ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Britain have concluded an agreement to strengthen co-operation to combat terrorism.
The agreement, which also includes co-operation to combat narcotics, illegal immigration and organised transnational crime, will be operationalised through working group set up under Pakistan's Ministry of the Interior and British Home Office.
According to a joint declaration following discussions between President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Tony Blair in Lahore on Sunday, the first meeting of the working group will be held in January.
The Pakistan Anti-Narcotics Forces are to get two MI 17 helicopters from Britain for use in anti-smuggling operation, particularly along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. The British Prime Minister, thanking President Musharraf for "Pakistan's important role" in helping to foil the Heathrow bomb plot in August 2006, has also offered him the U.K.'s full support in countering terrorism, including the exchanges on forensic training, investigating the financing of terrorism, and the sharing of crisis management expertise."
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