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Pakistan's three-week-old military advance into the Waziristan region along the Afghan border has made "serious inroads against the Taliban militants, but the danger of retaliation remains high," a senior Western diplomat in Islamabad warned on Thursday.

A day after U.S. national security adviser James Jones arrived in Pakistan for talks with civilian and military officials, analysts said the Pakistan' military's advance into Waziristan was the strongest push by the country since it joined the U.S.-led war against Islamic militants.

"We have had unprecedented public support in these operations. Pakistanis were just too tired of the Taliban and wanted their elimination," Interior Minister Rehman Malik told CBS News.

Government officials and Western diplomats warn, however, that it's now vital for the campaign against the Taliban to succeed in targeting Baitullah Mehsud, the Waziristan-based Taliban militant who heads the Paksitani branch of the extremist group.

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