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British police may want to interview the Pakistani suspects being held in India over the Mumbai terror attacks, a Government source has said.

It emerged the UK is keen to quiz the sole surviving gunman to secure intelligence on the workings of extremist groups.

It came to light as Gordon Brown arrived in Islamabad for talks with Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari.

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PM pledges anti-terror cash
The UK will give Pakistan £6m more in funding and technology to eradicate terrorism in the wake of the attacks in India, PM Gordon Brown has said.

Mr Brown said three-quarters of the most serious terrorist plots investigated by the British authorities have links to al-Qaeda in Pakistan.

He also said he is sure Pakistan-based group Lashkar-e-Taiba was responsible for the Mumbai attacks.

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Three quarters of the most serious terrorist plots being investigated by the UK authorities are linked to Pakistan, Gordon Brown has said. Skip related content
The Prime Minister said it was "time for action not words" in tackling the issue as he emerged from talks with Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari.

Promising a £6 million "pact against terror", including anti-car bomb equipment and material to educate people out of becoming extremists, he said: "The aim must be to work together to do everything in our power to cut off terrorism."

Mr Brown, speaking at a joint press conference after the talks, also confirmed that he had told both the Pakistani and Indian leaders that British police may want to question the sole surviving gunman from the Mumbai massacre and other suspects from last month's atrocity in a bid to secure vital intelligence on extremist groups.

Mr Brown flew to Pakistan from New Delhi where he held talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, amid mounting tensions between the neighbours over the Mumbai attacks, which killed at least 170 people including one Briton and two with joint British nationality.

The Prime Minister said that President Zardari had assured him Pakistan will take action against the militants behind last month's terror attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai, who are believed to have come from his country.

Mr Brown said: "Our aim must be to work together to do everything in our power to cut off terrorism, so I have proposed to President Zardari a new UK-Pakistan pact against terror.

"My discussions with President Zardari have reassured me that his authorities are determined to act against those who are behind the Mumbai attacks."

The Prime Minister continued: "Let me just emphasise why we in Britain have an interest in making Pakistan more secure: it is not only because of the great friendship between our two countries and our desire to support president Zardari, but (because) people in Britain know that what can happen in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan can affect directly what happens in the streets of our cities and towns."

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Africans take too many holidays, says Ugandan president
Uganda's president thinks Africans must work harder to develop "super weapons" so that their impoverished continent is no longer dominated by the developed world, a statement from his office said.
We Africans are at the mercy of the developed world who have super weapons that could eliminate us from the face of the world in a whisker of time, but instead of working hard to reduce the technological gap, we are just sitting back," Yoweri Museveni said in the statement received Saturday.

Speaking at the annual State House holiday party, Museveni further accused Africans of taking too many holidays, something he said was fine for workers in wealthy nations, but was inhibiting development in Africa.

"Mr. Museveni noted that nationals of developed countries are in better positions to take leave off their routine duties but not Africans whose countries still need to overcome conditions of underdevelopment and poverty," the statement said.

He specifically complained that Ugandans "waste a lot of valuable time by going on unnecessary leave."

The president, who has ruled the East African country since 1986, then handed out awards to the hardest working members of his state house staff.

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Two Hong Kong Airlines pilots have been sacked after trying to take off from a taxiway rather than the main runway at the city's airport, according to a report.
The pair, an Indonesian captain and Argentinian co-pilot, were only stopped by an alert air traffic controller who saw them speeding on the taxiway and warned them to stop, wrote the Sunday Morning Post.

Their Boeing 737 was carrying 122 passengers and seven crew, the report said.

The flight, bound for Cheongju in South Korea from Hong Kong International Airport, took off after the aborted attempt on September 13.

Taxiways at the airport run the full length of the runways but are narrower, have green lighting and no lights down the centre, the paper said.

The two were dismissed after an investigation by the southern Chinese city's Civil Aviation Department, which recommended improvements to lighting and marking at the airport, one of Asia's busiest.

The pilot told management he was not making a takeoff and was merely travelling at speed, the report said.

Hong Kong Airlines, along with sister airline Hong Kong Express, flies to 30 cities across Asia.

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