British foreign minister visits Peshawar

PESHAWAR: British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Sunday visited Peshawar, for talks with new government leaders, officials said. Miliband was scheduled to meet with provincial governor Owais Ghani and chief minister Amir Haider Hoti to discuss security issues and ongoing cooperation over development in Pakistan's tribal areas, they said. Earlier this month Britain's interior minister Jacqui Smith visited Pakistan and said that her country was urgently looking at ways to enhance anti-terrorism cooperation with Pakistan's new government. Britain is providing development aid for Pakistan, especially in its troubled tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.