Zardari-Brown meeting on 16th

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Zardari will meet British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London on September 16 during what is ostensibly a private visit for two days, it is learnt.

The meeting has assumed considerable significance amid talk of ‘new security strategy’ devised by the United States that envisages raids inside Pak territory to hit the alleged Taliban sanctuaries.

These attacks have escalated since the advent of new democratic govt in Pakistan.

Last week, the US commandos landed inside Pakistan border for the first time since the US attack on Afghanistan about seven years ago.

The President is visiting London for admission of her two daughters, Bakhtawar and Asifa. The presence of parents on such occasions is given special importance in British education system.

‘I have to also fill the role of a mother for my children’, Zardari confided to a senior journalist.

Officials here strongly repudiated as ‘preposterous’ media reports that

Zardari has been ‘summoned’ by the UK govt for discussion on the strategy to halt the cross-border movement of Taliban fighters.