India and Pakistan

Zardari expressed the hope that trilateral consultations
among the US, Pakistan and Afghanistan will gather impetus
after the recent presidential election in Afghanistan.

A Downing Street spokesman also said that Zardari and
Brown discussed a number of regional issues, including
Afghanistan.

Britain and its allies fighting in Afghanistan want
maximum cooperation from Pakistan in controlling the border
regions between the two countries.

The Zardari-Brown talks come after 22 guards were killed
by a suicide bomber at a checkpoint in the Khyber Pass in
Pakistan on the border with Afghanistan. The bomber approached
on foot as the guards were breaking their Ramadan fast
yesterday.

Brown recently renewed his warning that three quarters of
terror plots against Britain come from the area, where
Pakistani security forces were fighting the Taliban. PTI
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