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Brown pledges $9m to fight terror
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-12-15 07:38

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown met Pakistan and India's leaders Sunday, pledging more counter-terrorism support and funding in the wake of deadly terror attacks in India.

Brown promised Pakistan new bomb-scanning technology and some $9 million worth of assistance to help fight the causes of extremism. He also said more would be done to share data on terror groups.

Nearly three-quarters of the most serious terror plots investigated by British authorities have links to the Al-Qaeda terror network in Pakistan, Brown said.

Two of the latest plots that lead back to Pakistan have been a trans-Atlantic airliner plot where a group of men were accused of trying to blow up several airliners and the deadly attacks in India's commercial capital of Mumbai late last month.

"This is a chilling reminder that we are all victims of terrorism," Brown said in a joint conference with Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari.