Zardari to discuss al Qaeda conflict in Britain

President Asif Ali Zardari will discuss the conflict with Taliban and al Qaeda militants in the northern tribal areas with British leaders this week, officials said on Sunday.

Zardari will meet British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday before heading to New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly session.

“It is a private visit but the president will meet the British prime minister,” foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Sadiq told AFP.

According to state media Zardari would hold talks on “the emerging situation on the troubled Pakistan-Afghanistan border.”

“Pakistan would convey to the Britain that it has done more in the war on terror than others,” the APP quoted Pakistan’s ambassador to London Wajid Shamsul Hassan as saying.