PAKISTAN has offered a $US615,000 ($765,000) reward for information leading to the capture, dead or alive, of Taliban head Baitullah Mehsud, currently holed up in the northwest tribal belt.

Two national Urdu-language newspapers and local papers in the northwest city of Peshawar carried an advert offering the 50-million-rupee ($A765,000) reward on Sunday for Mehsud, and other amounts for 10 of his senior militants.

"The government has announced a cash reward for anybody providing authentic information leading to the capture of these (11), dead or alive," said the advertisement.

It then goes on to list the 11 men, along with their bounties.

Fayyaz Tooro, home secretary of the North West Frontier Province, confirmed to AFP that the government had taken out the advert.

Mehsud already has a $US5 million ($A6.2 million) bounty on his head offered by the United States, with the US State Department branding the warlord ``a key al-Qaeda facilitator in the tribal areas of South Waziristan.''