[Analysis] It is an important moment in the career of any politician, but for Yousuf Raza Gilani, his first visit to the White House as Pakistan’s prime minister was a crucial opportunity for Washington and Islamabad to exchange views on the “War on Terror.” The United States is increasingly frustrated with the lack of progress in fighting Al-Qa’ida and Taliban forces on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Indeed, on Tuesday reports from the Swat Valley on the frontier suggested Taliban members took 27 security officers hostage. Washington believes that both Pakistan and Afghanistan are spending too much time blaming one another for failing to crack down on the terrorists rather than doing it themselves. For its part, Pakistan is concerned by the U.S.’s ongoing nuclear cooperation with India, and will have found little comfort in the news that the U.S. will upgrade Pakistan’s F-16 jets.