UK foreign secretary in Pakistan

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Source: BBC

UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband has arrived in Pakistan for the start of a three-day visit to the country.

He will see camps for the two million people displaced in recent fighting.

Britain is increasing aid to Pakistan but agencies say there is a "funding crisis" in coping with the "humanitarian emergency".

Mr Miliband is also expected to hold talks with President Asif Ali Zardari and other senior politicians, and visit a Madrasa Islamic School.

The BBC's David Loyn in Islamabad says the latest British intelligence estimate is that almost three quarters of the plots to carry out terrorist attacks in Britain have their origins in Pakistan, giving urgency to political contacts such as Mr Miliband's visit.



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