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Three quarters of the most serious terrorist plots being investigated by the UK authorities are linked to Pakistan, British prime minister Gordon Brown said today.

Mr Brown said it was “time for action not words” in tackling the issue as he emerged from talks with Pakistani 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.”