets.

"I can say that the President of the United States said during his campaign and in the debates that if there is an actionable target, of a high-level al-Qaeda personnel, that he would not hesitate to use action to deal with that," the Vice=President said in an interview to CBS news.