Brown vows to support Pakistan over terrorism

BRITISH prime minister Gordon Brown pledged yesterday to help Pakistan “break the chain of terror” after holding talks with president Asif Ali Zardari on security in the wake of the Mumbai attacks.

Brown’s visit to Islamabad was the last leg of a tour of South Asia aimed at calming tensions between nuclear-armed Pakistan and India, which have been running high since the attacks last month which left 172 dead.

He said Britain would work with the government in Islamabad to ensure that terrorists were denied safe havens in Pakistan, pledging £6 million (€6.69m) to help it tackle militancy.