Britain stands "shoulder to shoulder" with Pakistan following the latest attacks there in which 39 people died Thursday, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's spokesman said. Brown wrote to President Asif Ali Zardari after militants unleashed coordinated attacks on Pakistani police, storming offices in Lahore and bombing a north-west station to escalate 11 days of carnage.
"Britain stands shoulder to shoulder with Pakistan in the fight against terrorism and extremism," said Brown's spokesman. The simultaneous assaults underscored the power of armed radicals to strike in the heart of Pakistan and the weakness of poorly-equipped security forces, despite promises of a new offensive against the Taliban near the Afghan border. Nuclear-armed Pakistan, which borders Afghanistan and is a key ally in the US-led fight against terror, is reeling from Taliban-linked attacks in which more than 160 people have died since October 5.
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